Junction Dance Studio was founded to change the narrative about Dance Studios. We focus on creating a safe and encouraging place to explore all forms of dance. Our studio is a space where dance and creativity combine to create an explosion of expression.
Junction Dance Studio was founded in 2017 by Maryland native Megan Adelsberger. Megan’s dream was to create a dance organization unlike anything she had ever seen before! Her vision involved bridging gaps between age, race, religion, sexual orientation, identity, street and concert styles of dance.
The name “Junction” was inspired by its literal definition of different roads meeting in one place. Our dance studio embodies a variety of backgrounds coming together as one to create pure magic inside the classroom, on stage and within our community.
Junction’s logo made up of the intertwined circle and triangle symbolizes connection through diversity uplifting a perspective of unity.
Junction prioritizes safe and encouraging dance spaces through continued research in early childhood development and equality. Curating a supportive and inclusive environment allows for human connection, healing and the evolution within each artist to truly flourish. Dance is viewed as a sacred experience rooted in gratitude and celebration. Respect for ourselves, one another and to those who have paved the way lends itself to Junction’s thriving morale and reputable presence in the Salt Lake dance scene.
Junction is known for being a multidisciplinary studio that offers several styles of dance classes and programs. Not only do we educate our dancers on the history, culture, musicality and technique of each genre, we also emphasize development in improvisation, freestyle, partnering, choreography and stage performance.
Junction Dance Studio is home to professional companies Junction II & Junction Dance Co. Due to our unique association, students gain direct access to top ranking faculty, guests, performance opportunities, mentors and choreographers within the industry.
At Junction we prioritize internal validation over external and encourage substance vs saturation.
We believe that dance is an art form intended to be expressed rather than to impress. Our intention towards development in our craft is to embrace, celebrate and empower one another.
Constant comparison and ranking of dancers has the potential to tarnish relationships, shift our spirits and place individual value into the hands of others. In order for us to genuinely align with unity, we root our purpose in connection rather than competition.
You guys are amazing. You love your people, you cheer your people on, you are encouraging, positive and uplifting! You are honest and loyal too. I love seeing the support you show to your dancers and everything you teach them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. We love you all.
I have to tell you. Harper came out of dress rehearsal last night in awe of how amazing the show is and getting to be a part of it. She went on forever about what incredible dancers there are and how kind everyone was. Right after school today, she was in costume practicing. I haven’t ever seen her so excited about dance! It’s making my heart do front flips! Thank you for creating such a special place.
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Maryland native Megan Adelsberger began training at Elower-Sicilia Productions and continued to develop her artistry in Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles. She attended The University of the Arts and spent two years traveling the world while performing on Holland America Cruise Ships.
Megan is an accomplished artist and choreographer in both the commercial and concert world of dance. She can be found dancing on So You Think You Can Dance during Season 6 of “Vegas Week” and the LA Results Episode. She was selected for a Nigel Lythgoe Productions T.V. series on Ovation called A Chance To Dance where she had the opportunity to study under Michael Nunn & William Trevitt formerly of The Royal Ballet in addition to David Dorfman of David Dorfman Dance at Jacob’s Pillow.
Megan was featured in a Hallmark film entitled Dear Dumb Diary and has performed live at the Capezio ACE Awards in New York City, Jazz Dance World Congress, and in the 1520 Arts performance of They Reminisce. Megan spent 5 years touring internationally as a company member with Odyssey Dance Threatre and was a producer, director, choreographer, and principle dancer in Urban Fairytalez production of “Who Are You?” Her creative work has been showcased in The Eureka Dance Festival in Washington D.C., RAW Artists Salt Lake City, Creators Grid, Usana Amphitheater, and Odyssey Dance Theatre's 2017 European Tour.
Megan taught in Haiti for Lovolution’s Outreach Program, at Pioneer Performing Arts Highschool, was a faculty member for the I’m Training Dance Convention in Chihuahua, Mexico, and is an instructor for Millennium Dance Complex SLC.
She is Founder and Artistic Director of JUNCTION DANCE CO whose mission is “Connecting Lives Through Movement.” JUNCTION is known for their explosive fusion of street and contemporary styles, diverse youth and professional programs, and their involvement in the Salt Lake City community! Megan continues to share her passion teaching, dancing, and choreographing for industrials, workshops, intensives, dance companies and in studios across the nation!
Chacho has been Dancing seriously since Aug 2000. He has been training in the styles of B-Boying, HipHop and House Dance. First time he saw B-Boying was the movie Breakin’. He thought the moves were so cool but more importantly he loved how the B-Boys were expressing themselves. Later on he would find out about 3 B-boys (Marlon of Havikoro out of Texas, DoKnock of Battlemonkeys/Now Supercrew from California and Frankie Flave of LA Breakers/now Style Elements from California) that were coming to Applause Dance in Centerville, Ut to teach a 2 day workshop. Chacho was currently learning Capoeira (Brazilian Martial Art) at Applause, and Ashley Vilos daughter of the owner of Applause, handed him the Flyer and he transitioned slowly from Capoeira to B-boying after taking this workshop and traveling to his first out of state Jam Bboy Summit.
Being a shy introvert, Chacho found this form of expression as an outlet and way to say how he felt without even using his words. The more he studied and trained he found that B-Boying was 1/4 of a bigger Culture known to the world as Hip-Hop. Befriending two local B-Boys, Corey and Tony, forming his first crew “Dirty Hands”. This crew would practice in Tony’s Garage everyday and travel all over the USA attending learning and competing at various jams.
Life happens and Chacho could no longer live close to his crew members who lived in Ogden as he lost his job and had to move back to live with his Grandmother Jenny Vee (RIP) in Bountiful. So he had to find another place to practice. The only place close enough was SLC’s Mecca for HipHop Uprok. Chacho would go there to practice everyday he could wether it was borrowing Grandmas Car or finding change to bus himself from Bountiful to SLC. Uprok has been a practice spot for many Bboys and Bgirls since the early 90s. He would only see AOD there everyday while others would come so often. Chacho would practice with them and eventually be offered a spot with AOD. It was a tough decision to make and of course he have to eventually tell Dirty Hands that he needed to do what made sense for his situation and Join AOD.
AOD spent hours at Uprok training and perfecting their skills to go and Compete with the Best in the world at jams like Freestyle Session, Underdog and many more. AOD along side Uprok would throw monthly by jams at Uprok helping grow the Bboy scene to a few to the many. Eventually AOD would go their separate ways some moving to Vegas and Hawaii while the rest stayed back home.
In 2005 Chacho would find House dance and would self teach himself using YouTube as a now source to learn until he could travel to New York to train. A couple of years later, after traveling, Chacho met a DJ named Danny Dance at a club called W Lounge. Danny Dance and Chacho started a night at the SLC Library called House Night. Every Monday Chacho would go and Train and teach friends and passers by about House Dance all while Danny Dance would play. After Danny Dance Moved, Chacho took the mantel and has been running House Night ever since.
Chacho now is a current member and one of the founders of Flavanoids along with the crews first members Monkee, Killabee and Munk. Chacho also started a group called House of Flava. People who preserve and love all styles of HipHop and acknowledge people who have given a lot to the culture and help Utah grow to the dance scene it is today.
He is also a Bboy and Hiphop Dance Instructor at The School of Dance SLC. With the help of the School of Dance, he has built an amazing Bboy / Bgirl program that serves kids all over the State. Helping them not only with dance but also helping them be good people for the future and giving the the encouragement to come out of their shell to express themselves and gain confidence as he once did when he started so many years ago and still does to this day.
Since 2020 Chacho has made dance and teaching dance his full time profession, and continues to share the knowledge and movement of the Hip Hop Culture and its Dances.
Savanah started training at the Murray Ballet Center in 2002 and continued her training at Synergy Academy in 2005. Growing up she was apart of productions including Odyssey Dance performance of Thriller, Ballet West performance of the Nutcracker, and Mountain Ballet West performances of the Nutcracker. During High she was apart of the Copper Hills Drill Team where she earned three consecutive state titles with her team. In 2018, her junior year of high school she was crowned Miss Drill Utah. Savanah now teaches across the valley and is an acro dance instructor at Junction Dance Co. This will be her third season dancing on Junctions’ professional Company. She is excited for the future and hope dance will always be apart of it.
My name is Clara Parirenyatwa and I am currently a student at the University of Utah! I first started ballet at 13 which meant I had a later start than most, but I am glad I found dance when I did. Ballet has been an amazing artistic outlet for me and It has given me so many incredible opportunities. I fell in love with dance and all of the different communities and people who were involved in it. Although my ballet education has been shorter than most, I have trained under some of the most knowledgeable and accomplished instructors. I wanted to start teaching so that I could pass along all of the knowledge that has been shared with me. I have been teaching for close to a year now and I'm so grateful that I've been able to work with such incredible people and such talented dancers. I’m excited to see what the future holds for each and every one of them!
Morgen Call is a professional dancer, instructor and choreographer who has a love for creative movement and artistic expression. She started dancing at the age of 9 when she instantly knew she had a passion for dance. Morgen attended and trained at Pioneer Highschool for the Performing Arts along with many other studios including The Dance Club, Millennium Dance Complex SLC and various others outside of the state. She has a strong foundation in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, House, Jazz Funk, Freestyle & Improvisation. Morgen has had the privilege of traveling the world to perform in shows for Fashion Week and has been a featured dancer in commercials such as Fabletics and KIA. She is currently in her third season of dancing professionally with Junction Dance Company and is an instructor for their Youth Program. Morgen teaches Jazz Funk at Millennium Dance Complex SLC where she welcomes all levels and provides a safe space to explore creativity, advance in skills, and have fun! She aspires to help young movers find their own voice within dance without comparison or judgment. Morgen is grateful to be a part of a dance community that stands for unity, love, and inclusion.
Samantha has been tap dancing on and off for 23 years. She performed in and choreographed musicals throughout high school and college and received a Dance Minor from Pomona College. She moved to Utah and earned a PhD in mathematics from the U of U. She believes it is important to learn and respect tap dance history. Samantha has loved teaching youth tap at Junction since September 2021.
Hannah was raised in Kent, Washington where her passion for the arts began at just 8 years old when she learned to play the piano.
She began her training in ballroom dance at the age of 14 and won her first national title at 16. At 18, Hannah was awarded a Ballroom Dance Performance scholarship to Utah Valley University where she danced on the UVU Ballroom Dance Tour Team and joined Mos.A.IC., the university’s hip hop company. In May 2018, Hannah graduated with a BS in Movement Studies with an emphasis in Ballroom Dance.
Hannah has been a finalist in many competitions throughout the country in the International Ballroom and Latin styles, including California Open Dancesport, BYU Dancesport Championships, and U.S. National Amateur Dancesport Championships. After over a decade of competition and performance experience, Hannah expanded her artistic abilities to Hale Centre Theatre, where she performed in the U.S. premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom the Musical.
In addition to Junction Dance Studio, Hannah is also an instructor at Love.Live.Dance. She previously worked as an instructor at Ballroom Utah and was the assistant coach of the Ballroom Dance Team at Provo High School.
Hannah enjoys sharing her passion for dance with others. While teaching, she strives to create an environment that promotes confidence, strength, and self-love through the power of movement and expression. Hannah continues to teach, choreograph, compete, and pursue independent performance opportunities throughout Utah.
A born and raised Utahn from Brigham City, Jace is passionate about all movement and physical art. Growing up training at a competitive dance studio he developed a love for both street and technical styles. He also studied Musical theatre and Acting with a northern Utah production company. After graduating in 2017 he moved to SLC and LA to begin his career as a teacher and performer, working with Millennium Dance Company (SLC, LA), Edge PAC, Movement Lifestyle, Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio. He now resides back in SLC having studied Anatomy and Physiology, and Kinesiology with Myotherapy Technical School and training/teaching with JUNCTION DANCE CO. as a Company Member and Youth Director. He loves cats, Psychedelic rock music, the color orange, and Ginger Ale.