Meet the Instructors
Breanne Stambusky
Breanne was born and raised in the small town of Quincy CA. She found her passion early when she started dancing at age 2. After learning tap and ballet as a young girl, she moved more into the jazz genre as she got older. In Junior High, she joined the cheer squad and started to assist in youth gymnastics. In Senior High, she continued to dance as a cheerleader and was also the assistant coach for the Pop Warner cheer squad.
After moving to Davis in 2000, she started teaching alongside her sister at the Davis Art Center, eventually taking over her classes in 2001.
In 2014, Breanne started the Poprocks Dance Team, focusing on public performances and competitions. The Poprocks grew forming a performance team in 2015 and a second branch of competition team in 2016!
She opened Stambusky Studios in the fall of 2016 and currently continues to do what she loves; teaching children to share her love of dance and performing.
When she’s not dancing, Breanne works for the Davis Joint Unified School District as a para educator for the special education pre-school.
“I teach dance to help children gain confidence and self awareness, but the most important thing to me is that the kids have fun! If I can walk away from a class knowing everyone had a great time and learned something new, I’ve done my job.” – Breanne
Spencer
Spencer is from Pittsboro, NC where she danced at 7 Dance Centre throughout middle and high school. She competed in styles ranging from tap to hip hop to lyrical, but focused heavily on contemporary, jazz and acrobatic styles. In addition to competing at 7DC, she also taught and assisted classes in a range of styles. She was also a North Carolina Dance Ambassador for four years, a program where she trained with several choreographers outside of her studio. Spencer has been working at Stambusky Studios since 2023 as an instructor and choreographer for the competition team. Outside of dance, she graduated with a B. A. in Political Science and Psychology, with plans to attend law school
Lydia
Lydia was born in Fargo, North Dakota, and started dancing at age 10, beginning with recreational hip-hop, musical theater, and jazz classes. When she was 12, she moved to Davis, where her first dance teacher was Breanne!! She later trained in ballet and contemporary as a member of the Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre.
Her first job was teaching ballet classes in high school, and she spent her summers teaching dance as a college student. She recently graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in psychology and a minor in dance. In college, she choreographed and danced in UCSC's annual dance production, Random: With a Purpose, before going on to direct the show. She's also been involved in several contemporary dance films and choreography projects on campus.
Outside of dance, Lydia works as a preschool teacher and is working towards becoming a recreational therapist.
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