"Unleashing dancers purest potential of the mind, body and soul."
620 E. GREEN BAY AVE. SAUKVILLE, WI 53090
262-397-6603
"They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about"
- Job 21:11
Who We Are
Conveniently located just off HWY 43 in Saukville, NLD is home to a team of highly trained dance professionals dedicated to inspiring every student. We provide a positive, values-driven environment where dancers can grow in both skill and character.
At NLD, dance is more than movement—it’s a lifelong journey that helps students discover their passion from within. Our programs offer training across a wide range of styles, including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Creative Movement, Hip Hop, Performance Company, and Competition Team. Our mission is to guide each dancer as they build confidence, discipline, and a true love for the art of dance.
Where Our Name Comes From
The name Nine Ladies Dancing is inspired by the classic Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” In some interpretations, the “Nine Ladies Dancing” symbolize nine guiding life principles: Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control, and Patience.
These values serve as the foundation of our teaching philosophy. While we are passionate about sharing the art and discipline of dance, we are equally committed to creating a safe, values-driven environment for every student. Families can trust that our music is clean, our costumes are modest, and our culture is rooted in positivity and integrity.
Miss Cari
Owner & Founder
Miss Cari has been sharing her passion for dance and mentorship with students for over 20 years. She is the founder of Nine Ladies Dancing and 10 Lords A Leaping, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to uplifting youth through the arts.
Her love for dance began at the age of four after seeing The Nutcracker Ballet, and from that moment she has devoted her life to the art form. With over eight years of teaching experience, Miss Cari’s favorite part of instructing is watching students grow—not only as dancers, but as confident, well-rounded individuals. Her classes emphasize proper technique and terminology while maintaining a fun, challenging, and positive environment that encourages students to discover their own passion for dance.
Miss Cari’s training spans Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, Hip Hop, and African, studied at various studios in the Milwaukee area. At Pius XI High School, she furthered her studies in technique and performance while also serving as captain of the dance team. After graduation, she danced professionally for the Milwaukee Bucks as an Energee Dancer before pursuing higher education.
She went on to earn a Marketing degree and will graduate with her BFA in Contemporary Dance in Spring 2014. During her collegiate career, Miss Cari performed in both faculty and guest artist works, held a dance scholarship, and had the opportunity to perform as an intern with Oni Dance and Wild Space Dance Company. Her performance credits also include Summerdances 2010, Winterdances 2011, and a site-specific Milwaukee production choreographed by award-winning artist Stephen Koplowitz.
Miss Cari’s journey reflects her deep commitment to dance as both an art and a discipline. She is dedicated to fostering an environment where students can thrive technically, artistically, and personally.
Miss Caroline
Studio Director/Instructor
Caroline Seigworth started dance at a young age, taking classes at her studio and joining the Mukwonago Varsity Dance team in high school. She auditioned for the UWM dance department when she realized it was her life passion. She has had the opportunity to dance with Simone Ferro, Molly Shanahan (Mad Shak Dance Company), a re-staging of Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset, and intern twice with Deb Loewen (Wild Space Dance Company) and Dani Kuepper (Danceworks). She also worked as as one of the Student Undergraduate Research Fellows for "Mapping Migration of Gesture" with Maria Gillespie (Oni Dance Company). Their presentation at the UW-Milwaukee Research Symposium was one of the ten research presentations to win an award out of 400. She graduated in May of 2016 with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography and a Somatic Minor. Post graduation she danced for Peter Stathas Dance Company.
She has choreographed for New Dancemakers, where it was selected to be shown at the American College Dance Association festival, and was accepted to be performed as part of the Milwaukee Fringe Festival. She also choreographed and performed for Danceworks show, "Get it Out There." She maintains a collaboration with Black Market Dance and Film, both in choreographing and dancing in the front of the camera for various dance films, music videos, and commercials.
Her teaching experience varies to many studios, styles, and ages. She has experience in teaching modern, ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, stretching and conditioning, improvisation, and poms. She enjoys teaching both recreational and competitive dance. She loves teaching because of the connections she makes with students, many of them lasting past when she teaches them. She gets so much out of dance and loves helping others find that passion for themselves. She enjoys passing on the knowledge she learned from others before her, and helping dancers find their own artistic voice.
Miss Elizabeth
Instructor
Elizabeth Harrison was born in Hong Kong, where she began dancing at the age of four. She trained at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where she performed in Les Sylphides, Flower Festival in Genzano, Paquita, The Four Temperaments, and Persistent Memory. She also danced with Hong Kong Ballet in The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, and Romeo & Juliet. A two-time winner of the Hong Kong Open Dance Competition (2007 and 2009), she has received numerous awards for her artistry and technical skill.
Harrison earned dual undergraduate degrees in Ballet Performance and International Relations from the University of Oklahoma, where she performed featured roles in The Nutcracker, as well as appearances in Someday Sideways by Jock Soto, La Bayadère, La Vivandière, Cinderella, Swan Lake, Raymonda, and Lakmé. In 2015, she toured internationally with Oklahoma Festival Ballet, performing at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria.
Following a season with Cincinnati Ballet, she joined Milwaukee Ballet, where she danced for seven seasons. Her repertoire there included leading roles in Michael Pink’s Beauty and the Beast, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, La Bohème, and Dracula, among many others choreographed by a diverse array of artists.
After an injury took her off the stage, Harrison relocated to the Boston area, where she has spent the past two years teaching ballet. Her focus has been on nurturing the next generation of dancers through a healthy, inclusive, and technically sound approach rooted in her extensive performance experience. She recently earned her Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, further deepening her commitment to education, research, and evolving the art form.
Lisa Moberly
Instructor
Lisa has been dancing since the age of 6. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point with a Bachelors of Arts in Dance. While in college, Lisa spent 2 summers in New York taking classes with the Nicolas Lois Summer Intensive and Alvin Ailey School. During the academic year, Lisa taught children dance classes and became the Assistant Director of Turning Point Dance Academy in Stevens Point.
After graduation, Lisa danced professionally for Kanopy Dance , under Artistic Director Chris Stevens, in Madison, Wisconsin. After moving to Milwaukee, she began performing with Dancecircus, under Artistic Director, Betty Salamun. Lisa has helped create children shows for the Symphony’s Artist and Children Education shows (A.C.E), as well as teaching masterclasses and still performing. Lisa moved to Chicago to continue learning and dancing. While living there, she did pick up performances for individual artists and taught advanced modern for Sherry Morray at Academy of Dance Arts pre professional students.
Because of her exposure to Pilates in college, Lisa chose to complete an 800 hour teacher training program while living in Chicago. She trained with Gary Calderone, Kathy Grant, Michelle Larsson, and Fran Ahrens. She has been fully certified since 1999.
In 2007, Lisa’s love of movement led her to GYROTONIC® and in 2013, she completed her level 1 training to become a certified trainer.
In May of 2017, Lisa completed a 10 month training for Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) and is now a certified MAT Specialist. Adding this skill, allows Lisa to test range of motion in her clients and students, find a limitation, and strengthen the muscles not functioning to their best ability.
Lisa is thrilled to be sharing these skills with students at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Dance department where she teaches Pilates, the Milwaukee Ballet School, Danceworks Inc, where she teaches a variety of styles and ages dance, and at her own studio, Enhanced Body Movement, in Mequon.
Miss Ashley
Instructor
Ashley Platow started dancing at the age of three, crafting her art at multiple studios throughouth the Milwaukee area. These studios gave a wide range of opportunities to learn and perform dance in exciting new ways including; preforming at Disney World, participating in conventions and workshops and traveling to LA to study at the Edge Performance Arts Center. She later went graduate from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater with a BBA in International Business with minors in French and Dance. During her time at Whitewater, she participated as a dancer and choreographer in the Dancescapes performances and American College Dance Association festivals.
Ashley has been teaching in the Milwaukee area since 2016. She has experience teaching both recreational and competitive classes in ballet, jazz, tap, and contemporary. She crated and managed a performance company at a local dance studio and is currently on the Jazz Faculty with Milwaukee Ballet School and Academy. She hopes to inspire students to love dance as much as she does and to find a safe haven in dance.
Mr. Tecwyn
Instructor
Mr. Tecwyn grew up dancing in Plymouth WI taking classes in Tap, Ballet, and Jazz. At the age of 9 he joined the Dancescape Ballet Company in Plymouth and performed in the Nutcracker, Cinderella, and many other ballets. In 2008 he started his teaching career working at various studio. In his time teaching, he choreographed many solos, large classes and their Nutcracker.
Miss Lilliana
Instructor
She have been dancing since she was 2 years old. She has trained in ballet at Steps of Grace, Above The Clouds, Milwaukee Ballet and now 9 Ladies Dancing. She is currently in level 6 ballet, pointe and level 4 Jazz. When she is not dancing at the studio she is dancing at Eastbrook Church as part of the Dance Eternal Dance Ministry or you will find her drawing. She's excited to share the love of Jesus with dance and help mold great technique within the younger dance classes.
Miss Tabitha
Instructor
Tabitha Verley danced Latin, Swing, and Ballroom all through high school and taught for a short time. Dance has always been a passion of hers and when her daughter wanted to dance they began looking for a studio. Kenzi, her daughter, started dancing for Nine Ladies in 2021 and they loved the environment and teachers so much that when the opportunity to teach came up she welcomed it. She lives in Port Washington with her husband, son and daughter.
Mr. Malcolm
Instructor
Malcolm Nieves is a choreographer, competitive Hip Hop coach, street dancer, Co Creator to the Wisconsin Krump dance movement (WI Buck), and Local Realtor/ Founder of the Nieves Realty Team. Malcolm started off as a self taught Hip Hop dancer in Kenosha Wisconsin. Malcolm did Battle dancing and competitive Hip Hop team competitions with Kenosha’s most elite Hip Hop dancers also known as (Bradford’s Finest). At the age of 15 Malcolm had a life changing experience at Youth revival in Milwaukee Wisconsin, that led him to give his life over to Christ. The minister that led Malcolm to salvation also became his mentor for life/ brother (Louis Hurd) who founded Rhemadance Dance Studio. Malcolm Trained with Louis and his wife Lakeisha Hurd in Hip Hop, Contemporary ,and African dance. Malcolm traveled to California to the Word and Motion Christian dance conference in 2011 led by Pastors Tymme and Aury Reitz. There he trained in Lockin, Latin Funk, and house dancing from elite dancers (Misty Rasconsmith, Keeley “Lockn’ Key Kaukimoce (ABDC BeatFreaks), and few others). When Malcolm returned he started training with Milwaukee WI breakin legend Mijo from Motion Disorder crew in break dancing. Over next couple years Malcolm trained with (the Creator of Krump dance) Tight Eyez, beast, Philip ChBeeb (PacMan SYTYCD), Christopher Gilbert (SYTYCD), Cedric Gardner (SYTYCD, Step up 3), Ian Eastwood (ABDC), David Moore, and many others. Malcolm trained/ became a professional ballroom Instructor from 2014- 2015 at Fred Astaire dance studio. Malcolm choreographed / performed the first Hip Hop routine at FAWC (Fred Astaire World Champion competition) in Las Vegas. From there Malcolm was privileged to go on a mission trip to Uganda, Africa with Dance Mission International led by Cory Ratliff. There Malcolm shared the gospel and taught dance workshops. Malcolm continued on to choreograph numerous award winning dances for different studios across the state of Wisconsin. From there Malcolm decided to shift into Real Estate and Form a family real estate team with his Wife Donielle Nieves. Currently, Malcolm works full time in his real estate career while making selective appearances as dance coach, still finding ways to serve the youth and his community through dance ministry. Nine Ladies Dancing Dance Academy.
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Miss Laura
Instructor and Business Manager
Miss Laura is a wife of 20 years and a mother to 3 wonderful children ( Lilliana, Gabriella, & Elijah). She has been working with young dancers for over 20 years. Laura was a competitive gymnast for 14 years and a cheerleader for 8 years. She went to Liberty University on a full Cheerleading Scholarship. After Laura sustained a career ending injury, she relocated back to Ozaukee County and began teaching children dance, gymnastics, and cheerleading. She taught competitive gymnastics and all-star cheerleading at North Shore Academy of Gymnastics. She also taught cheer and dance camp at Eastbrook Church for 20 years before passing it onto her daughter and her friend. Laura still teaches the dance ministry at Eastbrook church for children in grades 5-8. She taught cheerleading for Above The Clouds in Milwaukee for 7 years. As for the business side of things, Laura has always had a heart and passion for organization and administration work. Laura’s family calls her “EXCEL '' because she likes to put all things in excel sheets, binders and on the calendar. Laura worked for a non-profit in Milwaukee for 17 years doing administrative work and teaching. When she’s not at the studio you will find her either homeschooling her children, working with the 2-4 graders at her church, or taking her dog to the dog park. Laura is so excited to be a part of the Nine Ladies Dancing Family.
Carly has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She has been training with Nine ladies dancing since they first opened their doors 8 years ago. She is currently enrolled in level 6 ballet, level 2 pointe, and level 5 contemporary. When she’s not dancing, you can find her spending time with friends and babysitting. She’s excited to help teach the next generation of dancers at the studio and help them make memories to last a lifetime.
Miss Carly
Instructor
Gabi has been dancing from a very young age. Before coming to nine ladies dancing she danced at a few studios in the Milwaukee area. She is currently enrolled in ballet 6, jazz 5, contemporary 5, and pointe 2. When she is not dancing at the studio she can be found serving at her church and/or spending time with friends and family. She loves teaching kids dance and seeing them grow in their skills, find new friends, and grow/find their love for dance.
Miss Gabi
Instructor
Miss Asia
Instructor
Asia has been dancing since the age of 10. She has attended several dance conventions through Dance Revolution and has been taught by various professional artists. She is excited to teach her students about dance and the love of God.
