we offer dance lessons starting with 5-years old on up, (3-year olds for our kids ballet) and have blast in our classes in an encouraging, healthy environment. feel free to browse around our site to get to know us a bit more, and if you have any more questions after that, you're more than welcome to email us at info@freshattitude.com
Fresh Attitude Dance Studio was started in 2001 by Sharnessa Sanden as she and her husband of 1 year moved from the UK back to Longview, Sharnessa's wonderful hometown. The couple met at the International Bible Institute of London in 1998 . After graduating from the School of Creative Ministries (under IBIOL), Sharnessa auditioned for and joined the Christian pop-group, V*Enna, which was based in Manchester, England, but with a record deal in Nashville. V*Enna toured the U.S. and Europe and over the course of their career, the band performed for thousands, was featured on national television, radio & magazines in the U.S, Canada & Europe, among many other fun experiences. She was the co-choreographer for the live show as well.
After two years in the band with husband Sam as road manager, co-member Lucy West, and two dancers, Peter and Bobby, the group came to an end and Sharnessa and Sam moved to Longview. Shortly after living in Washington state, Sharnessa put on a week-long dance clinic to test the waters of interest in teaching a class or two. Expecting 10 people or so, the couple were blown away when 40 attended, and all stayed on as the studio "officially" began. From there on out the studio has grown many, many times over!
Sharnessa is SO grateful for each and every one of her students...and gives every ounce of credit for the studio back to Jesus!!!
"I believe it’s vital that what we create is both excellent and relevant. We have an amazing opportunity through the beauty of the Arts - dance in this instance - to impact the world around us in a way like no other. I believe that God’s placed a potential in the Arts for them to be extremely powerful – both for the performer and for the observer. Few things in this world can move hearts like they can. And our charge, then, is the awesome responsibility and the incredible honour of telling the most amazing story ever told – directly or indirectly - to the utmost of our abilities through our giftings.”
we are very excited to have a wonderful team of teachers here at the studio. see below to learn more about who they are.
owner and hip-hop/street teacher
Sharnessa is a native of lovely Longview. Sharnessa started tap lessons at 12-years old, which she loved and continued for four years before moving on to jazz (infused w/ hip-hop) and lyrical. In addition to taking these three styles throughout jr. high/high school, she also attended dance clinics, dance competitions, taught classes and was in many performances of all kinds. She was the co-choreographer for the pop band she was in (see above for more details), has performed in as well as choreographed, produced and/or directed many musical productions and performances throughout those years & beyond as well - at local venues, churches, college in London, England, dance tutorial DVD's, at conferences, high school choirs/ensembles and more. She was also an international recording artist, see above for more details. Sharnessa's passions include Jesus Christ, her husband, Sam, their two sons, homeschooling said sons and learning right alongside them, time with family and close friends, traveling & adventures & dreaming & DOing with loved ones, the countryside & the coast, cuddling up in a blanket w/ a cup of tea or coffee & a challenging/inspiring book, garage-saling/2nd-hand shopping, creating w/ crafts, the countryside & the coast, loving-on/fighting for justice for "the least of these," musicals, creme brulee, cheese, Anne of Green Gables, & looooads more. =)
Contemporary/Lyrical
Vola has taking taken dance on and off for over 20 years, starting at the age of three, and danced all throughout High School. In addition to taking ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, contemporary, modern and interpretive dance, she has also taught ballet, tap, jazz and lyrical at other studios. Vola has also performed in a handful of plays and has also run a church dance team. After taking a break for several years, Vola began dancing with Fresh Attitude ten years ago and this will be her ninth year teaching lyrical for us. Vola has been married to her husband for 19 and they have two daughters ages 17 and 13. Her many passions include, homeschooling her girls, hiking, reading, writing, social justice, politics, cooking, drinking coffee, and most importantly Jesus.
Hip-Hop/Street, Lyrical
Danielle began her dance career at the age of three. Her first love was tap and jazz, but then expanded to ballet and musical theatre.
In first grade, her family moved to Longview and soon after began to take dance with Fresh Attitude. She instantly knew it was a place she could belong. Since then, Danielle has done 16 years of hip-hop and 14 years of lyrical. In addition to dance, Danielle has acted, sang, danced, written, choreographed and worked backstage in 10 musicals. This is Danielle’s eighth year as a teacher here at Fresh Attitude and is looking forward to the new opportunities this year will present. In her spare time she also loves to read, kayak, and adventure anywhere outdoors. She is also passionate about investing into the next generation by working as the youth director for her church’s youth ministry.
Ballet
Beth Lee has lived in Longview for the last 16 years. She came from southern Oregon Coast and her love of dance began at a studio there. She has taken many styles including tap, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, ballet, and musical theater. Once she started dance she wanted to do it all. Her passion for the graceful sport grew and grew. She has taken dance at Fresh Attitude since her sophomore year of high school and came back a few years ago for the adult ballet class.
In addition to teaching at Fresh Attitude, Beth works as the Office Assistant at Stuffy's II. Beth is excited to be part of the amazing Fresh Attitude team and teach little ones the joys of dance!
Hip-Hop
JessiLee is from Kelso and has lived in the area her whole life. She loves our little town and all the beauty and people in it.
She loves dance and has taken different styles over time such as; Hip-hop, ballroom, Bollywood, lyrical, ballet and modern contemporary. When she was 17 she joined Fresh Attitude and never looked back. She loves teaching students how fun and creative the art of dance is.
When she isn't dancing, she enjoys hiking with friends and family as well as reading, cooking, and playing board games.
Hip-Hop/Contemporary
Grace was born and raised in Longview and couldn't imagine living anywhere else. She loves the PNW and all of the beautiful nature that comes with it.
She started dancing when she was 7 and fell in love with it and have been doing it ever since. Grace has taken a couple styles including hip hop, lyrical, ballet and contemporary. This is her third year teaching and she teaches all kind of age groups and loves every second of it!!! Out side of dance Grace loves to go hiking and when she gets a free Saturday she love to go hiking near Forks Washington. Grace also loves hanging out with her family and friends especially if coffee is involved. She serves in her churches kids church ministries and truly love to help with kids.
Ballet
Isabella Aubian has worked at Fresh Attitude Dance Studio since 2021. She grew up at Fresh Attitude Dance Studio watching her sister and teachers dance as well as teach. She began dancing at the age of four, taking Lyrical and at five she started taking Hip-Hop. When the dance studio added Ballet, Bella he was ten years old and started taking Ballet as well. In 2019 she got took a Contemporary class from Nicole Frizzell, a former dance teacher at the dance studio. At that time her deep love for Contemporary began. Bella started doing Contemporary choreography with Grace Moore in 2019, and has have been co-teaching Contemporary with her since 2021.
Bella's first teaching experience was in 2017 at Friday School, a homeschool co-op, teaching Lyrical and Hip-Hop. She taught there until 2019 and in 2020 she began started helping with choreography. Bella was hired in 2021 to teach dance camp and became an official staff member of Fresh Attitude Dance Studio. She now teach Hip-Hop, Contemporary, and Pre-K Ballet here at Fresh Attitude Dance Studio.
Bella has a few deep loves in her life: God, family, friends, dancing, and teaching. She loves dance because it helps her express herself with music and movement. She especially love working at Fresh Attitude Dance Studio because of the environment Sam, Sharnessa, and all of the staff, have worked hard to create.
Ballet/Technique
Emily is a PNW native and has been involved in theater and dance since early childhood. She has trained in ballet, jazz, contemporary, lyrical and tap, although ballet will always be nearest and dearest to her heart! Emily has been teaching dance since 2004 and began teaching with Fresh Attitude in 2016. After a two-year break following the births of her two youngest daughters, Emily is so blessed and excited to once again be sharing her love for dance with students at Fresh Attitude! Emily and her husband Matt, have three beautiful daughters aged 8, 2 and 1. They are passionate followers of Jesus Christ, and especially love learning/sharing about their Creator by being out in His creation! Emily loves music, road trips and spending time with her family and friends. She is a nerd for studying the farming, homesteading and homemaking skills of generations past, and especially enjoys knitting and other fiber-crafting in her spare time.
The styles we offer at this point are Hip-Hop/Pop/Street-Jazz, Lyrical/Contemporary and Ballet. All "styles" we at Fresh Attitude only call by the first part of their names...however, each style is infused with more than one style, so where we can we like to give it its full title that we at Fresh Attitude have given it with our own flair. In a nutshell, Hip-Hop is a more strong, edgy style performed to a song with an evident, heavy beat, whereas Lyrical is more fluid and expressive, but still strong as well, as the title "Lyrical" refers to expressing the lyrics of a song.
we offer a number of different hip-hop/street classes. we will place you in a class fitting your age, experience and skill level.
we offer many different lyrical/contemporary classes. we will place you in a class fitting your age, experience and skill level.
we offer many different beginner ballet classes from, ages 3 and up.
Technique is designed especially for the intermediate to advanced student, middle-school aged to adult. This fun and challenging class can be taken alone or as a supplementary class to bring your Ballet, Lyrical and even Hip-Hop to the next level! Using fundamental elements of ballet, jazz, and lyrical, this class explores leaps, turns, extensions, flexibility, precision of timing and much more! In order to better compliment other classes, Technique will not be performing in the recital.
We hold our classes five days a week - Mondays-Fridays, all between 3:30pm and 7:30pm.
How we place people in classes relies on a few factors: age, experience and space. As we receive registration forms, we decide who will best be suited for which classes. Regarding age, the youngest we take is 5 years old for hip-hop and lyrical, 3 years old for ballet. As long as we have the space, we'd love for you to join us, regardless of how experienced you are in this style of dance. Our main session runs from September to May/June, with an end-of-year show usually the weekend after Memorial Day. If you are interested in dancing with us, we do ask that you commit to taking for the whole of the session (see below). If there is room in the class you would be placed in, you can join us pretty much at any time of the year up to January-ish with private lessons to catch up on what you've missed. To sign up for dance, please print out the registration form listed to the left on this page. Send it in with a $20 registration fee/person. This registration fee is non-refundable. If you need us to send you a registration form, please contact us using the links at the bottom of this page. We are asking that you commit for the whole year of dance. If you quit during the year, this will affect the rest of the students in your class as it will affect the year-end routine. If, after trying for a month, you feel that dance is not your thing, you are free to quit. However, after that "trial month" (please note, tuition is charged from first day of class, including the "trial month"), you decide to quit, you will be charged a $50 class cancellation fee, as well as any outstanding tuition owed at the point of cancellation, which would be through the end of the current month. Additionally, you need to let your teacher know in person, by phone or in writing that you are quitting.Registration Form
Tuition is $45 per month; and $40/each for each additional family member. Payment is due no later than the 2nd lesson of each month. We take payments in cash, check, or credit cards through Square. If you want to pay online, please let Amy know and she can set it up.
If tuition is not paid by the 15th, a $5 late fee is charged. If we have not received your tuition by the 1st of the next month, we will send an invoice to you and you will be billed $10 for administrative late fees (this includes the $5 late fee).If one person is taking more than one class, the tuition for each additional class is an extra $35. So a person taking two classes would pay $85 ($45+40). The tuition fee is calculated for the year, but for simplicity, divided into nine equal monthly payments. Therefore, that monthly fee is the same, regardless of the number of actual classes you are able to attend each a month. The tuition remains the same regardless of the number of classes in any given month, as there will be months where the class numbers vary due to holidays, the way the days run on the calendar, snow cancellations etc. Once you have made a commitment to taking dance under Sharnessa, your presence and place in the class are counted on; so please do your best to attend class as often as possible. If you have to miss class, you are responsible to catch before next weeks class, either by getting together with a classmate or by taking a private lesson from your teacher.
in all we do we strive for the best. we aim to bring the best to you and try to provide the best services there are.
Registration Fee: $20 /person.
(non-refundable)
Hip-Hop: $45/month*
Lyrical: $45/month*
Ballet: $45/month*
All Boys Hip-Hop: $45/month*
NOTE: If you take more than one class, the cost for class #2 will be $40. I.e.if you took both Lyrical and Hip-hop the cost would be $85/month.
If more than one person from an immediate family takes classes, the cost for additional students are $40/class. I.e. two students from the same family taking a class each would cost $85/month.
Registration Form
The session begins in September, and ends with our end-of-year shows – the recitals! –which, this coming year, is planned for the week before Memorial Day, but we will confirm this closer to the date! Dress rehearsal and studio rehearsals are the week right before that weekend. (A BLAST of a time!!!!) We take Thanksgiving Day off, a break over Christmas, and then we also take Longview/Kelso’s spring break.
To enable everyone to get the most out of the lessons - i.e. minimal distractions - we have to ask that no parents, guardians, friends or other students sit in on the lessons. However, for the last class of each month they are welcome to come in for the last 5 minutes of class. Also, you will all be happy to know that we have a lovely reception area for family and friends to enjoy their wait in!
Our studio location is in the Three Rivers Mall in Kelso, just off I-5. Best entrance to access our studio is through the Food Court entrance and then take a right.
Mall Map
Bring a bottle of water to class
Please NO tummies showing, and NO low-cut tops! Modesty is a PRIORITY!
Wear proper shoes - sneakers or hip-hop shoes that does not leave marks. NO flip-flops, heels, sandals, etc.
Wear flexible attire... i.e. - NO jeans.
No chewing gum in class.
Check your name off on the register when you get to class.
Please do not bring any guests to your class.
If you miss a lesson, please contact a friend from your class to find out what you missed, and proceed with getting together to catch up if needed.
HAVE A BLAST!!!
The best way to get in touch with us is via email. If you are interested in taking dance with us, please use the contact form below, or send us an email with the following information:
- Your name
- The name, age and dance experience of the person interested in taking dance with us
- Your contact email, street address and phone number.
If you have questions regarding paid or owed tuition, please contact Amy using the link below.
Thanks!!!
351 Three Rivers Drive, Unit 1213,
Kelso, WA 98626
2824 Louisiana St,
Longview, WA 98632
(360) 957 4544
info@freshattitude.com
amy@freshattitude.com
