Lauren (Giangregorio) Stengel - Owner & Team Director

Originally from Los Angeles County, California, Lauren grew up training and competing in tap, jazz, lyrical and ballet. At the age of 16, she won the silver medal for her solo at the IDO World Tap Dance Championships in Riesa, Germany, and in the prior World Championships she earned a gold medal in her group performance and was a finalist for both her solo and duet. Her ballet training was primarily under Lisa Cuizon in the Balanchine technique. Lauren's professional experience includes working and performing as a NFL Denver Broncos Cheerleader for three seasons, coaching the Division I Santa Clara University Broncos Cheer and Dance Teams for three seasons, serving as a member of the highly competitive University of Colorado CU Express Dance Team for 3 years (Team Captain for 2 years), working as a Universal Dance Association (UDA) staff instructor, performing in the celebrity charity dance showcase, “We Sparkle” in Southern California with actors such as Ryan Stiles and Eric McCormack from Will and Grace, assistant coaching at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colorado, as well as training and choreographing for many College, High School, and All Star cheer and dance teams throughout the country. Lauren attended the University of Colorado, where she earned double degrees, a B.A. in Dance and a B.S. in Advertising from the Journalism School. She currently works for the Denver Broncos as the Cheerleader's Program Manager, where she is the Director of over 600 Junior Cheerleaders; Lauren also assists the with the Broncos Game Day Entertainment Marketing and other events.

Alexander Roy- Ballet Instructor

Alexander Roy is from Chicago, Illinois and received his training from the Chicago High School for the Arts. As a student he performed lead roles in ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Paquita. In 2016 Alexander joined The Joffrey Academy of Dance as a Trainee on a full scholarship. While at Joffrey he performed soloist and ensemble roles in Swan Lake, Symphonic Variations and Napoli.

In 2018 Alexander joined Atlanta Ballet as a Second Company member under the leadership of Gennadi Nedvigin and Sharon Story. In 2019 Alexander Joined Colorado Ballet as an Apprentice. During his first season with Colorado Ballet, Alexander had the pleasure of performing Demi Soloist and Corps De Ballet roles such as Red Man in Lila York’s Celts, as well as Russian and Warrior in The Nutcracker. Alexander is a two time Youth America Grand Prix finalist and has choreographed two of his own ballets. This is Alexander’s second season with Colorado Ballet. 

Alex is entering his second season at the studio, and the impact of his training is noteworthy. We are so excited to see how he will elevate our dancers’ training this year.

Jordan Henry - Dance Instructor & Director of Ballet Showcase

Dance captivated Jordan from the moment she learned to walk. Her mom enrolled her in her first dance class at the age of three. While growing up in Florida she trained and competed in every style of dance she could, including jazz, tap, ballet, musical theater, and lyrical. She graduated from Emory University with a degree in Dance and Movement Studies.  After college, she served as the artistic director of a ballet studio in Northeast Florida. In 2014, Jordan underwent ankle surgery, which led her to step down from the company, move to Colorado, and go to law school. Now that she has established a law practice, she is able to teach again! There is nothing she is more passionate about than sharing her love of ballet with younger students whom she mentors through dance.

Rylee Martinez - Dance Instructor & Team Coach

Rylee was born in California, but raised here in Colorado. She’s been dancing for 12 years, and was introduced to dance competition life when she started dancing at Mile High in middle school. In high school, she spent her first three years training at Millennium Dance Complex Denver to move to LA to become a professional dancer. During this time, Rylee had the opportunity to train closely with choreographers such as George Jones Jr. and Jojo Gomez. Rylee danced on TV to promote Disney movies such as Ferdinand, and has won scholarships at competitions such as Monsters of Hip Hop. Rylee spent her senior year of high school dancing on Cherry Creek’s varsity poms team, during which they won state and got second at UDA nationals. She now coaches Cherokee Trail’s middle school feeder team, and is competing on Colorado’s only Open Worlds team. Her team placed 4th in Pom at Worlds for 2021 and will be competing Hip Hop this upcoming season. She is very happy to be back where it all began!

Sarah Castro- Dance Instructor & Team Coach

Sarah Castro grew up in Omaha, Nebraska before attending Oklahoma City University where she earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance.  She has been fortunate to have many rolls as an educator, choreographer, adjudicator, and performer over the last 15 years.  Her career has been well balanced by pursuing these paths and she is passionate about combining these avenues to provide a well-rounded approach to educating dancers. 

Sarah has danced internationally with Royal Caribbean International and Dublin World Wide Productions.   She also had the opportunity to tour nationally and performed in many musicals all over the United States.  Her favorite credits include: “ 9 to 5”, “West Side Story”, “Spamalot”, “Legally Blonde”, “Guys and Dolls,” and “Gypsy”.  Over her performing career, Sarah also held many dance captain and swing positions, where she gained additional knowledge and insight about the performing industry.  

As an educator and choreographer, Sarah has trained dancers all over the country.  Over the past decade she lived in New York City and taught in the Tri-State area.   She was on faculty at many different studios and choreographed for many competitive dance companies in New York City, Queens, West Chester, Long Island, and New Jersey.  Sarah approaches her classes with clear intentions, challenging material, and a strong background in anatomy, kinesiology, and dance pedagogy.  Her versatile dance foundation ranges from teaching classes in jazz, tap, ballet, leaps and turns, strength and conditioning, musical theatre, pointe, and acrobatics.  Sarah’s technical foundation is the framework for her classes and is incorporated in her progressions and combinations for all genres she is teaching.  She provides the tools for dancers of all ages to take their dancing to the next level.