Our Team - Virtuous Dance Center

Company Director

Allie Perdue

Ms. Allie Perdue is the Virtuous Dance Center Company Dance Director.
Ms. Allie started her dancing career at age 3 at Barton and Williams School of Dance in Stafford Virginia . She has trained in ballet, lyrical, tap, pointe, and hip-hop. In high school she had the opportunity to be part of the North Stafford High School Varsity Dance team for 3 years, and part of the dance competition team for 4 years. Allie graduated from Longwood University in May 2018 with a degree in Elementary Education and is a third-grade teacher at Wilderness Elementary School. During her college experience she danced for 5 years at the Longwood University Company of Dancers, where she was treasurer for 1 year and President for 2. Allie is also a member of the local professional dance company #Company360. She is so excited to be teaching at Virtuous Dance Center and to be coaching and working with the competition team for this upcoming year.

Dance Instructors

Blayne Stine

Blayne Stine started dancing when she was 12 years old which is a little later than most, but that didn’t stop her from following her dreams! She began her training at Artistry Dance Center and eventually moved to Gift of Dance Academy in Fredericksburg, VA before pursuing a BFA in dance Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she graduated in May 2019! Not only did she receive a BFA in dance, but also a BA in Sport and Exercise Studies and hopes to be able to use both of her degrees to help dancers reach their potential! Blayne has #choreographed...

Chloe Allen

Chloe began her dancing career at the age of 11 and began competitive dancing soon after. It was then she was able to utilize her passion for performance on the big stage. Chloe’s training includes Fredericksburg Studio of the Arts and Orange School of Performing Arts. During her training at Orange, Chloe was able to learn from choreographers such as Casey Goshow, Elijah Mortan, Voltaire Wade-Greene, Emily Brown, Demetia Hopkins-Greene, Kenny Gary, and Charis Moses. Chloe is excited to be working with Virtuous Dance Center as she begins a new chapter in her dancing career: sharing her love of performance with her students.

Dance Instructors

Claryssa Griffin

Claryssa Griffin started dancing at age four and began competing at the age of six. She attended Arabesque Dance studio and B-Funk Dance studio, where she took classes in #ballet, #tap, #jazz, #lyrical, #modern, #pointe, #hiphop and #musicaltheater. In her early educational stages, she became a student teacher at age 11 and started teaching her own classes at age 15. Claryssa took several master classes with Monsters Dance focused on hip hop and masters classes in New York City as well. In high school she joined the Senior Dance company and became captain of the cheer team 4 years in...

Co-Owner & Artistic Director

Karime Echevarria

Karime Echevarria is an alumni of the Compania de Danza Floklorica de la Universidad De Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (UACJ),- Ballet Folkloric Company of the city of Juarez, Mexico) and co-owner, and Artistic Director of Virtuous Dance Center. Karime has a Master Degree in Business Administration and Bachelors In Business, Economics and Spanish. Karime started dancing and performing at the age 5 for the Compania de Danza Floklorica de la UACJ under the direction the Dr. Fernando Soto and the professor Victor Soria until she moved out of the country. When she moved to the United States she continue to dance...

Dance Instructors

Kaylee Garcia

Kaylee Garcia has been dancing since the age of 2 were she has been training in #ballet, #musicaltheater, #tap, #jazz, #pointe, #contemporary, #hiphop, #modern, and #ballroom. As part of her professional dance training at Dance Institute of Austin, Texas she trained for over 25+ hours weekly and attended national dance conventions were she was awarded multiple national dance titles in competitions around the United States. As part of her professional dance career, Kaylee was featured in Paramore’s: Still Into You, Music Video and has attended Complexions Contemporary Ballet Summer Intensive in New York City and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Winter...

Dance Instructors

Liam Storm

Lee has been dancing for 10 years, beginning his dance education at age 7. Through his young career Lee has trained under choreographers such as Enrique Brown, Kaelynn Harris, and Chachi Gonzalez. Lee has performed at Dance Worlds in Orlando Florida, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, World Of Dance New Jersey, and Battle At the Barbecue. Lee is excited to joined Virtuous Dance Center and share her passion for dance with the next generation of performers.

Dance Instructors

Sarah Law

Ms.Sarah Law began tap dancing at the age of 7 and has barely taken her tap shoes off since. She has experience with contemporary, Jazz, and Modern dance but tap is where her heart belongs. After 10 years of dance classes she began teaching and has taught tap for four years to students ages 5 to 85. Sarah loves teaching and choreographing. She has participated in the #NationalCherryBlossom Parade’s All-Star Tap team for multiple years and has as choreographed routines in both the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania county parades of #Virginia. Sarah was also a member and choreographer in the...