Comotion Dance

Comotion Dance is a dance studio in Columbia, MO. It offers technical training in dance for students of all ages in a positive environment, with the aim of building both the skills needed to pursue a dance career and the life skills that carry into other pursuits. The studio holds a 4.50 rating from the customers who have reviewed it.

The studio is open Monday through Thursday from 5:30 to 9:30pm and houses four dance rooms, each with custom built Marley sprung floors designed for its dancers. Its teaching staff covers a range of styles: tap, jazz, lyrical, ballet, technique, pom, hip-hop, and acro, with instructors including co-owners Jacqueline Sutton, who serves as Dance Director, and Melissa Miller, who manages the desk, alongside Hallie Comer, Alyssa Rigali, Shannon Ponder, Brooklynn Sander, Sophia Myers, Michael Warner, and Avery Schoeneberg.

The studio's competition team has earned recognition at Starquest and BravO! events, including a Starquest Odyssey Award, a Top Tap Performance award, a Top Musical Theater Performance award, a Standing O!vation Award, an Outstanding Performance Award, choreography awards from BravO! and The Edge, a technique award from The Edge, a BravO! Slam Dunk Judges Award, and a Starquest Overall High Score for Teen Large Group. Avery Schoeneberg was named Team Member of the Year.

Registration and sessions run on a set calendar: the winter/spring session ends May 30, 2026, with the spring recital dress rehearsal on May 29 and the recital on May 30. The summer session runs June 8 through July 15, 2026, fall registration opens July 24, 2026, and the fall session begins September 14, 2026.

Comotion Dance sits on Cadet Ct in Columbia, where it trains dancers across tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, hip-hop, pom, and acro and fields a competition team that has brought home awards from Starquest and BravO! events.