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IGNITE Dance & Yoga offers movement, recreational dance, and yoga classes, along with a competition team and performing group. Students can take classes in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Tumbling, Conditioning, Stretch & Strength, and dance classes for adults, as well as Adult Vinyasa, Yin, Gentle Yoga, YogaStrong, and Barre Fusion. The program also offers an Early Childhood Enrichment Program, Dance Camps that include dancing, singing, acting, arts and crafts, and memory book creations, plus summer dance sessions, drop-in classes, private dance and yoga lessons, walking groups, Dance Family Days, Yoga Events & Workshops, and space rental.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer dance sessions run over a 5-week period, Monday through Thursday afternoons, with specific weeks offered at both the North Bend and Carnation studios; supervised walking groups run on school days from local elementary schools to the studios.
• Price: There is a $20 registration fee; each student may attend one free trial class, and additional trials are $22 per drop-in class.
IGNITE Dance & Yoga opened with two studio rooms in the fall of 2010, notes 14 years and two locations, and is celebrating its 13th season while starting season 14. The program offers five spacious studios available for hourly and daily rental. The stated mission is to offer movement classes to all ages and abilities, with an emphasis on community, artistry, and athleticism through recreational dance and yoga classes, and to serve as a place where people of all ages and abilities can thrive in a supportive environment. The studio describes itself as the premiere studio in Snoqualmie Valley and Carnation and notes that its Competition Team in North Bend and Carnation Performing Group in Carnation serve dancers ages 5–19, with auditions in Jazz, Musical Theatre, Contemporary, Lyrical, Ballet level placement, Tap, and Hip Hop, and that these groups focus on dedication, encouragement, growth, and community.
Owner and Director Katie Black has 23 years of teaching experience, ten years as a professional dancer, and yoga certification through 8 Limbs Yoga Center and Yoga Alliance, and has received national recognition for choreography through the Industry Dance Awards and national competitions, as well as local acknowledgment for excellence in teaching. The leadership team includes Katie Black (Owner & Director), Lisa Wiess (Administrative Specialist & Team Liaison), Pamela Allen (Assistant Director of IGNITE Competition Teams), and Brittany Mains (Co-Director of IGNITE Dance Carnation). Pamela Allen is described as an accomplished dancer, teacher, and choreographer with experience as Artistic Director of Synergy Performing Company, Owner/Director of Turning Pointe Dance Academy, director of the Tri-Cities Dance Association, choreographer/instructor for Universal Dance Association, department head for ballet, tap, and jazz, guest choreographer for the Academy of Children’s Theater and The Tri-Cities Juneteenth Pageant, guest speaker on dance topics across the Pacific Northwest and West Coast, and co-founder of Beat BangerZ and the nonprofit Portland Tap Alliance.
IGNITE Dance & Yoga notes strong support from the Snoqualmie Valley community, friends, and family in opening the studio. Katie Black serves as a board member for the Washington State Dance Studio Owners Coalition, and the Portland Tap Alliance co-founded by Pamela Allen has partnered with other arts-based nonprofit organizations to promote the arts. The studio highlights a focus on both artistry and athleticism, an emphasis on community, encouragement, mentorship, and building confidence, and offers chances for dancers to compete, perform, give back, and participate on and off the stage.
Families are asked to provide a dance bag and water bottle, label all shoes, and use cubbies in the lobby hallway for belongings, which are donated at the end of each month if left behind. Students must follow a dress code for youth classes, including specific attire and shoes for Ballet, Prepointe, Pointe, Preballet, PBT, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strength, Creative Movement, Tap, Hip Hop, Creative Expression, Tumbling, and Combo Classes, wear non-dance shoes to and from the studio and when walking to the yoga studio, and wear coverups over leotards and tights before and after class. The studio sells tights, directs families to Dancewear Center in Kirkland or Renton for other dancewear and shoes, and offers IGNITE-branded coverups and dancewear through SquadLocker.
Last updated June 12, 2026.
• Ages: 2–18 years old
• Schedule: Summer dance sessions run over a 5-week period, Monday through Thursday afternoons, with specific weeks offered at both the North Bend and Carnation studios; supervised walking groups run on school days from local elementary schools to the studios.
• Price: There is a $20 registration fee; each student may attend one free trial class, and additional trials are $22 per drop-in class.
IGNITE Dance & Yoga opened with two studio rooms in the fall of 2010, notes 14 years and two locations, and is celebrating its 13th season while starting season 14. The program offers five spacious studios available for hourly and daily rental. The stated mission is to offer movement classes to all ages and abilities, with an emphasis on community, artistry, and athleticism through recreational dance and yoga classes, and to serve as a place where people of all ages and abilities can thrive in a supportive environment. The studio describes itself as the premiere studio in Snoqualmie Valley and Carnation and notes that its Competition Team in North Bend and Carnation Performing Group in Carnation serve dancers ages 5–19, with auditions in Jazz, Musical Theatre, Contemporary, Lyrical, Ballet level placement, Tap, and Hip Hop, and that these groups focus on dedication, encouragement, growth, and community.
Owner and Director Katie Black has 23 years of teaching experience, ten years as a professional dancer, and yoga certification through 8 Limbs Yoga Center and Yoga Alliance, and has received national recognition for choreography through the Industry Dance Awards and national competitions, as well as local acknowledgment for excellence in teaching. The leadership team includes Katie Black (Owner & Director), Lisa Wiess (Administrative Specialist & Team Liaison), Pamela Allen (Assistant Director of IGNITE Competition Teams), and Brittany Mains (Co-Director of IGNITE Dance Carnation). Pamela Allen is described as an accomplished dancer, teacher, and choreographer with experience as Artistic Director of Synergy Performing Company, Owner/Director of Turning Pointe Dance Academy, director of the Tri-Cities Dance Association, choreographer/instructor for Universal Dance Association, department head for ballet, tap, and jazz, guest choreographer for the Academy of Children’s Theater and The Tri-Cities Juneteenth Pageant, guest speaker on dance topics across the Pacific Northwest and West Coast, and co-founder of Beat BangerZ and the nonprofit Portland Tap Alliance.
IGNITE Dance & Yoga notes strong support from the Snoqualmie Valley community, friends, and family in opening the studio. Katie Black serves as a board member for the Washington State Dance Studio Owners Coalition, and the Portland Tap Alliance co-founded by Pamela Allen has partnered with other arts-based nonprofit organizations to promote the arts. The studio highlights a focus on both artistry and athleticism, an emphasis on community, encouragement, mentorship, and building confidence, and offers chances for dancers to compete, perform, give back, and participate on and off the stage.
Families are asked to provide a dance bag and water bottle, label all shoes, and use cubbies in the lobby hallway for belongings, which are donated at the end of each month if left behind. Students must follow a dress code for youth classes, including specific attire and shoes for Ballet, Prepointe, Pointe, Preballet, PBT, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Stretch & Strength, Creative Movement, Tap, Hip Hop, Creative Expression, Tumbling, and Combo Classes, wear non-dance shoes to and from the studio and when walking to the yoga studio, and wear coverups over leotards and tights before and after class. The studio sells tights, directs families to Dancewear Center in Kirkland or Renton for other dancewear and shoes, and offers IGNITE-branded coverups and dancewear through SquadLocker.
Last updated June 12, 2026.
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