Meet Our Faculty

Vince-John Frijas

Vince-John started his dance career by imitating Michael Jackson and watching his brother compete as numerous break dancing events.  In high school, he joined his step/dance team, Crimson Haze, where he crossed paths with Greg Baja, Joey Cooper, and Bryan Tanaka.  After being hired at The Image Studio of Dance in 2004, he began developing his teaching and artistry. In 2011, he began regularly teaching at Westlake Dance Center.  This is where he trained with Hannah Wintrode, Daniel Cruz, Ivan Koumaev, Ryan & Christina Chandler, John Roque, Yoshi Wright, Aaron Gordon, and Kolanie Marks. He's performed with many northwest community dance groups such as Cruz Control, Phyzikal Graffi-T, Twisted Elegance, BoomKatzz, Electriq, and Kontagious Movement.

He is currently the Artistic and Hip-Hop Director at The Image Studio of Dance, where he teaches and choreographs for TeamISOD.  His credits include Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Dance-Off", Vicci Martinez' "Stay Awake", Bungee's  "Destiny", The Village Theatre's "In The Heights", and Seahawks Dancers' Dance Captain and Choreographer.

Lauren Setten

Director of Jazz, Lyrical, and Contemporary

Lauren has been dancing since she could walk and began her pre-professional training in ballet, pointe, modern, and jazz at Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson, Wyoming. As a young member of their repertory company she was given the opportunity to work and learn from many notable choreographers and companies including San Diego Ballet, Elisa Monte, Richard Alston, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, New York City Ballet, and Diavolo Dance Theater. While attending the University of Puget Sound to earn her degree, Lauren became very involved with the University's Repertory Dance Group and began to teach and choreograph as a guest artist around the Seattle/Tacoma area. Lauren began working at Image Studio of Dance in 2010 and has dedicated her life to teaching, mentoring, and inspiring the students who walk into the doors of the studio. As a choreographer for the Image Performing Company she has been awarded at regional and national levels for her excellence in original and inventive choreography, the strong technical training of her students, and the high entertainment value of her pieces. Lauren works primarily for Image Studio of Dance, but continues to guest teach and choreograph all over the Seattle/Tacoma arts community. She also serves as a board member and choreographer for the Miss Washington’s Outstanding Teen Program.

Lauren has over 10 years of professional teaching and choreography experience, and she works hard to create dancers who are not only technically strong, but who are confident and passionate artists. She believes that dance is about creating something meaningful, and she is dedicated to keeping true to her core values that she learned as she was training. Lauren strives to not just educate her students in performance arts, but to teach them meaningful lessons that they will carry with them through life.

Lorraine Constantine

Director of Ballet

Lorraine Constantine has dedicated her life to the study, practice, and performance of dance. She performs, choreographs, teaches, coaches, and produces dance throughout the Puget Sound region. She trained on scholarship at Tacoma City Ballet and attended summer programs on full merit scholarship at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Spectrum Dance Theater, and Dance Theater of Harlem. Lorraine pursued an education in international studies with a minor in Spanish language and culture, and human rights at the University of Washington Tacoma, and served as a medical interpreter for medical missions in Honduras for several years. She has worked as a background artist in several commercial projects for Apple and Microsoft, films including 21 and Over, Laggies, The Architect and TV series such as Twin Peaks and Station 19. Lorraine has had the privilege of collaborating with numerous, incredibly talented and notable dancers, choreographers, musicians, designers, and artists on the stage, behind the scenes, and in the studio. She currently dances for Stone Dance Collective in Bellevue, WA, and has previously danced for City Opera Ballet, the Mov!ng Company, and with many other independent artists and musicians. She serves as the Director of Ballet for Image Studio of Dance where her choreography has received numerous awards at the national level, and has been teaching at the Tacoma School of the Arts since 2016. In 2019 she was certified in the junior, senior, and advanced programs with Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT). It is Lorraine’s passion to instill in her students a profound appreciation, proficiency, and respect for the technical foundations, physical demands, and history of ballet, as well as a deep love for the freedom and self-expression of the art form, and to carry these lessons with them throughout their lives. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once…”-Nietzche

Angel Williams

Director of Pixie Program

Born and raised in University Place, WA, Angel has spent most of her life immersed in the local dance community, and now building a career in the arts. She has been a dancer for 13 years, and currently teaches and directs at the Image Studio of Dance, where she grew up dancing. Angel also teaches hip hop at The School of the Arts in downtown Tacoma as an adjunct artist. Although hip hop is her style of choice, she has also trained and competed in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and contemporary. Groups that she has danced and trained alongside with include Seahawks Dancers, Breed, Cruz Control(Daniel Cruz), Westsiders (Hannah Wintrode) & Team ISOD. Trying to balance teaching and taking class is something that is very important to her, as her growing knowledge allows her to provide her students with the best learning experience. Angel is extremely grateful for all of the opportunities the dance world has provided her, and loves that she has found a passion that supports her.