Today is the day you choose Artistic Intensity as your dance & tumbling family!
We have been a family business for over 45 years in the Quad Cities, with our director Lexy Ludtke, taking ownership in 2016. We focus on creating a more private school setting that provides our students with consistent training throughout their education and in-depth instruction to help every student, at every age and level, reach their full potential. Through dance and tumbling, you will learn dedication, responsibility, discipline, teamwork, independence, and more essential life skills that can be applied to whatever future you dream of! We promote camaraderie throughout our school and aim to create a dance family that our students and their families can trust and rely on. We ensure that our students are well-rounded artists by offering a wide repertoire of dance genres and have formulated programs for proper development at each age group and level. We have parent participation classes for our tiniest students, combo classes for beginner students of all ages to help them build a strong foundation, and individual class genres for our intermediate-advanced students to ensure they are placed in a class where they will excel! We take pride in providing numerous performance opportunities for our students at many local parades and community events. We also host seasonal showcases throughout the year, including our summer and winter-themed shows, as well as our formal spring showcase in which we put on a large theatrical production for our students to show off their talents to all of their family and friends! Our choreography and costuming have won numerous awards, including multiple nationally recognized choreography awards and national champion performers! Together, our students and staff's hard work has earned them great success in the competition world, as well as going on to professional careers in our industry!
Artistic Director / Owner
Lexy Ludtke
Miss Lexy was born into the dance studio environment and began training as soon as she could walk. She has trained in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Modern, Contemporary, Acrobatics, Poms, Ballroom, and Cheerleading as well as supplementing her musical background with training in vocal and various musical instruments. She was a 4-year member her high school cheerleading and dance teams, performed 3 years with the "All Iowa Honor Dance & Drill Team" and named a CSA "All Star" cheerleader. Outside of school, Lexy was an all-star cheerleader and competitive dancer. She won several grand champion awards, scholarships, judges' awards, and photogenic titles at regional and national dance competitions, including KAR Nationals in which she was featured on the cover of their regional program books. She was an Iowa State Fair Bill Riley Talent Search Semi-Finalist 11 times, a Sprout Champion and a Senior Finalist. In the dance studio, Lexy became a student assistant at age 12, working her way up to full-time Instructor and has now been a full-time instructor and choreographer for 20 years. At 15, Lexy directed her first workshop for radio station B100 promoting the Cheetah Girls concert. She has been a featured dancer in many shows throughout the Quad Cities including working as a back-up dancer performing at many events including the opening act for T-Pain and Soulja Boy on their Midwest Tour. Lexy was producer/choreographer and featured dancer for the unveiling of "Internal Injuries: Effects of Verbal Abuse" displayed at the Bucktown Arts Center and multiple presentations of "Thriller" including at the "Tribute to Michael Jackson" night at the Capitol Theatre. As a school dance team choreographer, her pieces have earned high ratings at various solo and team competitions. Lexy took over ownership of her dance school in 2016 and renovated it to become Artistic Intensity! Lexy has been certified in First Aid/CPR through American Red Cross, Youth Protection Advocate in Dance, Heads Up! Concussions in Youth Sports, and the United States All Star Federation. Lexy continues to further her dance education, perform, and choreograph for dancers throughout the state of Iowa. As a studio owner and artistic director, her students have won numerous grand champion awards, national titles, special judges' awards, and scholarships. Her unique choreography and creative concepts have earned high awards throughout the country including multiple Best Choreography, Most Entertaining, Top Teacher, and Best Costume awards for her handcrafted custom costumes.
Assistant Director / Manager
Lolly Ludtke
Miss Lolly has been teaching and training dancers throughout Iowa and Illinois for over 40 years. She has training in the styles of Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Modern, Contemporary, Tumbling, and Poms. As a dancer, she was a featured performer in several local community shows as well as county and state pageants. At age 17, after teaching for a few area studios, she opened her own dance center, Dance Unlimited. Lolly became the choreographer for several area shows, musicals, show choirs, drill/dance teams, and pageants, including producing and choreographing for the Miss Blackhawk Valley, Miss Scott County, and Miss Iowa Pageants. She has also choreographed for many local and state pageant contestants who became title winners. Lolly was director, choreographer, and featured performer for the Illinois Blackhawks Semi-Pro Football Team’s “Honey Hawks” dance team for both their regular season and their 1977 European tour performing in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. She served six seasons as the dance team coach for Davenport North High School during which they received many high competition ratings and recognition for academic excellence. For decades, her competition dance companies have won numerous awards and grand championships at local, regional, and state talent shows, as well as national dance competitions. She has also received many awards for Best Choreography throughout her career. Several of her dance students have gone on to succeed in the dance profession including teaching, owning their own studios, and dancing professionally in Las Vegas, Commercials, on Television, and on touring shows.