Kathy is the Owner, President, and Artistic Director of Bunker Dance Center. Founded in 1994, Bunker Dance Center in fact began as Bunker Boogie Dance Studio, named in honor of Kathy’s mother, Beverly, who was affectionately known as “Boogie.” A dancer and teacher herself, Boogie instilled a deep love of dance within Kathy, and intimately shaped Kathy's lifelong passion for the art form.

Kathy holds a Master's Degree in the Arts from American University in Washington, D.C., and has performed around the world with Brigham Young University's International Folk Dance Company, where she also studied and performed Flamenco under the legendary Luisa Triana. Trained in Cecchetti and Vaganova ballet methods, tap, jazz, lyrical/contemporary, and musical theater, Kathy continues to bring her timeless brand of showmanship and a keen technical eye to choreography, rehearsals, and event production at Bunker Dance Center.

Today, in addition to leading her exceptional staff, Kathy has also embraced a newfound role of professional industry coach, where she shares her vast experience and hard won wisdom with young up and coming dance leaders. Under her guiding vision, Bunker Dance Center has grown into a fixture of Las Vegas's performing arts community. A fierce competitor and relentless worker, Kathy continues to shape this mission today.

In 1983, Kathy married her best friend, Chris Bunker. They remain lovingly married, and have four children and two grandchildren—the joys that make life truly complete!

Kenady began her career training at Bunker Dance Center under the artistic direction of her mother, Kathy Bunker. Kenady holds a BA in Elementary Education with a minor in Modern Dance from Brigham Young University, where she performed with the Tap Dance Company and taught tap for several semesters.

After college, Kenady brought her enormous heart and pedagogical expertise to India, where she joined the humanitarian organization Rising Star Outreach. Through Rising Star, Kenady worked directly with leprosy affected children living in the most extreme of conditions. After returning stateside, Kenady continued her dance career in earnest, teaching and choreographing for some of the most decorated studios in the country, including The Dance Club in Utah and Dance Connection in Arizona.

Steadfast, calm, and patient, Kenady is trained across every major discipline of dance, and spearheads all Dance Operations at Bunker Dance Center, including our pre-professional Company teams. Kenady remains guided by Kathy’s core belief that the well-rounded dancer is the best dancer. In 2025, Kenady married the love of her life, Patrick Ward.

Like his sister, Kenady, Blake grew up in the dance studio business. A varsity athlete in multiple sports, Blake also found himself immersed in competitive dance as a member of the very first Company team at Bunker Dance Center. There Blake trained as a competition hip hop dancer under the incomparable direction of Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo (Nappytabs). After college, Blake worked as a licensed mental health therapist in the state of Nevada for many years until deciding to change careers and return to the performing arts.

Since joining Bunker Dance Center as a full time executive, Blake has taken on the financial, operational, and strategic side of the family business. Whatever the studio needs, Blake is there to make it happen.

A creative soul at heart, Blake has written several full length novels, short stories, and novellas, and holds a BA in History with a minor in Philosophy from University of Nevada Las Vegas. In 2013, Blake married his high school sweetheart, Laurel Mattingly. Together they have one daughter, and you guessed it, she's a dancer!