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Melissa
Meadows McGuffin
(Owner/Choreographer -
Preschool, Jazz, Tap)
Melissa began
dance at the age of three taking classes in tap
and ballet, and later in jazz and baton. During
her Junior High school years, she taught dance
and baton for the Beverly Hills Youth Football
League. In High School, she was a member of the
Huntington High Pony Express Majorette Corps for
2 years and the Slight Touch Dance Team for 3
years. She began teaching again while attending
college at Marshall University. Before opening her own studio in Fall 2002,
she choreographed for area studios, Pea Ridge and 5th
Avenue Theater Companies and spent summer performing for
the Huntington Outdoor Theatre Company. She has
choreographed for 1st Stage Theater
Company’s HONK! and Babes In Toyland and
Alexander Who's Not Going to Move; for
Fairland High School’s spring theater shows,
Where’s Charlie?, Grease, Music Man, and
Footloose and Cinderella; and for Huntington High School’s
spring shows, Grease and Cinderella. She has
choreographed several Christmas and Competition
shows for for Huntington High School’s
Illusions Show Choir. Melissa's primary focus is
with preschool and elementary children
teaching Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Baton and Mommy &
Me. She
and her husband, Aaron, have two wonderful
children, Katelyn and Ryan. Melissa is from Huntington, WV.
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Tonya Farley Parker (Instructor - Twirling, Tap, Jazz)
Tonya has been
dancing since she was 4 years old. She took
lessons in jazz, tap, ballet, and Pointe from
Summersville Dance Theatre. She was a member of
her High School Dance Team and was captain for 2
years. Tonya began twirling when she was 7 years
old. Growing up in Summersville, WV, she was a
member of the Summersville Missyettes. While
attending Nicholas County High School, she was a
member of the majorette corps from 1986-89 and
was named Head Majorette for the 1987-89
seasons. Tonya was also a Marshall University
Majorette from 1989-90. Tonya has both
instructed and choreographed routines for
several high school majorette groups. She was a
judge at the Governor's Cup Marching
Championship in Summersville for many years. A
graduate of MU, she is married to Dicky and has
two children, Madison and Ben. Tonya teaches
twirling classes, tap and Jazz classes.
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Shea Goodrich (Instructor - Tap)
Shea graduated from
Marshall University with a degree in Biology,
and attends Marshall University School of
Medicine. She began dancing at age 3 with ballet
and tap and later took classes in gymnastics and
jazz. She has danced on Huntington High School’s
Dance team, Christ Temple Church’s Dance team,
and has taken classes in tap, modern, folk,
African drum, and musical dance theatre. Shea teaches our upper level
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Christine Cline (Instructor -
Jazz, Preschool)
Christine began dance at the age of 3 years old.
She took ballet, tap, jazz, and modern at the
Turning Pointe Dance Studio in Huntington for 8
years. Christine has also danced in several
theater productions. She is a sophmore at
Marshall University. Christine teaches Jazz, Hip
Hip and preschool classes. |
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Melissa Cremeans (Instructor -
Baton, Tap, Jazz)
Melissa is in her 2nd year
teaching Tap, Baton, and preschool
classes. She was a majorette at Vinson High
School and their Color Guard instructor in
1994-1999. In 2000-2002, she coached Chesapeake
High School's Color Guard. She tapped for 8 yrs
at Nancy's School of Dance and danced in their
Forever Young group. Melissa earned an
Elementary Education degree from Marshall
University and currently teaches first grade at
Chesapeake Elementary. She is married to Greg
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Ashley
Matheny (Instructor - Tap, Ballet) |
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Tori Craft (Instructor -
Hip Hop, Jazz)
Tori began
dance in first grade and continued through high
school taking classes in tap, modern, ballet,
jazz, and lyrical from the Princeton Dance
Studio. She is a graduate of Princeton Senior
High where she danced on the Princeton High
Dance Team serving as its captain her Senior
year. From 2002-2006, she performed with the
Princeton Performing Arts Company (PPAC)
traveling and performing at various competitions
and conventions. In the summer of 2008, she
worked as a contemporary jazz instructor for
PPAC. Tori is dancing for her fourth and final year with
Marshall University's Dance Team and is studying
Photography as her college major. She plans to
graduate in 2011 with a degree in Art and open
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Katelyn
McGuffin (Assistant)
Katelyn is a Sophomore at Huntington High
School. She enters her 13th year of dance having
taken classes in ballet, pre-pointe, tap, jazz,
baton, hip hop, and lyrical. She has been in
several community musicals including Carnival
and Annie as well as many in her church and
schools. She has directed choreography for
Beverly Hills Baptist Church and New Baptist
Church's youth and children and for Premiere
Dance Studio's Summer Dance classes.
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Alyssa Hall (Assistant)
Alyssa began dance at the age of 3
years taking tap and ballet. She later took
classes in tap, jazz, pre pointe, and hip hop.
She is a is a Junior at Huntington High School
and member of HHS's Dance Team participating in
several competitions throughout the year. Alyssa
works with our early elementary students in tap,
ballet, jazz, and baton. |
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Morgan Howell (Assistant)
Morgan is a
Junior at Covenant School in Huntington. She has eight years of dance experience
in tap, jazz, and lyrical. She is also a member of the ARTS Show Choir.
Morgan assists in our lyrical classes |
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