MICHELLE MELVIN-PERRY Michelle is thrilled to come on board with such a talented, positive group of teachers and students. She started at SLA over a summer session working on GLEE camp and fell in love with the students and the hard working, fun loving philosophy of the studio. Michelle started her dance education at her Grandmother’s dance studio and comes from a family of dance instructors including her mother, who currently is choreographing for a line dance team. She then studied Ballet at Portland Ballet School of East with Sarah Whale. She joined Cheryl Greeley’s competition team in 1992, and from there Cheryl opened the doors to the musical theater world. Michelle was in her first musical theater production at Lyric Theater and from there she performed at Portland Players, Arundel Barn Playhouse, and Maine State Music Theater. She took her love for the stage and moved to NYC and studied dance at Broadway Dance Center. She got an agent and was in Feature Films with Jim Carey, Jack Black, and Ben stiller. She was in a Law and Order – criminal intent episode, and she also performed in a Mountain Dew Amp commercial for MTV at BCBG. She loves to work with children and her favorite style of dance is lyrical contemporary. She looks forward to continuing her love for dance and choreography with SLA.