Brenda Mealor

Mrs. Brenda (pictured center) has been teaching for 37 years. The first 2 at her hometown studio,  the next 12 as the assistant director at Becky Jones School of dance in Smyrna and then the rest as the director of The Dancers Studio. Growing up, her family traveled to Auburn, AL each weekend for her to take dance from Mr. Lynn Curtis formerly of the New York City Ballet.  With him, she was able to go as his assistant to DMA conventions and study with some of the great dancers of the 70’s – Maria Tallchief, Gus Giordano, Frank Hatchet, Art Stone, Al Gilbert, Jo Rowan, and Edward Velellha. The Dancers Studio would not have come into being, without the support of her parents and husband. Brenda is married to Billy Mealor and they are celebrating 35 years of marriage this year. They have 2 daughters, Lesley Anne, who is a dancer in New York and Laura Lynn who lives in Kennesaw. Both girls have followed in their mom’s footsteps!

Mrs. Enger Clements Dickey

Enger (pictured left), having taught ballet and jazz around the Atlanta area for the past 15 years, found a home with The Dancers Studio in 2005. Prior to this, she was a dancer, teacher, and choreographer with the Northwest Florida Ballet. There she performed the lead roles in The Nutcracker, Coppelia, and Giselle along with neoclassic pieces by Tom Pazikv, Ron Cunningham and Jill Bahr.  Enger’s training includes studying under Robert Joffery of  The Joffery Ballet, Robert Barnett of The Atlanta Ballet and her mother, Bernadette Clements Sims.  Enger spends her day as a teacher at Hayes Elementary School. She was the Teacher of the Year in 2000 for Argyle Elementary School. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, her cat and 2 dogs, and spending time with her husband and step son. Enger lives in Cartersville.

Melissa Watson

Melissa (pictured right) will be starting her 7 year here at The Dancers Studio. Growing up in Cobb County, she had the opportunity to study with 4 of the leading teachers in the county:  Lynette Grub, Marcus Alford and Annie Day and Terrell Paulk. Melissa worked for TLC Dance Studio for several years prior to joining our staff. Here she works with all ages and levels and styles of dance. She was the choreographer of this past year’s Platinum Award Company I jazz dance, It’s Raining Men.  Melissa is married to Ron Watson and has 2 daughters age 4 and 7 and lives in Acworth.

Laura Mealor Holder

Laura is a 2008 graduate of Valdosta State University, where she was a member of the first place NDA dance team, The Red Hots, for 2 years. She trained under her
mother, Brenda Mealor, here at The Dancers Studio, where she was also one of the founding members of the dance company. Laura works with our 6 to 10 year old students in all areas of dance. She is a great motivator and brings out the dance diva in our young dancers! Laura is married to Nathan Holder and lives in Kennesaw.

Sheena Marnon Musinovic

Sheena Marnon Musinovic graduated with a B.A in dance performance from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. Towards the end of college, Sheena had the privilege of interning and attending classes in New York City at Merce Cunningham Dance Studio. After college, Sheena moved to Knoxville, Tennessee where she was the ballet mistress and an instructor for Angela Floyd School for the Dancer as well as a guest choreographer for Knox County Schools' Bearden High school show choir. Sheena also returned back to Winthrop to teach as an artist-in-residence for the South Carolina St-Arts program. Recently, she and her husband moved to Atlanta where she has joined the teaching staff at the Dancers Studio, as well as teaching for Becky Jones School for Dance, Downtown Dance, North GA Academy of Dance, and guest teacher/choreographer for the Dekalb School of the Arts. Sheena is also performing with the modern dance company, Gathering Wild.

Jenny Sparks

Jenny is a 26-year old who hails originally from Columbus, Georgia.  She earned a B.A. in Dance with an emphasis in Performance and Choreography with a minor in English from the University of Alabama.  She has been studying dance performance, pedagogy, choreography, and vocal performance for 24 years.  Jenny has had the pleasure of working under the direction of internationally and nationally recognized choreographers such as 2002 Carnegie Professor of the Year, Cornelius Carter, Edith Barnes, Rita Snyder, and Lori Bellilove.  She loves that as a child she was 'competition kid' and attended many classes in Manhattan every summer at Broadway Dance Center and at conventions such as NYCDA, Tremaine, Co. Dance, and West Coast Dance Explosion.  While attending UA she was a member of Dance Alabama, Alabama Repertory Dance Theater, and received a scholarship to work with Eileen Grace during the NYC Rockette Summer Intensive.  Also during college, Jenny had a wonderful opportunity to perform the Spanish Variation in The Nutcracker with the Great Moscow Ballet.  She has been a member of and run numerous successful competitive dance teams.  During that time she took home many titles including 2006 Alabama Teacher State Dance Champion, Miss UDA Georgia 2001, Miss Winners Regional’s and Nationals and was also named Who’s Who in Performing Arts for 2002.  In 2001, Jenny was named a Universal Dance Association All-Star and asked to perform in New York and Paris! Jenny's choreography was featured in an article in the 2005 October issue of Dancer Magazine.  She has worked in several theatre productions and prides herself on being a triple threat! Currently, she is living in Kennesaw, Georgia and is working on second Bachelors from Kennesaw State University in Secondary English Education.