Our Instructors are trained and certified specifically to teach a range of abilities and ages over 50.
Melissa Kubik
Melissa has been teaching dance for over 35 years. Her first love is Ballet with her early training in the Cecchetti Method. She has studied many other styles of dance as well, including Tap (Al Gilbert), Jazz (Gus Giordano, Lou Conte) and Modern (Martha Graham). She achieved the role of Soloist with the Grand Rapids Civic Ballet, where she had the opportunity to work with guest artists and choreographers such as Conrad Ludlow, Cherie Noble and Patricia McBride. She spent two seasons as an Apprentice with the Joffrey Concert Dancers and a year as a Trainee with Ballet Michigan. She continued her training at the Chicago City Ballet under the direction of Maria Tallchief, Paul Mejia and Homer Bryant, as well as the Ellis-DuBoulay School of Ballet, Lou Conte Studio, Boston Ballet and Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts.
After moving to Colorado in 2008, she has continued to teach dance in Denver, Castle Rock and Colorado Springs. She is a Board Member of the Colorado Dance Education Organization co-deo.org and a Silver Swans® Licensee.
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Heather Hunt
Heather was born to dance! Her natural dance rhythm and ability was first revealed when she was just 9 months old as her mom noticed her moving precisely to the beat of the music playing on TV. Later on, Heather even taught her elementary school classmates how to tap their feet to the beat of the music. Her passion for dance fueled her pursuit of learning and achieving excellence in many different dance styles throughout her life. She has danced in the styles of Ballet (Color Guard), Basic Ballroom (Trained with Ken & Miye Ota in Cha Cha, East Coast Swing, Fox Trot, Mambo, Merengue, Nightclub Two Step, Rumba, Salsa, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Waltz), Country Swing, Country Two Step (Trained with Monty & Kristin Ham), Dance Fitness with Jazzercise and Zumba (Certified Instructor since 2015), Hip Hop, Irish Dancing, Jazz (Arvada Center & Color Guard), Lindy Hop (Trained with Rob van Haaren), Line Dancing, Modern (Color Guard), and West Coast Swing (Trained with Monty & Kristin Ham). She has performed and competed in the following dance styles: Jazz, Color Guard (Ballet, Jazz, Modern), Country Two Step, Line Dancing, and West Coast Swing.
She has taught dance in the following dance styles: Basic Ballroom (As a Teacher’s Assistant), Color Guard, Line Dancing, and Zumba Dance Fitness. She is in the process of obtaining her AFAA certification in Group Fitness and also has experience choreographing dance routines for Color Guard and Line Dancing. Heather loves dancing for the pure joy of it, performing dance routines, and teaching people to connect their own movements to the music around them.