SHAC School of Dance Instructors
 

Megan Ciccoline White
Director of SHAC School of Dance
Megan Ciccoline White has been teaching dance in the middle Tennessee area for over 9 years and with SHAC School of Dance for four of those years. Megan has traveled across the country teaching dance, pilates, and doing wardrobe for multiple touring acts, including Lord of the Dance. Her choreography can be seen in music videos, theater productions, and high school dance teams. Megan has been a certified pilates instructor for six years. Her focus is to inspire students through the art of dance while teaching classical technique, proper alignment, and injury prevention.   




Chelsea Kirkham Howell 
Chelsea Kirkham Howell is pleased to be able to share her experiences and passion for the love the Classical Arts with the dedicated students at SHAC.  Mrs. Howell was just Awarded Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts Outstanding Teacher Award.  She had been selected by one of her students, Sara Scherba, faculty, and staff of the Governor’s School for the Arts for special commendation as one of Tennessee’s outstanding educators.  She has instructed for 17 years in studios throughout Idaho, Alabama and Tennessee. She has danced principal roles in companies such as DanzArts, Ballet Idaho and Performing Dance Arts and has trained with Ballet West, Idaho Dance Arts Alliance, and Summer Dance Lab (an affiliate of the Joffrey Ballet). Mrs. Howell has choreographed for DanzArts, Performing Dance Arts, Maury County Arts Guild (Once upon a Mattress), Spring Hill Arts Center (Land of Sweets, Nunsense and Nutcracker) as well as won "best choreography" for Huntsville Community Chorus (Fiddler on the Roof).  She is the wife of James Howell and is the mother of two heaven sent children.   




Ginny Primeaux 

First and for most dance is my passion in life, teaching allows me to share my passion for this art to others. I have danced for seventeen years. I started dancing at Howards Dance Academy, where I also began my teaching career. When I was fifteen, I was a dance assistant at Howards. My sophomore year in high school is when I began at Step Ahead Dance this where my dance career really began to bloom. I was certified with Southern Association of Dance Masters as a dance teacher, I taught Ballet, Tap, Acrobats and Hip Hop; I competed with Steps Ahead for three years. Also that year I danced with the Nashville Ballet in the Nutcracker production in a small role…what an experience! I have recently graduated from Western Kentucky University, with a BFA in Performing Arts with a concentration of Dance and a minor in Entrepreneurship.   WKU Dance Company has allowed me to express my dance in several different ways. I studied Classical Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, Point, Hip Hop, Tap, Salsa, and Tango. I performed with WKU Dance Company for three years in several school productions. I have also attended ACDFA, Jazz Dance World Congress, and recently performed in Italy with the Dance Company. I have also done some behind the scenes with school production such as: Assistant choreographed for a school production of Sweet Charity, choreographed for student dance shows, I have been on hair and costumes crews for production as well. And now I have made a home at Spring Hill Arts Center.

Student Teachers 



Grace Dengler

Grace Dengler has taught at SHAC for the past four years. She loves sharing her passion for dance with young girls. She is presently studying dance at Franklin School of Performing Arts in Franklin, TN. Grace has attended various summer dance intensive including Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Magnificat, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She spent the past summer in Austin, TX with the American Ballet Theatre. Grace plans to pursue a career in professional ballet immediately following her high school graduation.

 

Chelsy Scherba 
Chelsy has danced since she was three years of age.  At the age of seven, she performed in Opryland's 'A Country Christmas' as the lead child character singing, acting and dancing.  She has been a part of various community performances through out the years, including the Mid-South Ballet's Nutcracker, The Nashville ballet's Nutcracker, a Production of Les Sylphides and most recently dancing in the Spring Hill Arts Center's production of  'Land of the Sweets’ as the Sugar Plum Fairy.  In 2004 she auditioned and was one of 12 chosen in the state of Tennessee to receive a full scholarship to attend Governor's School For The Arts for a four week intensive in which she studied Modern, Ballet, Pointe, Jazz and Character classes and gave a performance at the end of the Month. Chelsy is thrilled to be a staff member at SHAC and hopes to pass on her love of dance to others through her teaching. 


Sara Scherba 
Sara has been dancing for nearly fourteen years, training in Ballet, Jazz, Tap and Modern styles.  She won "Young Dancer" award at her dance studio in 2001 and was awarded a two-week dance intensive. Sara has won various state/talent pageants singing and modeling, and was the country music video "It Just about Covers it" with Rich McCready in 1997 as well as doing community musicals and plays over the years, and performed at nursing homes at Christmas and the Cool Springs Mall.  She's participated in various dance/ballet productions, which include Les Slyphides and a duet at the Franklin School of Performing Arts ballet concert in 2004. "The Nutcracker" for the Nashville ballet, Mid-south Ballet, and Spring Hill Arts Center.  Sara recently auditioned and was accepted out of thirteen in the state to go to the Governors School for the Arts summer 2008 for a five week intensive program for dance in which she stayed at MTSU and studied college level courses for Advanced ballet/pointe, modern, physical therapy/injury prevention, partnering, and had many performance opportunities and a chance to work with other gifted students in music, visual arts, and dance.  She has worked as a teaching assistant for young children since she was eleven, and has been working at Spring Hill Arts Studio teaching her own classes since 2007.  She is thrilled to be in a school that promotes the classical art of ballet and loves to encourage and share her love for dancing with children.