Teachers

 Melissa McCreary, owner and teacher, began teaching dance in January 2000 at the Lone Star Ballet satellite academy in Borger, TX. She also taught for Lone Star Ballet in Canyon, Amarillo, and Hereford before finishing her dance degree at WTAMU. She performed professionally in TEXAS Musical Drama for four seasons, and danced in many Lone Star Ballet productions. After finishing college, Melissa lived overseas in Cairo, Egypt, where she was able to take classes with the Cairo Opera Ballet. She traveled to many countries including Jordan, Cyprus, India, Spain and Morocco before returning home to Texas. She met Brett McCreary when she came back to WTAMU to pursue an English degree. They married in 2005 and spent their early married years in Bandung, Indonesia, where they worked for various non-profit NGO companies before coming back to Perryton. Melissa has spent the last 17 years in love with owning her own studio and passionate about arts education in rural areas. She is a certified and degreed member of Dance Masters of American Chapter 35. The McCrearys have two sons: Ben is a freshman at Wayland Baptist University, and Josiah is an 9th grader at Perryton High School. Brett is a cancer survivor who bravely battles his subsequent dysautonomia, and enjoys helping his wife pick out music for class and recital. Melissa also teaches English at Perryton High School; so if you call in the middle of the day, chances are she's attempting to get 16 year old students to understand commas.