Meet the Teachers

As a dance teacher, Megan feels that it is important for her students to feel confident, motivated and inspired. She wants all of her students to succeed and enjoy their hard work and dedication they put into dance. Megan teaches all genres and types of dance to students of all ages. Megan has competed in Dancing with the Ohio Valley Stars for several years and has won People’s Choice Award three times! She also participates in the Lip Sync Challenge every year to support A Special Wish Foundation.

From being a student of dance, to then becoming a teacher of dance and part of such a wonderful staff has been great. All of my dreams became reality when I purchased the studio and became the very proud owner of Studio MC Performing Arts Centre. Megan expresses, “The thing I love absolutely most about the dance studio is all of the people whom I get to share it with. You cannot get any luckier when your passion and career fall together. As a dance teacher/studio director, I love seeing all of the same things within my students I felt when I started my very first dance lesson many years ago. Being able to work with students who possess such wonderful talents and passion and have a great deal of potential is truly an honor. Dance is something I love and something I cannot live without. I am beyond thankful I have been given the opportunity to share my love of dance with so many wonderful dancers, parents and friends."

Megan has been the proud owner of Studio MC for 9 years!

"From the absolute bottom of my heart, I wish to thank the two people who helped grow my love of dance; Toni & Soozie Zeakes. Toni & Soozie you have truly made all of my dreams come true. Dance is a very big part of me, a part of who I am and I have you two to thank for that. I will love and cherish the studio just like you have taught me to. You two have been an inspiration to many children all throughout the Ohio Valley and I will continue to work hard every day to give my students an amazing role model to look up to just like I did with you two.”

-Megan

Alex also was a four-year member of an All-Star cheer team, the “Basics Superstars”, who competed and won four National Championships along with being awarded Grand Champs. After graduating high school in 2006, Alex decided to further her dance education at The University of Akron where she Minored in Performing Arts: Dance studying jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, and modern.

She also received her Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science: Coaching and Conditioning. While attending the University, Alex was a member of the dance team for two years and a cheerleader for three years.

The University of Akron Cheerleaders competed in Daytona, FL in the NCA Collegiate Championships where they placed 5th overall in 2008 and 2009, and 4th overall in 2010. Also during her college career, she was a three-year member of an AFL dance team, the “Goddesses”, for the Cleveland Gladiators, and a two-year cheer instructor for a cheer company called Cheerleaders of America (COA) in which she traveled across the country teaching cheerleaders of all ages.

After graduating college in 2011, Alex became the new Head Spirit Coach for her Alumni, The University of Akron, where she coached the dance team and cheerleaders for three years. While coaching at the University, both the cheerleaders and dance team competed in the NCA/NDA Collegiate Championships. Both teams had placed and scored their highest in school history.

In 2014, Alex returned home to the Ohio Valley where she currently resides. In 2014-2015, she assisted in coaching the St. Clairsville Junior High Cheerleaders who placed second in the Jr OVAC Competition. In 2015-2016, she assisted in coaching the Wheeling Middle School Cheerleaders who placed second in the Jr OVAC Competition and second in the PAC 8 Competition. She also choreographed a competition routine for the Bridgeport High School Cheerleaders, who placed third in the OVAC Competition for the first time in school history.

Also in 2014, Alex returned to Toni Zeakes Performing Arts Centre where she taught dance for two years. She is currently a dance instructor and choreographer for Studio MC Performing Arts Centre where she has been teaching all genres of dance for the past six years and coaching the Studio MC Royalty All-Star cheer teams for five years. She also just recently became the new Bridge Street Middle School Cheer Coach. 

While in Philadelphia, Caleb studied ballet, jazz, and modern dance at the prestigious Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center, and did intensives at the Rock School and Point Park University during the summers. Graduating in 2008 from Philadelphia Mennonite High School in Philadelphia, Caleb then enrolled in Philadelphia’s University of the Arts where he continued his dance education for four more years. Over his 12 years of professional dance education, he became proficient in all styles of dance, choreography, and dance terminology. 

Caleb returned to the Ohio Valley and began to teach at various schools and dance centers, exercising his additional gifts as a teacher who can help a child or adult find the natural dancer inside themselves and express their talents to the very best of their ability. Just as he was helped to push beyond his original self-expectations, he now inspires his students to reach new levels of personal excellence.

Over the past 10 years, Caleb has taught dance and gymnastics at Barnesville Dance Workshop, Wheeling Country Day School, The Linsly School, Take A Bow Dance Centre, Dance By Hillary, and now his fourth year at Studio MC.

Caleb has also contributed to community causes such as raising money for the Augusta Levy Center by participating in Dancing with the Ohio Valley Stars. He is excited to be part of Studio MC PAC’s highly skilled team as he instructs a new generation of performers in jazz, ballet, pointe, modern, lyrical, acro/contortion, ballroom and gymnastics.