Emily Myers began dancing at the age of three.Ms. Myers began teaching jazz at the Academy in 1999. She was a founding member of Majestic Ballet Company and danced the lead roles in Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and many other pieces choreographed by the directors of the Company. She auditioned and was accepted to many summer intensives-Joffery Ballet in New York and San Antonio, Kansas City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and Ballet Austin where she received a partial scholarship. She moved to Austin in 2002 to further her studies and returned to North Texas in 2004. Emily teaches jazz, lyrical, hip hop, and technique classes. She is also the director of the competition teams. Emily spends her summers taking classes to keep up with the latest  moves.

For the past four years, Dina Vail has been the ballet mistress for the professional contemporary "Houston Metropolitan Dance Company" (The Met). In November 2003, Miss Vail choreographed a sixteen-minute piece for The Met's fall concert. Miss Vail received her first ballet training from Barbara Weisberger, the founder of the Pennsylvania Ballet. She continued her studies at Jacob's Pillow and Juilliard. Miss Vail has performed with many dance companies, including the Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theatre, the Tucson Civic Ballet, the Tucson Ballet Theatre, the Houston Contemporary Dance Theatre, New Dance Group and Theatre Under the Stars. Miss Vail has been a ballet teacher and choreographer since the early 1960's. She has taught and coached many dancers, including some who have become professionals. Miss Vail has chosen the Majestic Ballet, whose leading dancers she coached in 2000, to be the first company to perform a ballet that she has created based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale, "The Little Match Girl." The Grapevine ballet company's cast will include more than forty-nine dancers, varying in age from 9 to 50.

                                                               Allan Kinzie

In 2003, Mr. Kinzie accepted a position as Artist in Residence at Southern Methodist University where he set two original creations: "Scenes de Ballet" and "Trauma into Light".  Prior to this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Ballet Master and Choreographer for the  Oklahoma Festival Ballet .Mr. Kinzie was also an instructor at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the Boston Ballet School. His choreographies have been presented in Europe as well as in the United States with a focus on contempory composers and movement invention.  As a performer, he danced leading roles with Boston Ballet, Chicago City Ballet, Ballet Theatre Francais de Nancy, Ballet du Nord, and the Dallas Ballet.  Mr. Kinzie was accepted to three international competitions and has toured internationally to fifteen countries in over 100 performances with Rudolph Nureyev in his production of Don Quixote.  His television credits include guest staring as the Prince in Sleeping Beauty for the 1978, "Christmas at Walt Disney World Special" on NBC. 

                                                                 April Oas

April is a 19 year ex-Fhillies Lieutenant and graduate of Grapevine High School.  She has been dancing for 16 years and teaching the past 3 years.  It was during her first semester of college that she realized what she lived for -Her  passion to teach.  After moving back to Grapevine, and teaching yet once again, she noticed that teaching was her arrangement for life. She hopes to expand her teaching skilles while still improving in her own skills  so that it will assist her to become a well-rounded teacher.  She hopes her passion of dance and teaching is evident to her youthful students and hopes it will encourage them to follow their dreams, whichever it might be.  She also works to help each individual dancer fabricate to their utmost dancing ability, and shares with them this wonderful artistic movement.