My Instructors
World Renown and Widely Known
I have been so honored to have be taught under so many incredible, well-known teachers throughout the course of my ballet "career". Though each one came from a different background of teaching styles, they individually impacted me and my ballet techniques. I am the dancer I am today because of my teachers and their confidence and trust in me as a dancer. They taught me to always believe in myself and to never quit.
Paul Mejia
Director of Mejia International Ballet and former dancer with New York City Ballet.
Maria Terezia Balogh
Former principal dancer with Chicago Ballet and now is an instructor at Mejia International.
Michele Gifford
Former dancer with New York City Ballet, performer with Texas Ballet Theater, Ballet Concerto, and Mejia International.
Carrie Cheng
Carrie Cheng began at the Miami conservatory and after receiving a full scholarship to dance at the University of Utah, went on to dance professionally with numerous companies including the Utah Ballet, Eugene Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Boston, North Atlantic Ballet and Ballet Concerto. She is currently an instructor of ballet for Texas Ballet Theater School in Fort Worth and is the director of ballet at Fort Worth Country Day.
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Gayle Corkery
Studied at American Ballet Theater in New York City and performed with Fort Worth Ballet and Dallas State Fair Musicals. Taught ballet in Germany for two years and then opened Gayle Corkery's School of Ballet in 1970.
Olga Pavlova
Russian prima ballerina who graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, has toured over 30 countries, and now helps stage ballets for Paul Mejia.
Li Chou Cheng
Began his training at age thirteen in the Beijing Dance Academy and later became a Principle teacher for the Boston Ballet Academy. Mr. Cheng is currently instructing at Texas Christian University as a Professor of Professional Practice in Ballet and Modern Dance.
Margo McCann
Was a principal dancer with Texas Ballet Theater for over 18 years. McCann also was the Company Manager and Managing Director for Texas Ballet Theater and now is a franchise owner for Pure Barre in New York.
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