Boca Dance Studio - Our Staff

DIRECTORS:

As professional dancers, Jo-D Meacham and Melanie Gibbs have performed throughout North America, Japan, Finland and the Caribbean for audiences of 20 to 20,000. They have worked with celebrities such as Meryl Streep, Greg Kinnear, Wayne Brady, Dick Clark, John Stamos, the Beach Boys, Bill Gates and Loretta Lynn. They were proud to work with the athletes of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta as well as perform in season openers for the Florida Marlins and Florida Panthers.

Jo-D and Melanie have both danced in live musical theater and countless industrial shows for clients such as Microsoft, The Discovery Channel, Pepsi, Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, The Riviera Las Vegas, Silja Cruise Line, IBM, Tupperware, Kroger Foods, Bellsouth and Coca-Cola. In addition, they have performed concert works with the Body and Soul Dance Theatre under Barbara Sloan and New World School of the Arts under Daniel Lewis. They have been invited to dance with River North Dance Chicago, DanceNow! Ensemble and the Radio City Rockettes.

As teachers and choreographers, Jo-D and Melanie have worked around the US and are known for their distinctive personal styles and award-winning competition choreography. They have choreographed for Dance Caravan, Ft. Lauderdale Children's Theater, French Woods Festival of Performing Arts, South Florida Youth Symphony and Junior League of Ft. Lauderdale. When not at BDS they travel as judges for national competition, do guest choreography and teach master classes for dance studios and organizations including Dance Masters of Florida. Most recently Jo-D and Melanie guest choreographed for studios in Knoxville, TN and Wellington, FL and exhibited choreography at the 7th Annual Choreographers' Ball.

STAFF:

DANIELA NASCIMENTO is a Royal Academy of Dancing certified teacher originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has 15 years of experience teaching ballet, pointe and character and 16 years of experience as a professional dancer. Daniela has performed locally for Boca Ballet Theatre and in Brazil for Ilara Lopes and Nice Leite Nucleo de Danca. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Education from the Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas in Sao Paulo and received her RAD certificates in 1997 from legendary ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, the president of the Royal Academy.

MEGAN MINOTTI is a BDS alumnus currently attending Florida Atlantic University. She is an experienced competitor and was a member of the Spanish River High School dance team for three years. Megan earned a scholarship to the Florida Dance Festival at New World School of the Arts and has trained at Broadway Dance Center's PULSE and Break the Floor's Jump! She has taught for PopStars Inc in addition to classes and camps at BDS.

BROOK PRIEBIS has 16 years of dance experience including BDS affiliate Dance Academy of North Lauderdale and Parkway Middle School for the Arts. She was Assistant Director of Parkway’s Pizzazz Dance Company and a member of the DANZA dance company at the University of Florida. Brook is a former competitor and counts Elaine Jekels, Denyse Brooks and Roni Mahler as influences. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Education.

CARA ROBERTS - Cara Roberts started dancing at age 3 at Pro Am Dance Studio in Ft. Lauderdale and went on to teach at Coral Springs Academy of Dance. Tap, her favorite subject, led her to Boca Dance Studio where she enjoys a wonderful group of adults on Thursday nights. During the day, Cara works in Organizational Development for Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation and recently completed her Master's Degree. Welcome back Cara!

BRITTANY ANUEZ - Brittany has had fifteen years of formal dance training and currently focuses on hip-hop (pop,lock, house, crump, vogue). She has danced the lead in the Broward Ballet Theatre’s presentation of “Faust” and “Tarzan” and has performed in the corps de ballet in several productions including “The Nutcracker”. She is a former member of Pablo Malco’s professional company “Pfusion”, and is currently performing with “Protégé” an all girl hip hop crew. During the past year Brittany has performed in many cultural events, charity events, music video shoots, and has toured with “Unique” and the Lil’ Wayne concert tour. We are very happy to welcome Brittany to Boca Dance Studio.

JENNA FORREST - We are excited to welcome Jenna to our staff! Bio to follow soon