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Mary Grady Norkus
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Mary Grady Norkus
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Mary grew up dancing in Raleigh, NC under the direction of Betty Emmanuel at the Emmanuel-Kovach School of Dance. She graduated from the University of NC at Greensboro with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Journalism. In 1981 after a year of dancing in New York, Mary returned to NC and began teaching at Dance Space with her sister Noel Grady Brown. She performed with Carolina Dancers, New Performing Dance Company, and Easy Moving Dance Company. Mary and Melody joined forces to open Dancentre in 1991. Mary teaches creative movement, ballet and contemporary dance. In addition to her work at Dancentre, Mary teaches movement and physical education at Durham Academy Middle School. She is active in choreographing for their drama and chorus productions. Mary was recently elected “Community Dance Educator” for 2004-2005. She plans to keep dancing, teaching and choreographing until someone asks her to stop.
 mary@dancentre.net
Melody Eggen
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Melody Eggen
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Melody began her dance training with Jane Whitsett at the age of 12 in Joplin, Missouri as an attempt to civilize and make a lady of her. She graduated from he University of Missouri at Columbia with a BGS in Dance, Music, Art, and Drama for the Exceptional Child. She planned to work in the juvenile detention system, but budget cuts left her with only one option, graduate school. Melody attended graduate school in dance at the University of NC at Greensboro. She taught at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill until joining Mary to open Dancentre where she teaches creative movement, jazz, and contemporary, Melody is the artistic director of Studio A Dancers a children's performing group. She has performed with Missouri Dancers, the Chapel Hill Ballet Company, Carolina Dancers, Whirlwind Jazz Dancers, and Studio A Dancers. Melody designs and produces costumes and art to wear for idres. She continues her dance training and exploration with yearly jaunts to the Bates Dance Festival where she keeps in touch with what it feels like to be a student.
melody@dancentre.net
Sarah White
Sarah grew up in Chapel Hill and discovered her love of dance at the age of 4 at Dancentre. Even though ballet has been her initial spark of interest in dance, Sarah finds passion in all styles of dance and movement. Sarah graduated from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 2005 with a B.A. in English and minor in Creative Writing. At Earlham, Sarah devoted her free time to Earlham’s student-run performance dance program, Dance Alloy, as a dancer, choreographer, and co-leader of the program. Through Dance Alloy, she explored all types of dance including modern, swing, Latin, and hip-hop, and shared her fortes: ballet and belly dance. She also taught belly dance lessons at a local dance studio in Richmond. Sarah worked for the American Dance Festival in administrative internship positions for the past two summers, and currently works at Rashkis Elementary School’s after-school program as a group leader and facilitator of dance club. Sarah is delighted to be back at Dancentre where she teaches creative movement explorations and beginning ballet.
sarah@dancentre.net
Marsha Ann Thomas
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Marsha Thomas
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Marsha Ann Thomas is a graduate from East Carolina University with a BFA in Dance Performance. In addition she has received a Professional Degree in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre London and is certified in Pilates mat course from the Pilates Certification Centre in Raleigh. She currently works as a pre-school and movement teacher at the Jewish Community Pre-School of Wake County. Marsha is also in her 3rd year as a dancer for Queen City Jazz Company in Charlotte.
marsha@dancentre.net
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