


There she has been performing with the crew in Boston and New York as well as performing in shows, competitions, and other gigs around the city.
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After DWB, Shaela joined Boston's own professional hip-hop company, Phunk Phenomenon Dance Complex. She choreographed and performed in a total of eight seasons. During her time in the city, she started to dance and choreograph for DanceWorks Boston. In her early adulthood, Shaela attended Suffolk University and graduated in 2017 with two degrees, one in Entrepreneurship and one in Marketing.

During her years at NRSB she intensively competed in regional competitions, as well as performed annually in the Nutcracker with the Albany Berkshire Ballet. She was trained in a variety of styles such as Ballet, Pointe, Tap, Modern, Jazz, Contemporary and Lyrical. This is where she began her dance training at the age of five, at North Reading School of Ballet. Shaela started her dance journey outside of Boston, from the North Shore of Massachusetts. She is honored to be joining the Dance Xhilaration family! She continues to train in all styles of dance at Zello Dance Studios and elsewhere, always seeking out opportunities to move her body in a way that it doesn’t want to anymore! Leslie is also a biology and special education teacher and the dance club advisor at Greater Lowell Technical High School. Leslie has a two hundred hour yoga certification and just completed Acrobatic Arts Certification Module 2. She has choreographed for Lynnfield High School’s musicals and has experience acting at the collegiate level. She was a certified public school dance educator in Arizona for seven years and owned her own studio for ten years (Dance DynamiX located in Malden, MA). There she was able to take classes from Ann Reinking. Leslie has been lucky enough to have attended Connecticut College for dance, been a member of the UMASS Dance Team and completed her AAFA, Dance, from Scottsdale Community College under the guidance of Angela Rosencranz. Her biggest accomplishments in dance include being a member of the BCDP ambassador program at forty-five, Contemporize program at forty-four, winning a scholarship from the Petruzello twins and being asked to perform a solo by a Lady Gaga backup dancer (even though she completely blanked on the choreography and left the room after!). Leslie Breen has been dancing for thirty-seven years. With a variety of offerings to choose from, we're sure you'll be happy with us here at Dance Xhilaration! Miss Meredith is very excited to start her own dance family here at Dance Xhilaration and is delighted that her dream has come true! Miss Meredith teaches Ballet, Pre-pointe, Pointe, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical, Hip Hop, Musical Theater and Acro at Dance Xhilaration. This is Meredith's seventeenth year of teaching. Meredith is happy to share her passion for the art of Dance, and looks forward to sharing her passion with her future students. She has received many high scores and special awards for her excellence in dance and choreography. Miss Meredith has taught dance at several dance studios in the Boston area. This allows her students to increase their strength and develop as dancers without injury to the body. Her philosophy is teaching proper technique to her students. She has performed with Dean Dance Company and Dean College Dance Team. Jenkins, Pilobolous and the well-known NYC Rockettes. She has studied and worked with masters such as Jill Silverman, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Wyatt Jackson, Lisa Pari, Josh Hilberman, Bob Thomas, Denise Jefferson, Jay T. During her four years at Dean, Meredith’s focus was on Pedagogy, Composition, The Vaganova Method and Horton Technique. In her early years she trained with Kathy Kozul at Mary Flynn Murphy Dance Studio. in Dance with a dual minor in Business and Psychology from Dean College where she graduated with highest honors.
