Mary Ellen Bryan.

Mary Ellen’s movement experience began with the study of Classical ballet at the age of 10 with Mary Moe Adams followings the Royal Academy of Dance Technique. She completed her majors examinations by the age 16 and moved into various forms of dancing such as modern, jazz, flamenco and contemporary ballet. Her studies eventually lead into a professional dancing career with Ballet Jude and Ballet Magnificat.

Mary Ellen is fully certified as a Pilates instructor through Core Dynamics Pilates, Inc which is a comprehensive teacher training program. She studied with master teachers Michele Larsson and Virginia Nicholas following the Eve Gentry tradition.

She has been fortunate to study with many master teachers throughout the United States, Australia, France and South America in both dancing and Pilates who have all played their part in building Mary Ellen’s unique and comprehensible ways in teaching, performing and choreographing.

Mary Ellen lives with a passion for seeking out new and wonderful ways the body can move. She continually strives to find ways to discover more about the body’s capabilities through her own personal Pilates and dance practice. She is currently working on kinesiology, sports injury and sport psychology studies through Lindenwood University.

Mary Ellen is excited to currently be a part of Pages to Pirouettes keeping her passion alive with the opportunities to share her love of dancing with the next generation.

Morgan Cameron

Morgan has been dancing since she was six. A native of St. Louis, she received her dance training primarily under the tutelage of Nathalie LeVine at Metropolitan Ballet and Ballet Conservatory in St. Louis. She also trained at the Joffrey Ballet School, The National Ballet School of Canada, the Kirov Academy, and Harid Conservatory under such teachers as Alla Sizova and Victoria Schneider.

Morgan went on to dance professionally with Milwaukee Ballet and Atrek Dance Company, and was a founding member of Collective Motion Dance Company based in St. Louis. She currently performs and teaches around the St. Louis Area in addition to helping run her family’s piano tuning and restoration business and raising her daughter, Isabelle.

Mikhail Matveyev

Mikhail began his training in ballet and character dance at the age of ten. He studied under the direction of Alla Nikitina at the Bila Tserkva School of Dance, and he performed for two years with the Rovesnik Dance Company in Kiev, Ukraine. After arriving to the United States at the age of sixteen, Mikhail continued ballet training with Nathaline LeVine at the Ballet Conservatory in St. Louis. Mikhail graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where he studied ballet with Dame Sonia Arova and Thor Sutowski. Mikhail performed with the Alabama State Ballet for two seasons in The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

Mikhail began his professional career with Antoni Zalewski and Ludmila Dokoudovsky. Some of his repertoire with The Saint Louis Ballet includes The Nutcracker (Harlequin, Russian), Beauty and the Beast, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Bottom), Raymonda Pas de Dix, The Handel Series, and Il Distratto. Mikhail also worked with contemporary choreographers and performed in ballets such as Gen Horiuchi’s Dance ‘till You Drop, Pascal Benichou’s One Way Out (Pas de Deux), and Francis Patrelle’s Rhapsody in Blue (Young Gershwin).