 Heidi Melchiona
Master Instructor
Heidi is a nationally recognized dance instructor and choreographer. Her students have gone on to work professionally around the world and she herself has been hired to choreograph and stage major professional productions and dance videos. Heidi is one of the original “Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders”, later becoming a choreographer for the Dolphins football organization. She is the founder of the Florida International University cheerleaders, and was director/choreographer of the cheerleading squad of the Spring Football League team, “The Tropics”. For the past 24 years she and her husband Joe directed the largest dance school in South Florida, the Heidi and Joe Melchiona’s Dance Center. Heidi was also busy choreographing and performing for the “American Dance Theatre Of Miami”, and other regional theaters. For five consecutive years she served as the choreographer for the Miss Florida USA pageant. She is a lifetime member of Dance Educators Of America, a “certifying” national organization of dance teachers. Most recently Heidi was elected to the Board of Directors of DEA and travels the country organizing and running both regional and national conventions. Miss Heidi, with her husband Joe joined staff of the Joan Harris Center this year. After living in Miami, Fl for the past 36 years, she wanted to slow down the pace and raise her children in a gentler environment. Miss Heidi has initiated a new program at the Joan Harris Center conducting “Fitness” classes for older teens and adults.
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