Melissa Braswell 
Director and Owner of the Village Dance Studios, Melissa also founded and directs the Village Performing Company.  She began her dance career at the Governor’s Magnet School for the Arts and received her BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University.  She choreographed and danced with Steve’s House Dance Collective for six years and has been teaching dance for 11 years. 

Suzanne McClung 
Founder of the Children’s Creative Workshop at the Village Shopping Center, Suzanne is the co-director of the Village Dance Studios and the Village Performing Company.  She received her BA in Dance from Randolph Macon Women’s College.  Upon graduation she studied dance in New York and London.  Suzanne later returned to Richmond and studied at the Richmond Ballet and Virginia Commonwealth University.  She has been teaching dance for 15 years.

 Lisa Conner
Director and Instructor of the Artist’s Studio at the Village Dance Studios.  Lisa received her BFA in Art Education from Virginia Commonwealth University.  She worked as an art teacher with the Richmond Public Schools for 6 years where she assisted in developing the RPS Art Curriculum.  She currently teaches in Henrico County.  She is the IB Art Teacher at Moody Middle School. Her personal work has been shown throughout the United States. 

Rob Petres
Rob Petres holds a BA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University.  He has taught workshops and company classes for Ground Zero Dance Company and Steve’ House Dance Collective, and has taught dance workshops/master classes in Budapest, Hungary and Istanbul, Turkey. In 1992 he co-founded the Richmond-based Steve's House Dance Collective with Ray Schwartz, where he worked as a choreographer, dancer, technical director, and lighting designer. Rob currently choreographs and performs with Ground Zero Dance Company, of which he is co-founder and co-artistic director. 

Instructors
 As demand warrants, the Directors of the Village Dance Studios often provide additional instruction through the use of part-time and guest instructors from the field.  The studio prides itself on the professionalism of its instruction and will only select highly qualified, well-trained,  experienced instructors for this purpose.