Instructors

Jakki Taylor

Owner and Instructor

Jakki began dancing at 3 years old and began her professional dance and teaching career at 16, after leading her high school dance team at Ladue. At 17, Jakki was hired as the audition choreographer to find dancers for Nelly and the St. Lunatics, and they liked her so much they invited to her to be a back up dancer on the 52 city international Nellyville tour.

She returned to St. Louis to attend Webster University where she earned a degree in Business Management.

Jakki has won numerous competition awards as an instructor and choreographer. She has always believed in maintaining a good balance between hard work and having fun. In 2017, with the help of family and friends, Jakki realized her lifetime dream of opening her own studio.

Monica Meyr

Instructor

Miss Monica is a professional dancer who has been a company member with Modern American Dance Company for eight seasons. She graduated from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati as Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, and is a graduate of the Jordan College Academy of Dance at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

She performed as a guest artist with professional companies such as Cincinnati Ballet, Kentucky Ballet Theater and Gregory Hancock Dance Theater. She attended summer programs at the American Ballet Theater, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater under Judith Jamison as a Fellowship Student, Complexions Contemporary Ballet with Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, River North Chicago Dance Company under Frank Chaves, and Spectrum Dance Theater under Donald Byrd.