Melissa Martin
Passionate about intuitive dancing, Mélissa has the rhythm in her blood and passion in her heart from an early age. Originally from Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, she started at Mainstreet Dancers Dance School and continued at Studio Zenith, where she did competitive dance in jazz, contemporary, lyrical, acrobatic dance and hip-hop. She was in a troupe for eight years, then she became à teacher there for 3 years. Self-taught, she created her own solos from the age of 12 to 18, where she made a solo career in her last year of competition. A recipient of several awards, she won a scholarship to Los Angeles in 2015, allowing her to live an intensive week of training at renowned dance studios, including the famous Millennium Dance Complex.
Her interest in theater and her drama classes have also allowed her to develop her choreographic sense for several plays, including La Belle et la Bête (2016), Évangéline and Gabriel (2016), L'Acadie des Terres et Forêts in celebration (2017) and Don Juan (2017), in which she also interpreted the role of Andalusian. While dancing and acting, she was also taking voice lessons and gymnastic training to be a triple threat.
She joined the Danse-Interprétation program (technical DEC in partnership with the Cégep de Sainte-Foy) of the École de danse de Québec, Canada in the fall of 2017.
Upon her arrival, she teaches at Les Cours public d'EDQ. In the summer of 2018, she participated as a professional dancer at the Loto-Québec Fireworks Competition. She is now pursuing her studies at L'EDQ, while continuing to teach at this same school as well as Studio Party Time in hip hop.
From the 9th-21st of april she will be part of a big project called « PUD » where she will be dancing professionally in Paris and Nantes for a choreographer named Yvann Alexandre.
