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Whether you are just starting out as an adult or have years of experience under your belt, Crossing Media Dance offers ballet and dance classes aligned with God's favor through Faith. If God gives you the desire, we can help it become a reality.
My acting Story
Melissa Dunn Brewer is an award-winning actress with lead and supporting roles across independent, faith-based, and narrative films, Wedding at Keestone, Amazing Grace, Unwanted Love, and A Love Letter to Heaven, for which she earned Best Supporting Actress at the Christian Online Film Festival. Her work was an official selection at the International Christian Film Festival (2023) and she continues to work in projects nationwide. Trained extensively in the Meisner technique, under the respected industry professional, Kirk B. Woller (The Chosen) she brings listening skills and acting under imaginary circumstances to a new level. She is also training under LA based coaches Trey and Ariel Fernandez (easternskytheatre.org.) She is Melissa brings versatility, discipline, and physical training-including classical ballet and martial arts-to her performances, along with strong accent work and professional on-set experience. She is currently the director for Crossing Media Ministries, a faith-based, nonprofit film company.
My dance Story
Melissa Dunn Brewer began her dance training at the age of six with Tupelo Academy of Dance Arts under the direction of Sharon Long and later with North MS Dance Center under the direction of Sarah Karrant. As well as being a member of the Tupelo Ballet Company, she studied summers on scholarship with Ballet Austin under the direction of
Stephen Mills, Ballet Mississippi under Jullian
Davis, and the Atlanta Ballet. She has taken master classes with David Howard, Tom Clower, and Anne Burton Avery.
Once graduating high school, Melissa attended Belhaven College on scholarship where she was a member of Ballet Magnificat’s pre-professional training division under the direction of George Lysenko. She was offered an apprenticeship position to dance professionally with Ballet Arkansas under the direction of Kurt Hathaway.
Melissa has over 20 years of experience teaching ballet, tap, and lyrical dance (ages 3-adult.) She has danced numerous roles, including Lilac Fairy with Ballet Dallas, Sugar Plum Fairy, Arabian princess, Dewdrop, and Snow Queen in the Nutcracker. Other full length ballets include Coppelia and Cinderella. She was Ballet mistress and board member for the Tupelo Ballet Co. as well as the Ballet Board President for the Civic Ballet Co.
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