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Instructors - Never Enough Ballroom

 

Our Team

Never Enough Ballroom is very proud to have a great collection of professional hard working dance instructors.  They spend many hours of their own time in the studio working on improving their dancing so they can continue to offer you, our students, the highest quality of dance instruction.


They are all currently getting ready for DVIDA certification tests.  Some are already certified and are getting ready to test out at a higher level.  The certification process creates instructors that meet a higher standard.  A standard and quality that is also recognized by the National Dance Council of America.  All of us are dedicated to your dancing.  We want you to have the best instruction available.

 

Mikel Feilen - Owner / Studio Manager/Instructor 

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Suzette Feilen - Owner/Performance Team Director/Instructor

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Pat Ehlers - Owner / Business Manager

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Irene  Robles - Assistant Manager / Instructor read more
Michael & Patricia Schultz - Country Dance Consultants read more
Jeffrey Munson - Instructor read more
Jeffrey Lynn - Instructor read more
Tim & Carolyn Renner - Instructors read more
Michelle Michelsen - Instructor read more
Morgan Heller - Instructor read more
Ray Bouas - Instructor read more
   

Mikel Feilen has been a professional ballroom dance instructor, competitor and performer for 25 years. After a knee injury in 1976, Mikel decided to try ballroom as a form of therapy to repair his knee. 25 years later the knee is fine and he is still dancing ballroom. Mikel, trained in American and International ballroom, Latin, country, social and swing dance, is also trained in theater arts, ballet, jazz and modern dance. He also performed in the acrobatic comedy act - "Del Rose Trio" - in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. Mikel danced and taught on Regency cruise ships with his wife, Suzette. Along with his cruise ship duties, Mikel emceed cruise ship production shows and was an assistant cruise director. Mikel now co-owns Never Enough Ballroom School of Dance in Reno and competes with his students in national pro/am dancesport competitions.
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Suzette Feilen has been a professional ballroom dance competitor, instructor, and Las Vegas show performer since 1978.  Along with her ballroom training in both American and International style, she is also trained in ballet, jazz, tap and modern.  Having danced in Bally’s “Jubilee” and in “Crazy Girls” at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, other credits include performing with her husband Mikel for two years on Regency Cruise Line Ships.  She has also done much convention work, dance competitions, commercials, many different types of shows, and group choreography. In addition, Suzette is a certified fitness instructor through the IDEA organization. She has passed her level exams in ballroom through Fred Astaire Studios and also has her associate degree in international Latin through the Imperial Society.  Suzette has taught competitive ballroom, social, swing, country and Latin dance for Fred Astaire Dance Studios, Arthur Murray Dance Studios, a number of independently owned schools, Regency Cruise Lines, UNLV, Fallon Naval Air Base, TMCC, and Ballantines Studio in Reno, Nevada.  She has been teaching ballroom dance at UNR in Reno since 2000, and has been a featured choreographer in the UNR dance concerts.  Suzette  co-owns Never Enough Ballroom School of Dance with her husband and Patricia Ehlers.  She particularly enjoys formation team choreography and directs the 7 performance dance teams at N.E.B.
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Patricia Ehlers has been involved with the Movie, Television and Recording industry most of her life. Growing up in Hollywood with Parents who's business was involved in advertising for all the big studios, gave her a love of music and dance and even a part in a movie. She began her life as a dancer in January of 2002. She joined with her instructors, Mikel & Suzette Feilen, to open Never Enough Ballroom where she is the business manager for the studio.
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Irene Robles  Irene began dancing jazz and ballet at age 13 in her hometown of Marion, Kansas.  She started teaching ballroom at the age of 17 at Starlite Ballroom in Sunnyvale, Calif.  She passed her American Bronze exams in smooth and Latin thru Starlite Ballroom.  Having trained with Jeffrey Lynn, Ronnie Montez, Jenell Maranto, Stephan Krauel, and Julia Gorchakova, Irene quickly developed a love for salsa and has made that her specialty.  She has since trained with Michelle Castro, Ricardo Sanchez and Francisco Vasquez to further her knowledge in Los Angeles style salsa.  Currently, Irene teaches for Never Enough Ballroom and has passed her D.V.I.D.A. American Bronze exams with honors in smooth and Latin.  She has competed with her students in the pro-am events of the San Francisco Open and the Las Vegas Holiday classic.  Throughout the 5 years Irene has been teaching at Never Enough Ballroom, she has also moved into the area of staff management.
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Michael  & Patricia Schultz Having performed for many clubs and organizations throughout Minnesota, Las Vegas, and Reno, Nevada, Mike and Pat Schultz boast a wide and varied dance history.  They danced with the “Nevada State Troupers” tap dance team, the “Silver Star Strutters” country line and clogging team, and the “Backstage Review” dancers doing ballroom, country, variety and comedy.  They have done numerous commercials and cable TV work.  In addition, Pat also danced in Las Vegas with the “Encore Dancers”, a chorus line of ladies age 60 and older who made the Guinness World Book for the longest chorus line ever (225 ladies)!  Pat has also competed in various beauty pageants, and was the third runner up in the Senior Sweetheart of America pageant in Massachusetts in 1997.  Mike and Pat were  competitive dance roller skaters for many years, having competed in both team and solo categories.  Since 1990, they have qualified for the U.S. National Roller Skating Competition nine times.  Mike was the Men’s Regional Figure Skating champion for California in 2001.  Now Mike and Pat study ballroom dance at Never Enough Ballroom and are the Country Dance Consultants for the instructors at N.E.B.  Their many years of country line and couples dance teaching experience is put to good use at N.E.B.  They also compete at various nationally recognized N.D.C.A. competitions, and in 1997 were gold medalists in the ballroom dance category in the Senior Olympics. They dance on all the Never Enough Ballroom performance teams, as well as entertain for many local fundraisers, shows, and benefits in Reno.  They are very active in the senior dance community and perform and teach regularly within that capacity.  Their variety shows are a favorite throughout Reno with comedy numbers such as the “Coconut Sisters” (Mike is ravishing in his hula skirt), “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’”, “Elvis” and “Marilyn”, as well as many country, ballroom and soft-shoe dance routines.
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Jeffrey Munson  has been dancing for over 29 years.  For over 20 of those years, Jeffrey has focused on Ballroom and Latin (mostly Ballroom).  Jeffrey has danced competitively and has been a Dance Sport Finalist in several Championships.  He has performed shows for audiences from Los Angeles to Sacramento.  Jeffrey teaches and studies American Smooth and International Standard Ballroom styles.  He studies with some of the top Ballroom dance coaches in the United States and Europe, receiving weekly training to better his dancing and teaching techniques.  The payoff of all his hard work is seeing his students excel and grow as dancers and people.  Jeffrey teaches all levels, from beginning to advanced. 

 

The past several years Jeffrey has turned to a new style of dance, West Coast Swing!  Although he danced it for several years in the Ballroom world, he discovered a whole new street style out there and fell in love with it.  Jeffrey has been lucky enough to learn from some of the best in the U.S. and now wants to pass along that dance knowledge and excitement to you!  He currently competes on the west coast swing dance circuit and is quickly rising to the top.

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Jeffrey Lynn is a dance champion in many dance disciplines and has been teaching dance for over 30 years. Starting out as a figure skater when she was young, she set out to discover a way to make dancing feel as if she was gliding on ice. Studying from world champion dancers she learned how the Natural Laws of Motion work within the body to make dancing as second nature as breathing. She has trained many champion dancers with her unique methods.

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Tim & Carolyn have twenty-five years of combined teaching and competitive experience.  Their collective experience includes Ballroom, Country, and Swing. Tim and Carolyn run a professional studio out of their home but, also provide instruction for Truckee Meadows Community College along with the University of Nevada - Reno and several dance events throughout the year.  Tim is also one of the founding members of The Biggest Little Swing Dance Club which provides opportunities to aspiring dancers.  Tim & Carolyn’s dance instruction focuses on solid dance fundamentals, slowly introducing you to styling and technique in combination with showmanship.  Group & private lessons are available as well as instructional tapes in VHS or DVD format.  For additional information please call (775) 750-6990. 

 

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MICHELLE MICHELSEN  Michelle started dancing at 5 years old with Anne Robinson’s Dance Workshop in Gardnerville, NV, where she studied ballet and tap.  She later continued her training at The Dance School of Smith Valley under the direction of Betsy Huniwell-Elliot.  Through high school Michelle choreographed jazz, ballet, tap and ethnic dances pieces for herself and other dancers.  At that time, she entered a self-choreographed lyrical solo dance routine in the western U. S. “I Love Dance” competition – earning high marks.  Michelle attended UNR with a minor in dance, and worked with various guest companies, such as Hubbard Street 2, Ballet Hispanico, John Lehre,  Kristen Avansino, and danced with Gina Hernandez..  Having also studied tap with the Reno Dance Company, Michelle still performs in numerous UNR dance productions. During that time, she also coached and choreographed for Megan Madrigan – a second runner-up contestant for the Miss Nevada Pageant 2007. Additional training includes Dante 7, Dominique, and Lula Washington.  Michelle teaches jazz, ballet, tap and hip hop for Tamara Holmes at Positive Energy Dance and Acrobatic Studio in Carson City, participates in the Nevada Day Parade with her students, and leads a youth dance camp in the summer.  She has also taught for Sparks High School, and served as a judge for the Let’s Dance Carson City Dance Competition at the Brewery Arts Center.  Currently, Michelle studies and teaches Ballroom and Latin dance at N.E.B., and has a special love for Viennese Waltz, Bolero, and Tango.  

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Morgan Heller began training in both jazz and ballet in the Reno / Tahoe area. He went on to dance in New York and danced with many ballet companies all over the country including: San Jose Ballet, Savannah Ballet, Berkshire Ballet, Nevada Ballet among others. He returned to Reno and danced for many years with Maggie Banks and the Nevada Festival Ballet while also dancing in a variety of casino and cabaret shows.
Along the way he also taught ballroom for Fred Astaire as well as the Dance Institute in Las Vegas. About fifteen years ago he discovered the Argentine Tango while living in Las Vegas and immediately became captivated by this beautiful dance. Fortunately, Las Vegas has a large Argentine population, and many of the top touring tango masters have homes there, so he was able to get a level of training that would have been difficult to find anywhere outside of Argentina. During that time, he had the opportunity to perform and compete in many of the casinos and clubs in Las Vegas.
Most recently he was training the staff of Fred Astaire in Phoenix in the Argentine Tango as well as teaching independently, but decided that he would rather live and dance in the Reno/Tahoe area.

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Ray Bouas  Ray was initially trained as a musician, and plays saxophone and percussion – both latin drums and drum sets. He was also trained as a vocalist and sang in Honor and All State Choirs, ranking seventh in the state out of 5000 baritones in 2003. He has since been teaching at Never Enough Ballroom, and particularly enjoys the latin and rhythm dances, his favorites being cha cha, salsa, rumba, and samba. He has also performed on the N.E.B. country and swing teams. Ray is currently studying American smooth, rhythm and latin bronze level dance and is preparing to take his D.I.V.I.D.A. exams for professional certification.


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