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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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