A World-Renowned Dream Team Inspires Budding Artists At DeKalb's McClendon Performing Arts Institute

STONE MOUNTAIN, GA, October 15, 2010 (Press-News.org) DeKalb County's nationally-renowned McClendon Performing Arts Institute has been adding several globally-acclaimed names to their guest instructors list. Most recently, Marc Spaulding, a dancer with the "Dreamgirls" stage play and Dougie Styles, a dancer with Debbie Allen's stage play "Twist", stopped by the McClendon Performing Arts Institute's studio in Stone Mountain to share, inspire and instruct the more than100 budding dance, drama and music artists who train there.

Styles is an Atlanta native and has traveled all over the world performing with the Spice Girls and with other concert tours. Spaulding is from Washington, D.C. and has studied with several famous dance schools including Joffrey, Alvin Ailey, and Philadanco.

In addition to Styles and Spaulding, Albert Evans, also an Atlanta native and the first and only black American ballet master with the New York City Ballet, has agreed to partner with McClendon by providing instruction and support with his name and time. He has also joined the McClendon Performing Arts Institute's Board of Directors.

"We are overjoyed and honored at the caliber of talent that is joining our mission here at McClendon," said Denise McClendon, artistic director of the McClendon Performing Arts Institute. "It's a testament to the discipline and dedication of our students and the instruction they have already received that Evans, Spaulding and Styles have agreed to associate themselves with us to make us even more spectacular in talent and vision."

About the McClendon School of Dance
Operating for more than 30 years, and incorporated in 1980, the McClendon Performing Arts Institute uses dance as a fountainhead in a holistically designed curriculum that incorporates dance, music and drama with motivational instruction, and emphasizes academic excellence as well as moral and ethical values.

In addition to its dance specialties for children and adults - classical ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and praise and worship - as well as music and drama lesions, McClendon provides academic tutoring with proven teaching techniques that has helped the Institute mold and develop kids and young adults, while simultaneously building character. The McClendon techniques have played a pivotal role in gaining its students acceptance into the nation's top dance programs such as Alvin Ailey's Dance Theatre at Fordham University and North Carolina School of the Arts, to name just a couple. For more information about the McClendon Performing Arts Institute, visit http://www.mcclendonarts.com or on Facebook. Call 404/292-4920 for class information.