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Meet Melissa
Melissa Jabaay is from Alabama and is happy to
be finding her home in Alaska with her wonderful husband and beautiful
children. She is beginning her 5th season teaching Jazz at
Alaska Dance Theatre and continues to work seasonally with Minnie Madden
Productions and Carnival Cruise Lines as an assistant choreographer.
She has danced in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and was in Neil
Goldberg’s Cirque Productions as well as at Busch Gardens Theme Park
where she also worked as the Dance Supervisor of Entertainment and was
responsible for auditions, casting, hiring, teaching dance classes,
choreographing shows, and teaching the twenty shows that were performed
within the park. She has judged numerous dance competitions in Anchorage
and in the Lower 48 including Headliners National Performing Arts
Competition and Top of the World Cheer and Dance. She is the current
University of Alaska Anchorage Gymnastics Team’s choreographer and dance
coach. She also works throughout the Anchorage community as a lighting
designer and stage manager. She has worked at the Alaska Center for the
Performing Arts for companies such as Alaska Dance Theatre, Momentum
Dance Collective and Anchorage Theatre for Youth.