Staff
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Heidi Rae Arnold
Studio Owner & Instructor
Heidi has been teaching dance for the past 16 years. She first started dancing at the age of 3 when her parents enrolled her in lessons and has been dancing ever since. She was a star on her school’s award-winning dance team. She began teaching ballroom dance at the age of 16 at a local studio and quickly became the lead advanced instructor. She has trained extensively across the country, including West Palm Beach, Orlando, and New York. Now, as the proud owner of Dancin’ Dance Studio, Heidi loves being able to pass on her passion and knowledge of dancing to others.
Heidi has performed in many charity events, including the highly-acclaimed Dancing for the Space Coast (formerly called Dancing With Brevard). In this event, she and her celebrity partners became grand champions in 2012, 2015-2017, co-champions in 2018, and champions in 2021-2022.
Primo Garcia
Instructor
Primo began dancing when he was 3-years-old. At age 10, he was already choreographing his own routines. Although he was initially fascinated with hip hop, his interests quickly expanded to encompass a wide variety of dances, including modern, jazz, and contemporary styles. By the time he was 24, he began a career in ballroom, working to master American Smooth and Rhythm and International Ballroom and Latin at both social and competitive levels.
In 2016, Primo returned to Florida after spending a year with the Dance With Me Dance Studio, working with some of the top dancers in the country. During his time there, he performed in the Broadway production, Sway, with several instructors and celebrities who appeared on Dancing With the Stars.
Primo has also taken part in many charity performances, partnering with local celebrities in Dancing for the Space Coast to become co-champions in 2018 and grand champions in 2019.
Brad Stein
Instructor
Brad’s love of dance began at an early age with professional training in ballet, jazz and ballroom. He enjoys a very celebrated career in dance having played numerous roles first as a Disney dancer, a soloist with the East Coast Dance Theatre, a Broadway star dancer in the New York Times critically-acclaimed hit Ballroom Fever, a featured dancer on PBS’s Championship Ballroom Dancing, and has competed and won every major dance competition in the United States and abroad. His favorite professional accomplishment thus far has been that of United States Champion, allowing him to represent the United States in every major dance competition worldwide, culminating in winning the world title in the very same year. Brad has also appeared on the hit TV show Dancing With the Stars and choreographed for the Fox hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance.
Brad is the previous owner of Dancin’ Dance Studio and loves living his life with purpose as he continues to share his joy of dance as a teacher, coach, friend, and pro/am partner to all of his students. He continues to travel and compete with his students in pro/am competitions worldwide.
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Geoff Sandland
Instructor
Originally from California but raised in London, Geoff has been dancing for over 50 years and teaching for more than 40. He started his journey with dance in his father’s ballroom studio in London when one of the teachers pulled him up and started teaching him, and he has been dancing ever since. Geoff has been trained by a number of professionals including Bill and Bobbie Irvine, Bobby Medeiros, and Pierre Dulane. Through Geoff’s dancing career, he has won Top Teacher awards at numerous pro/am competitions and made various TV news and stage appearances, both in England and in the U.S. A few of these occasions include performing at a Charlie Chaplin dedication in Leicester Square in London and dancing locally at the King Center in Melbourne. He has also taught at, supervised, and managed dance studios in London, Beverly Hills, and Kansas City, the last of which he also owned. He has also previously owned other studios in Melbourne and Satellite Beach.
Geoff is certified through Professional Gold skill levels of ballroom dancing and is himself an Arthur Murray and TC Dance examiner. He teaches Beginner through Gold levels in Smooth, Rhythm, Latin, and Swing dances, along with choreographing wedding dances and even coaching other teachers. He also participates regularly in ballroom dance charity events, such as “Dancing for the Space Coast” here in Brevard County.
A core part of Geoff’s love for dance comes from the freedom he found through connecting feelings with movements while sharing that with one’s partner. This was something he learned as a 14-year-old dance student, and now he enjoys helping others live out their own passions through dance. He also believes the best parts about being a teacher are all the amazing people he’s met and worked with and the experiences he’s had with them, with so much still to come!
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Ashley Melville
Instructor
Ashley began dancing at the age of 2 1/2, when her mother enrolled her in her first combo class! Throughout her childhood, she competed around the country and performed regularly in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, contemporary; Ashley eventually joined her high school dance team and went on to win nationals at the prestigious USA Dance Competition in Los Angeles, CA in 2004. Throughout early adulthood, Ashley continued training at the EDGE Performing Arts Center in Hollywood. She began dancing Ballroom in 2012, competing in Pro/Am competitions as a student, and then eventually leaving her corporate career in Finance to pursue her passion of dance full time.
Ashley owned Zenergy Dancesport, a ballroom studio located in Denver, Colorado, for 4 years with her business partner James Williard, where she also competed in Professional American Smooth. She moved to Melbourne, FL in 2022 to continue her dance journey, and is so excited to have found a new studio home to teach at! Ashley teaches all styles and levels of partner dancing, and loves helping welcome new dancers to the beautiful world of dance!