Staff

The Fever Performing Arts was founded in 2008 by Connie Kelly, Jennifer Morris,
and Megan Spivey in downtown Tallapoosa, Ga. The three found their love for children
and community quite similar. Through much prayer and obedience the Lord has
opened door after door in order for FPA to join not only the Haralson County Community,
but the World. The three wish to offer opportunity, encouragement,
and proper education for young and old performers alike!
As of August 1, 2009 The Fever Performing Arts is excited and pleased to share with you their brand new location in Carrollton, Ga! After 10 months of being opened The Fever is moving from a 2,200 Square Foot Facility to a 6,400 Square Foot Facility with over 100 kids!

Welcome to our Fever Family!

Megan Spivey Creative Director	Megan has been dancing competitively for 15 years. Megan is trained is ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, modern, hip hop, acrobatic, and musical theatre. She cheered with Universal Cheerleading Association in 2005. After graduation she attended Jacksonville State University, where she became a member of the JSU Hard Corps basketball dance team, The Go-Go’s. Since Megan began teaching two years ago, her dancers have won many scholarships, title awards, high point awards, and even were named feature shooting stars for Atlanta’s WNBA team, The Dream. Megan is currently the Director of Deeper Dance ministries, and a member of Georgia’s AFL and NFL Cheerleading Teams. Megan is constantly continuing her dance education by attending conventions and workshops. Megan grew up in this area, and has always craved a program like she is now offering; “It’s time to prepare children for the future. I want to encourage kids to grow their talents and find their purpose. It’s time for children to look back on their training, and know that they are prepared for their next steps.”
Sarah Spivey Dance Instructor	Graduate from Haralson County High School class of 2009, has been dancing for 15 years. She first started when she was three with tap and ballet. As she got older she started expressing herself in more areas of dance such as lyrical, jazz, clogging, etc. Besides dancing, she also expresses herself through music, singing, and drawing. She (is/will be) attending Universtiy of West Georgia (in January 2010) for a major in Biology and a minor in dance. Sarah has been apart of the Fever family since before they were established in August of 2008. Her senior dance year was last year, and in the second semester of dance she started to help teach the baby groups (1-4 year olds) and help with petite level warm up/stretch class. She also got to help with the little bitties competition group dance last year. "These kids are her life", says Sarah and is proud to be working with all these babies and believes they like her and does extremely well with them. She will be working with the two and younger groups and the three to four year old groups this year and is honored to be.
Michael Hebert Dance Instructor	Michael has been a professional dancer for 18 years and a dance teacher for 11, having taught Master Classes all over Georgia and the Southeast. He is trained in jazz, ballet, lyrical, acrobatics and hiphop. Michael's first professional job came at 16 when he was a featured dancer in the 1996 Olympic games opening ceremonies. He has won numerous dance titles such as Mr. Star Power, Mr. Showbiz and Mr. Star Systems. He spent 8 years as a Miss Georgia dancer for the Miss America pageant system and has done dance industrials for Nike and Reebok. Michael has also trained in Los Angeles at the Edge and Millenium. Also an accomplished singer, his group has opened for such acts like T.I., Bone Crusher, Ashanti, Rueben Studdard and the Isley Brothers as well as singing the national anthem at numerous professional sports venues including a Philadelphia Eagles football game to a crowd of 30,000. He spent the last nine years at the Southern Dance Connection, where his students have gone on to win numerous national titles and awards. Michael is excited to bring that same training to The Fever.
Kayla Gassaway Dance Instructor	Kayla has been dancing for almost twelve years. Her background includes gymnastics, majorettes, lyrical, ballet, tap and jazz. She graduated from the Rockford Master’s Commission in Rockford, IL with a degree in creative arts and a pastoral certification. One of her passions is to share the love of God to people through creative elements. She absolutely adores young children and loves to help them learn and discover new things. She and her husband are the youth pastors at Community Church in Bowdon, and she is also a part-time personal assistant. She is starting her first year on staff at the Fever Performing Arts and is very excited for the amazing opportunity to grow and learn.
Terry Bagwell Dance Instructor	Terry Bagwell is a ballet dancer, classically trained under Oleg Tupine and Tatiana Rosseau at the Virginia Ballet Company. He performed with the Virginia Ballet from 1996-2006. He has also performed for and trained with The Red Chair Academy in Los Angeles, The King George Ballet in Virginia, and The Ballet Studio in Sacramento, CA. In addition, he spent two years studying under Tak Kwan Chu at Pofahl Studios in Gainesville, FL from 1994-1996, as well as the summers of 1997 and 1998.
Eryn Poulson Dance Instructor	Eryn has been onstage since the tender age of three, and has been working semi-professionally in the theatre world since the age of 17. She has played a huge variety of roles, including "Rizzo" in 'Grease', "Anita" in 'West Side Story', and "Mina Harker" in "Dracula". She was also a cast member with the Michigan Shakespeare Festival 2001, and has recently premiered her skills here in Georgia, where she took place in The Legacy Theatre's ensemble of "The Wizard of Oz". She studied at Spring Arbor University, majoring in theatre and minoring in vocal music performance. Eryn joined the dance world late, but has since studied classical ballet and pointe for 6 years. Eryn is also a pageant coach, and currently executive director of the Miss Haralson County Scholarship Pageant. She is the co-founded of the Haralson County Alliance for the Arts, and is happily married to her husband, Specialist Nicholas Poulson. Eryn is studying to be a nurse at West Georgia Technical College.
Erika Taylor Dance Instructor	Erika has been a professional dancer and teacher for over 15 years. She began her early dance training with the Sacramento Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and with Marjorie Mussman in New York. She has had several summer scholarships with the Milwaukee Ballet and graduated early from high school to dance with them. Erika has also danced with Arizona Dance Theatre and spent 10 years as the principal dancer with the Charleston Ballet Theatre. She has been teaching ballet, pointe, jazz, and tap to 3 year-olds thru adult and has won several awards for her choreography in ballet. Erika has a 6 year-old little boy, and will graduate in May with an AA in education. She is excited to be a part of the Fever Performing Arts staff!
Jamie Horban Dance Instructor	Jamie Horban is excited to join Fever as a teacher this year after moving from Chicago, Il. She trained in Chicago for many years in chechetti ballet, jazz, tap, modern, tango, flamenco, hip-hop, Musical Theater, acrobatics, African dance, salsa and Latin. She has trained at Evanston School of Ballet, Ruth Page Dance Center, Lou Conte Dance Studio, Ellis du Boulet, Chicago Ballet, Gus Giordano, Joel Hall Dance Center. She graduated from Northwestern University with a bs in dance and film. She has danced with numerous dance companies including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dance Chicago, White Oak Dance Project, and Latin American Dance Company. She moved to Atlanta two years ago and teaches at Atlanta Ballet, Dance 411 Studios, Bally Total Fitness, Suwanee Academy of the Arts, Barefoot in Motion Dance Academy as well as others. She has also taught at Interlochen Arts Academy, Korean Dance Company, Northlight Theater, and Ballet Legere just to name a few. She has choreographed for many dance companies, theaters and production companies around the United States including Atlanta Ballet Pre-Pros, Theater on Main, Interlochen Arts, Dance Chicago, The Chicago Cultural Center, CK Dance Company, Northlight Theater, Metropolis Theater, Bailiwick Theater, Ballet Legere, Northwestern University, and the Actor's Gymnasium. Jamie owns a production company that produces festivals each year in Chicago and Atlanta. The festivals and Jamie have been featured in Creative Loafing, Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reader, The Dailiy Herald, Pioneer Press, as well as on WGN morning news and WTTW Chicago.
Luke Rogers Music Technician	Luke has many jobs here at The Fever. You won't see him around often because he works from school, at the University of Georgia. Luke cuts, mixes, and customizes all of the musical selections for Fever performers!
Amy Spivey Administrative Assistant	Amy has been a secretary at Deeper Life Christian Center for 13 years. She has been around the dance world even longer being Megan and Sarah Spivey's mother. She also has been teaching children's church for 12 years. At The Fever she combines both talents involving business matters and her love of children. She will always greet you and your family with a smile and take care of any matters you need tended too.
Erin Davis Webmaster & Advertising	Erin began advertising in 2004, when she started working at Visual Odyssey Inc. Visual Odyssey makes Patient Education materials (electronic wall charts, computer software, web graphics, pamphlets, etc) for Chiropractic offices. She started making in-house office forms and worked her way towards magazine ads, postcards, catalogs, banners, and eventually web design. Erin’s employer, Bruce Goldsmith, is also an artist in creating lampwork glass art and unique hand carved wooden sculptures. Erin was made webmaster in September 2007 to sale his artwork online at N8art.com. Erin is a graduate of the University of West Georgia with a degree in Early Childhood Education. Erin is excited to share her love of children with the Fever, and to help in a variety of advertising projects and being sole webmaster for the Fever Performing Arts.