Studio Bio
 

The Oxendine Dance Studio is owned and operated by Michelle Oxendine who has taught dance for over 20 years.  Miss Michelle is an alumna of Newark High School of Performing Arts (Arts High School) where she studied music and dance. She is also an alumna of Rutgers University where she studied dance and fine arts.

Deedee Mayland, the studio’s ballet instructor for the past 5 years, studied dance at Rutgers University, Princeton Ballet and has toured internationally with the Julia Ritter Performance Dance Group. Miss Deedee is currently a dance instructor at High Tech High School North Bergen NJ where she also coordinator of the after school dance program. 

Stephanie Fernandez, the studio’s tap and hip hop instructor for 4 years, is an alumna of Kean University where she choreographed dance productions for the Kean University dance team.