A World-Renowned Dream Team Inspires Budding Artists At DeKalb's McClendon Performing Arts Institute
McClendon Performing Arts Institute gains support from several world-reknown dancers, including ballet master Albert Evans, formerly of the New York City Ballet, and Dougie Styles and Marc Spaulding of hip-hop dance fame.

STONE MOUNTAIN, GA, October 15, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 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."

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