Melanie West
Belly Dancing
Melanie is a life-long dancer and performer; she found Middle Eastern dance while looking for a new hobby. She performed in the Hampton Roads area before the pandemic, and transitioned to online performances since.
Kianda Fiske
Studio Owner, Creative Director, Dance Instructor
Kianda Fiske is a dynamic and unique instructor, who’s love of dance has taken her all over the world to study and teach!
She has been dancing since the age of six. Regardless of where she’s traveled or lived, including Asia, Europe, and South America; she’s always been able to find her natural rhythm in various cultures’ music.
Leroy Windfield
Salsa On2 & Bachata
Leroy has been dancing Salsa for over ten years and teaching for more than seven. He is Hampton Roads’ first “home-grown” salsero.
Kim Price
Salsa On2 & Bachata
Kim joined the Mambo Room support team and started taking as many weekly dance classes as she could, feeding her thirst to learn more. Her love for the dance led to her being on several dance teams & traveling across...
Sydney Warren
Salsa On2
Sydney began Salsa dancing at the age of twenty two and later add to her dance skills Bachata and Kizomba. She's a member of the Women's Yemashun Salsa dance team as well as the Anova K-Pop team.
Jara Clark
MixxedFit
She has a strong love of fitness and a dedicated practice, and hopes to share that love and dedication with anyone who is willing to get on the floor. Her goal is to help individuals realize that fitness is more mental than it is physical and growth through fitness.
Quiana Erb
Bachata & Rueda
Quiana is a Virginia Beach native, who always dreamed of being a dancer, began her formal dance studies by fulfilling a physical education credit in university. She believes more than anything that dance should bring joy, fun, and connection to people’s lives and that is the philosophy that drives her classes.
Nadira Grubbs
Belly Dancing
Nadira has been performing and teaching bellydance for over a decade with exclusive Tribal Bellydance certification through the Fat Chance Bellydance Sister Studio Training program since 2008.
John Cummings
Kizomba & Semba
While Salsa was his first love, John discovered Kizomba by chance while taking an intro class at a Friday night social. Kizomba, and later Semba, quickly became his primary focus. John’s love of Kizomba and Semba radiates in each and every one of his classes.
Brad Setzer
West Coast Swing & Two Step
Brad is a fun and energetic dancer and teacher. He has a background in Ballroom, Country, and Swing dancing. He has traveled over the US competing in numerous dance competitions, and most recently spent several years teaching line dance, two-step, and swing locally.
Amy Strickland
Ballet
Amy began dancing at the age of three at the Gayle Pratt School of Dance where she studied ballet, tap and jazz and graduating after 14 years.
Lorenzo Riche
Ballroom & Wedding Couple Privates
Lorenzo has been dancing Latin Ballroom for fifteen years and has been instructing Ballroom and Latin Ballroom professionally for twelve years. Apart from being contracted to teach individual lessons in his spare time, he has now found a home at Norfolk’s very own Mambo Room!