Melanie Panton has been the proud principal of Prestige Dance Academy, building its reputation from the small beginnings in 1994 to the highly successful and thriving Academy that Prestige is today. Melanie has devoted her entire career to teaching and mentoring students and supporting them to reach their complete artistic potential and she continues to ensure that every student is encouraged to strive for their personal best and are offered every opportunity to achieve this.

After Melanie graduated from 3 years of intensive full-time dance training, Melanie continued to keep her passion for professional development alive with further study through the Royal Academy of Dance to achieve recognition as an Internationally Qualified RAD Teacher. Through registration with the Royal Academy of Dance, she continues to further her passion and commitment on a continuous basis to enriching her knowledge of dance with the ongoing changes and evolvement to the syllabuses.

Melanie trains the students of Prestige Dance Academy for annual RAD Ballet examinations in graded, higher graded and all vocational graded examinations every year. Over Melanie’s career, she has stepped into active roles, as Vice Chair Person followed by Chair Person for the Royal Academy of Dance South Australian Regional Advisory Panel. Due to the great growth and demands of Prestige Dance Academy, Melanie stepped out of these roles to focus completely on Prestige.

At Prestige, Melanie has choreographed and prepared Dance Teams who have performed at many corporate events and she also prepares teams annually for participation in the Credit Union Christmas Pageant. Melanie’s extensive and heightened experience makes her much more than just a Dance Teacher but a Dance Educator, a Mentor and a Visionary for the Education of Dance.