Faculty

Terrill is a YPAD and CPR certified dance educator and choreographer. He has set works on MET dance, Wanderlust Dance Project, St. Johns School, Contemporary Ballet Dallas and has also traveled the coasts for competitive studios, dance teams and youth companies. He served as a choreographer for the educational outreach program for MET dance and has worked training other pre-professional dancers in Houston. Additionally, has had the opportunity to choreograph for the world-famous Kilgore Rangerette Dance Team, consult and work with the Texas Tech Pom Squad, Sam Houston State University Dance Team, the West Virginia University Dance Team and TJC Apache Belles.
He is the former Company Director for the nationally ranked competitive company at Elite Dance Academy in League City, TX for nine seasons and led them to many regional and national wins. Lastly, Terrill travels the U.S. as a faculty member with Dupree Dance Convention and is represented by GO 2 TALENT AGENCY.

Credits include:
Industrials: (Mary Kay, Wrigleys, GE, Redken, Party Slate, Cisco and Tarbell Realty).
Live Stage & Commercials: TEDx, Carvel Ice Cream, John Robert Powers, Lopez Tonight, Disneyland’s “Snow White”, Professional Dancers Society Awards, Nokia Theater-Los Angeles, Dance Spirit Magazine, LA Fashion Week, AIDS Benefit with Jamie Lee Curtis, Carnival, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Miller Outdoor Theater, and Harrah’s.
She is a former member of Gregg Russell’s, “Tapsounds Underground” and Joelle Martinec’s, “SoleVita Dance Company”. And, she is a current member of the Dallas Dance Company, “Rhythmic Souls Tap Company”, in addition to directing their youth ensemble.
Meghan has been blessed with the opportunity to perform and teach master classes all over the world in Canada, Singapore, Costa Rica, England, Switzerland, Germany, Guatemala, and she has educated all across the United States. She also worked multiple times with the non-profit arts organization, Genesis:Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her work has been seen on television in Guatemala for a nationally broadcast industrial for Gallo Beer, and the seasonal show, Navidad Fantastica.
Meghan additionally had the chance to tour China and work with choreographer JoAnn Jansen for the 2010 World Expo based in Shanghai. Shortly afterward, she assisted JoJo Diggs in Tokyo, Japan, training J-POP stars. She has also assisted Liz Imperio, Tyce Diorio, Doug Caldwell, Gregg Russell, and Mandy Moore, among others.
Meghan has been on faculty for the EDGE in Hollywood, LA Dance Force, Little Rock Tap Fest, Syncopate, Tap Into the Network, and also taught & adjudicated for DMA, Hall of Fame Dance Challenge, Showstoppers, Idyllwild School of Music and Arts, Starlight, VIP Dance, and Dance Olympus. Meghan is super excited to continue her journey with Dupree this season!

Rao is a current faculty member of The Studio School in LA and had the privilege of creating her own curriculum as being the first to teach her course – “World Cultural dance ” in her specialty of the Indian Arts. Her choreography can be seen all over the US in the dance competition circuit. Some master class credits include: Joffery Ballet, Millennium Dance Complex, International Dance Academy, Dance and Dialogue, Dance Connection, Harvard Westlake as well as public and private schools all over the US. She has judged many national Bollywood competitions, including Just Dance (India’s SYTYCD), Jhoomti Sham, Bollywood America and Nachale Deewane. She created artistic works in Guam, Israel, India, Mauritius, S. Africa, Los Angeles and across the US.
Along with teaching and choreographing, Kavita directs and owns the dance entertainment company Karmagraphy, a full service entertainment and production company based in Los Angeles and New York. As the Artistic Director of Karmagraphy clients include: IFFA (International Fashion Film Awards), International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), IFFLA (Indian Film Festival LA), Disney/Pixar, Dreamworks, Kaiser Permanente, Intuit, Gita Anjali Diamonds, GO Campaign, Pratham, INDUS, TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), South Asian Bar Association, Arpen Global Charities, and SDM Cancer Relief Fund, Chopra Foundation, Red Roof Inn, Morongo Casino and LA Fashion Week.



After her time at Spectrum, she moved to Los Angeles, where her commercial dance career began. Performing on a variety of awards shows, like the Oscars, Emmy’s, MTV VMA’s, television shows, like Euphoria, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Masked Singer, feature films and music videos. The work she has done, has been for a diverse group of choreographers such as Kenny Ortega, Travis Payne, Fatima Robinson, Marguerite Derricks, Hi-Hat, Mandy Moore, Kathryn Burns, Keith Young, and Dominique Kelley, to name a few. She is also a current member of the Daniel Ezralow Dance Company and the Heidi Duckler Dance Company. She is grateful to work in many genres of dance, but ballet will always have her heart.


Her professionalism and positive attitude has kept her working with top choreographers such as Tina Landon, Jason Myhre, Reina Hidalgo, Asiel Hardison, Brian Friedman, Tabitha and Napoleon, Kyle Hanagami and Tamara Levinson. This has given her many amazing opportunities to assist working choreographers, such as Kevin and Marcel Wilson, Beau Fournier, Gigi Torres and Derrell Bullock, on numerous live shows and music videos.
She is also a proud member for many years of distinguished companies across LA including Essence Ladies, a female hip hop company run by Gigi Torres, and Mischief Makers under the direction of Beau Fournier. She is also the Assistant Director to Trouble Makers and AMMP, both youth teams under the Maker Empire umbrella.
Kris’s passion for the arts can be seen in many forms. When she graduated high school she immediately moved out to LA and attended Loyola Marymount University, earning her BA in Animationas well as a BFA in Dance. When she isn’t dancing she is painting, drawing, editing videos, and continuously finding new mediums to expand her art unto. Yet dance has always been her first love.
Kris started creating and choreographing at a young age. From choreographing duets with her sister at the age of 12 to choreographing her sisters competition solos amongst other group numbers, she had a knack for it. Nowadays Kris is traveling and teaching all around the world including master classes in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Beijing. She frequently travels back to her hometown of Chicago to teach master classes and choreograph for studios, but when she isn’t traveling she is teaching regularly in LA and can be found subbing at the infamous Debbie Reynolds Legacy Studio. Kris, incredibly passionate about the education of dancers and is incredibly honored and excited to being joining Dupree’s family as guest faculty for this upcoming competition season!
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Owners

Our Sincerest Thanks…
As parents of two dancers, it is our goal to host the kind of conventions and competitions that we can be proud of on all levels. We truly believe that competition brings dancers to the height of their performance and helps them learn to admire, strive and excel amidst dancers from their own studios and all over the country. We pride ourselves in the quality of events that we run, the great awards that we are able to give to our dancers and the phenomenal faculty we are lucky to showcase. But the true hallmark of Dupree lies in our infinite respect for the art of dance, the devoted teachers and the amazing parents who all play a critical part in showcasing talented dancers that breathe amazing life into our stage! Whether it’s a young ballerina braving her first solo or a seasoned group of competition dancers defending their title, we share an unconditional love and unrestrained joy in elevating these amazing moments in each dancer’s journey. We appreciate your support and guarantee you will leave our events with wonderful memories and a refreshed outlook on the artistry and industry of dance.
Zack and Kari Anderson
Owners, Dupree Dance