Our Team

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Anna Dauphin began her dancing career at age four, training at the Dance Centre at Vista Grove as a member of their performance company for ten years. Anna continued her dance education at Georgia College, and ultimately graduated from Georgia State University with a degree in Arts Administration. Throughout her college years, she also worked as a dance instructor, choreographer, and assistant director for her home studio and many schools in the metro Atlanta area. Experienced in a wide-range of styles, Anna has had the privilege of working with hundreds of students on competition solos, dance auditions, private technique lessons, and weekly classes since 2012.

In 2020, Anna established Dauphin Dance Center in Tucker, GA, fulfilling a lifelong dream to open her own dance studio. It is her mission to provide a nurturing space for young students to foster their love of dance, build confidence, and grow connections. Teaching is Anna’s greatest passion, and she hopes to spread the positive influence that dance has had in her life to others. 

Fiona Shepherd began dancing in Atlanta, Georgia at The Dance Centre at Vista Grove where she performed with the Dance Troupe and started teaching classes. She deepened her dance education through highschool at Dekalb School of the Arts. Fiona attended college at Denison University as an English Literature major and a Dance minor, where she graduated in May of 2023. She intensively studied modern, jazz, ballet, and dance history and participated in numerous Department performances. Outside of classes she continued her teaching career serving as a Teaching Assistant for Contemporary/Modern courses at Denison, and teaching pre-ballet and tap classes at Granville Dance Academy. She also was awarded a position of Dance Fellow where she helped grow Denison’s dance community by starting organizing dance events both on campus and within the Ohio area. Fiona is excited to bring her love of dance to help build a positive and inspiring community for all DDC dancers. 

Graham Shelor (He/Him) is an Atlanta based movement artist, improviser, and dance educator. From a very young age, beginning in Tampa, his dance training has formally developed through contemporary, vogue femme, modern, ballet, jazz, and hip-hop forms/techniques. Graham holds a B.A in dance from Middlebury College where he had the privilege of training under Christal Brown, Laurel Jenkins, Lida Winfield, Kari Borni, Meshi Chavez, and Michael Abbatiello. Graham has choreographed works which been shown at Fall for Fall Dance Festival (GA), Middlebury College, the New England Conference of American College Dance Association (VT), and NewGrounds Dance Festival (FL). He was a recipient of the Alexander Twilight 1823 Diversity and Community Leadership Award and the Mahalingaiah Family Dance Prize, both awarded by Middlebury College, for his research and performance work on movement repression and liberatory dance pedagogy. He has been featured as a dancer in works created by Tori Lawrence, Maia Sauer, Dahyun Kin, Atarius Armstrong, Yoshito Sakuraba, and Courtney McClendon. Currently, Graham is a company member of ALA Dance and Monica Hogan Danceworks. He is also a member of the Kiki House of Bodega, competing at underground kiki balls in Atlanta and beyond in the beginners performance (vogue femme) category. Graham has shared his love for dance through teaching a wide variety of ages and abilities in studios and schools in Tampa, Middlebury, and Atlanta.