Mari Lemmons brings a lifelong love of dance and over 20 years of teaching experience to the studio, with an extensive background in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, and hip-hop. Her journey started in competitive and performance dance groups that traveled nationally and internationally, which led her to minor in dance at Hope College, where she performed in numerous productions, danced with the professional company InSync Dance Theatre, and later taught Jazz there for a few semesters. She went on to spend nine years teaching at Discovery Dance of Fennville and the last six with Dance United, where her choreography has earned awards and recognition and her students have gone on to perform with college teams, earn scholarships, and become educators themselves.

Mari has taught first grade at Fennville Elementary for the last 20 years, training that shapes how she brings her love of childhood education directly into her approach with young dancers in the studio.