<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/our-faculty/melaina-brill.aspx" dsn="faculty"><email>mbrill@chapman.edu</email><image-overwrite><img src="/our-faculty/files/small-photos/adjunct-faculty/brill-melaina.jpg" alt="Melaina Brill"/></image-overwrite><name-overwrite/><rank-overwrite/><departments-overwrite/><expertise-overwrite/><office-hours-overwrite/><office-location-overwrite>Sandi Simon Center for Dance</office-location-overwrite><scholarly-works-links-overwrite/><degrees-overwrite/><bio-overwrite>Melaina Brill is a professional competitive ballroom dancer, coach, choreographer and judge. Her titles include World Finalist in open professional Smooth, U.S. Champion in rising star Smooth, and she has been a professional finalist in nearly every major dancesport competition in the U.S. She teaches all styles of ballroom dance and has an extensive classical ballet background, adding additional depth and perspective to her ballroom knowledge. Melaina holds a BS from Brigham Young University and an MPA from the University of the District of Columbia.</bio-overwrite><scholarly-works-overwrite/><cv/><media-contact>pr@chapman.edu</media-contact><lecture-requests>mbrill@chapman.edu</lecture-requests><phone/><website/></item>