Lindsay Burgess is the owner/director of Legacy Dance Studio. She has been dancing since the age of two and she competed for 8 years. Lindsay has experience in genres including ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, musical theatre, and hip hop. Growing up, Lindsay took private gym lessons where she learned how to tumble. At age thirteen, she attended the Joffrey Ballet Summer Intensive and was invited to train year round at their school in New York. In the summer of 2017, she attended the Commercial Dance Intensive for two weeks in North Carolina. Lindsay has had a love for theatre since the age of four. She has been a part of several productions including Annie, Shrek, Mary Poppins, High School Musical, Frozen and many more! She grew up taking voice lessons, and during the 2019-2020 season she was on the Youth Actors’ Company Board at Theatre Macon. For several years, Lindsay worked for Mercer University where she was a standardized patient for their medical students. Lindsay is an alum of the AMTC program, where she performed in front of hundreds of agents and received many callbacks. She has been in multiple short films including Ken Fienberg’s “Bully, No Bully” and “Stephanie’s Story.” As soon as Lindsay graduated high school, she began teaching and choreographing for different studios in Georgia including Kyle Kahn Studios Dance Excellence in Newnan, Georgia. Her choreography has won many overall awards as well Judges’ Choice Awards. During the 2023-2024 school year, Lindsay taught kindergarten at Veritas Classical Schools. During the summer of 2024 going into the fall of 2025, Lindsay was enrolled in and completed the 200 hour Entrepreneurship: Start-Up and Business Owner Management course at CGTC. Lindsay has loved her first year of owning Legacy Dance Studio and cannot wait to see what the summer and season 25-26 holds!

Alicia grew up dancing in middle GA starting at the age of 5, and was a competitive dancer for 6yrs. She holds a BS in Psychology and a minor in Dance from Georgia College & State University. While studying at GCSU, Alicia had the opportunity to teach/ choreograph in the GC Community Dance Program for ages 4-22, teach in the Bibb County School System, choreograph for the GC Theatre Department Musicals and Dance Minor concerts. She also held the roles of Community Service Chair and President for the Dance Honorary Society, Chi Tau Epsilon. Alicia attended the ACDA South Eastern Conference, representing GCSU by performing in both informal concerts (2022) and formal adjudications (2023). Once Alicia started teaching dance in college, she never stopped. Her favorite genres to teach are lyrical, jazz, and pointe. Alicia's choreography has won overall awards as well as Judges' Choice Awards. Alicia has spent two seasons with Burlap Sakk Dance Company as a Pro Company member based out of McDonough, GA. She also had the opportunity to perform in Airianna Tauanuu's first full length tap and contemporary show "Heartstrings." In addition to teaching and performing, Alicia enjoys reading and binge watching any and all Disney movies!

Megan Dupree received training in ballet K through 12th grade at the former Dance Arts Studio previously located in Macon, Georgia. She participated in the Middle Georgia Youth Ballet program from the time she was 12 to the time she was 18. One of Megan’s favorite traditions growing up was dancing in the Nutcracker of Middle Georgia. She performed in the Nutcracker for 11 consecutive years where she received the privilege of executing many roles in the beloved nutcracker story.

When Megan is not teaching dance you can find her hanging out with, and taking care of her eight children: Coleman, Westin, Sadie, Adeline, Lydia, Gatlin, Della, and Elora! Megan has many jobs including homeschooling all of her children. She enjoys going on trips and spending quality time with her family.

Something unique about Megan is that she is the oldest of eight siblings! She has always had a heart for children and she is excited to continue teaching this year at Legacy Dance Studio!