About ME-GU

A ballroom school shaped like a movement studio.

We teach the relationship between bodies, space and time.

Traditional ballroom can be visually formal, but the useful skill underneath it is remarkably practical: understanding where your weight is, how another person reads your movement and how timing changes the feeling of a shared step. ME-GU begins there. Rather than asking new dancers to reproduce a finished shape immediately, we teach the structure that makes the shape possible.

The school is intentionally adult-focused. Lessons are paced around learning rather than display, and our small-group formats are limited so instructors can correct details that would disappear in a large class. Private sessions offer even more room to work with individual proportions, confidence, musical background and specific social goals.

Visually, the studio follows the same idea. Warm ivory, stone and soft black replace stage-like colour; clear sightlines replace decorative clutter. The aim is not austerity for its own sake, but a room in which subtle movement is easier to notice.

Our teaching language

Three ideas return in every program.

They are simple enough to understand on day one and detailed enough to keep developing over years.

WeightKnow where you are before asking a partner to follow where you are going.
FrameCreate a readable connection without stiffness, force or decorative posing.
PhraseUse timing, breath and travel so steps belong to music rather than sitting on top of it.

Teaching team

Different backgrounds, one shared vocabulary.

Our instructors work across International and social ballroom traditions, with additional experience in movement coaching, wedding preparation and adult beginner education.

Ballroom instructor Claire Bisset in studio

Claire Bisset

Lead instructor · Standard & partnership mechanics

Ballroom instructor Julian Hart in studio

Julian Hart

Instructor · Social ballroom & musicality

Ballroom instructor Mara Deschamps in studio

Mara Deschamps

Instructor · Latin foundations & occasion coaching

Operating company

A local Halifax studio with a clear legal home.

ME-GU Movement House is operated by Les Sons De Notre Humanité Inc. from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Program administration, bookings and privacy requests are handled through the company contact details published on this site.

Company & contact details

Technique is useful when it gives you more choices, not more things to worry about.

ME-GU teaching principle