Never Enough Ballroom is very proud to have a great collection of professional hard working dance instructors.  They spend many hours of their own time in the studio working on improving their dancing so they can continue to offer you, our students, the highest quality of dance instruction.

They are all currently getting ready for DVIDA certification tests.  Some are already certified and are getting ready to test out at a higher level.  The certification process creates instructors that meet a higher standard.  A standard and quality that is also recognized by the National Dance Council of America.  All of us are dedicated to your dancing.  We want you to have the best instruction available.

Mikel Feilen has been a professional ballroom dance instructor, competitor and performer for 25 years. After a knee injury in 1976, Mikel decided to try ballroom as a form of therapy to repair his knee. 25 years later the knee is fine and he is still dancing ballroom. Mikel, trained in American and International ballroom, Latin, country, social and swing dance, is also trained in theater arts, ballet, jazz and modern dance. He also performed in the acrobatic comedy act - "Del Rose Trio" - in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. Mikel danced and taught on Regency cruise ships with his wife, Suzette. Along with his cruise ship duties, Mikel emceed cruise ship production shows and was an assistant cruise director. Mikel now co-owns Never Enough Ballroom School of Dance in Reno and competes with his students in national pro/am dancesport competitions.

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Suzette Feilen has been a professional ballroom dance competitor, instructor, and Las Vegas show performer since 1978.  Along with her ballroom training in both American and International style, she is also trained in ballet, jazz, tap and modern.  Having danced in Bally’s “Jubilee” and in “Crazy Girls” at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, other credits include performing with her husband Mikel for two years on Regency Cruise Line Ships.  She has also done much convention work, dance competitions, commercials, many different types of shows, and group choreography. In addition, Suzette is a certified fitness instructor through the IDEA organization. She has passed her level exams in ballroom through Fred Astaire Studios and also has her associate degree in international Latin through the Imperial Society.  Suzette has taught competitive ballroom, social, swing, country and Latin dance for Fred Astaire Dance Studios, Arthur Murray Dance Studios, a number of independently owned schools, Regency Cruise Lines, UNLV, Fallon Naval Air Base, TMCC, and Ballantines Studio in Reno, Nevada.  She has been teaching ballroom dance at UNR in Reno since 2000, and has been a featured choreographer in the UNR dance concerts.  Suzette  co-owns Never Enough Ballroom School of Dance with her husband and Patricia Ehlers.  She particularly enjoys formation team choreography and directs the 7 performance dance teams at N.E.B.

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Patricia Ehlers has been involved with the Movie, Television and Recording industry most of her life. Growing up in Hollywood with Parents who's business was involved in advertising for all the big studios, gave her a love of music and dance and even a part in a movie. She began her life as a dancer in January of 2002. She joined with her instructors, Mikel & Suzette Feilen, to open Never Enough Ballroom where she is the business manager for the studio.

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Irene Robles  Irene began dancing jazz and ballet at age 13 in her hometown of Marion, Kansas.  She started teaching ballroom at the age of 17 at Starlite Ballroom in Sunnyvale, Calif.  She passed her American Bronze exams in smooth and Latin thru Starlite Ballroom.  Having trained with Jeffrey Lynn, Ronnie Montez, Jenell Maranto, Stephan Krauel, and Julia Gorchakova, Irene quickly developed a love for salsa and has made that her specialty.  She has since trained with Michelle Castro, Ricardo Sanchez and Francisco Vasquez to further her knowledge in Los Angeles style salsa.  Currently, Irene teaches for Never Enough Ballroom and has passed her D.V.I.D.A. American Bronze exams with honors in smooth and Latin.  She has competed with her students in the pro-am events of the San Francisco Open and the Las Vegas Holiday classic.  Throughout the 5 years Irene has been teaching at Never Enough Ballroom, she has also moved into the area of staff management.

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Michael  & Patricia Schultz Having performed for many clubs and organizations throughout Minnesota, Las Vegas, and Reno, Nevada, Mike and Pat Schultz boast a wide and varied dance history.  They danced with the “Nevada State Troupers” tap dance team, the “Silver Star Strutters” country line and clogging team, and the “Backstage Review” dancers doing ballroom, country, variety and comedy.  They have done numerous commercials and cable TV work.  In addition, Pat also danced in Las Vegas with the “Encore Dancers”, a chorus line of ladies age 60 and older who made the Guinness World Book for the longest chorus line ever (225 ladies)!  Pat has also competed in various beauty pageants, and was the third runner up in the Senior Sweetheart of America pageant in Massachusetts in 1997.  Mike and Pat were  competitive dance roller skaters for many years, having competed in both team and solo categories.  Since 1990, they have qualified for the U.S. National Roller Skating Competition nine times.  Mike was the Men’s Regional Figure Skating champion for California in 2001.  Now Mike and Pat study ballroom dance at Never Enough Ballroom and are the Country Dance Consultants for the instructors at N.E.B.  Their many years of country line and couples dance teaching experience is put to good use at N.E.B.  They also compete at various nationally recognized N.D.C.A. competitions, and in 1997 were gold medalists in the ballroom dance category in the Senior Olympics. They dance on all the Never Enough Ballroom performance teams, as well as entertain for many local fundraisers, shows, and benefits in Reno.  They are very active in the senior dance community and perform and teach regularly within that capacity.  Their variety shows are a favorite throughout Reno with comedy numbers such as the “Coconut Sisters” (Mike is ravishing in his hula skirt), “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’”, “Elvis” and “Marilyn”, as well as many country, ballroom and soft-shoe dance routines.

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