Born and raised in Palm Beach, Florida, Mishele trained with Joanna Kneeland and Marie Hale (Artistic Director of Ballet Florida), learning The Method, a training program for ballet dancers that incorporates principles of physics, psychology, and kinesiology, as well as standard ballet pedagogy. Mishele was on Harkness and (Alvin) Ailey scholarship, toured with Academy Royale, Disney, Park Avenue Repertory, Frank Holder Dance Company, Dance Touring Theatre, and Oregon Dance. She earned her BFA in Dance/Theatre at East Carolina University and her MFA in Dance at Florida State University. She has been dance faculty at East Carolina University, State University of New York at Geneseo and at Brockport, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and Western Oregon University, teaching ballet, modern dance, dance history, survey of dance forms, teaching methods, and repertory. Mishele has performed and choreographed for ballet and modern dance companies, university dance concerts, opera, and musical theatre, and is interested in the blend or pull between different dance forms. With a good eye for seeing what is needed for movement efficiency, and a passion for communicating this to students, Mishele delved further into study of the body, training and then working as a Licensed Massage Therapist and an Advanced Certified Pilates Trainer (Institute for the Pilates Method), maintaining a Pilates/Massage studio for 10 years. She continues to integrate science and art in her private practice, teaching and choreography. Her ballet classes are classically formed, expressively enthusiastic, and designed to nurture the student dancer in developing his/her own movement voice.