Artistic Team

Ms. Kregel is the owner of Metamorphosis Dance Academy and Artistic Director of Metamorphosis Dance. She began her training in Victoria, Texas with Debbe Busby and continued there as a member of Victoria Ballet Theatre from 1984 to 1993. She also studied with the Boston Ballet and Joffrey, San Antonio. She holds a B.A. in Dance Pedagogy from Butler University graduating with honors in 1997. Her career continued following graduation with the Alabama Ballet. Her career highlights include roles in The Nutcracker, Les Sylphides, Petrouchka, La Viviandière, Swan Lake, Coppélia, La Bayadère, Dracula, George Balanchine’s Serenade, Giselle, and Johan Renvall’s Between the Lines. She also appeared as a guest with the Indianapolis Opera in Die Fledermaus and on an international tour to Taipei City, Taiwan with the Butler Ballet. She has taught for The Jordan Academy at Butler University and for Exclusively Ballet in Birmingham before returning to Texas where she taught for Tapestry, Ballet Austin, and The Dance Studio. In 2004, she opened Metamorphosis Dance Academy and has been directing and dancing with Metamorphosis Dance since its merger with Austin Dance Ensemble in 2003. Under her direction, the company has performed Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, and Wonderland as well as debuted many original works of both emerging and seasoned choreographers.

Melissa Glouchkova has been teaching ballet since 1986. Her teaching experience includes Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Ballet Academy, Texas Ballet Concerto, Fusion Dance, Premiere Dance Center, Tapestry Dance Company and Academy where she was a company member for 10 years, Westwood High School’s Fine Arts Academy, Chula Vista Fine Arts Academy in Corpus Christi, TX, Rodnichok Vorkuta, Russia (guest teacher) and Metamorphosis Dance Academy which she considers home. Originally from Corpus Christi, Texas, Melissa began her classical training under Nancy Sulik, Artistic Director of Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, and attended summer intensives at Ballet West, Houston Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza Classica, Mexico and the Joffrey School of Ballet, NY as well as received many scholarships to prominent schools such as Boston Ballet, The National Ballet School, Canada and Academie de Danse Princesse Grace, Monaco. In 1991, Melissa was one of five dancers chosen to participate in the Kirov Ballet’s “Glasnost Buddies”, a program which allowed her to take classes with the Kirov Company. Her professional dance career includes wonderful roles in productions such as The Nutcracker, Raymonda Pas de Dix, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Coppelia, Beauty and the Beast, The Red Shoes, Stayin’ Alive, Sign of the Times, and Swinging Then and Now. In addition to teaching ballet, Melissa is a certified pilates instructor and owner of Center Pointe Pilates in Round Rock. She was a Master Pilates trainer at Castle Hill Fitness for 16 years, holds a BA in Interior Design, is certified in the Cecchetti Method of ballet, has a secondary education certification in Dance.

Veronica started dancing when she was five years old. After moving to Austin, Texas from Caracas, Venezuela with her family, she studied ballet at Austin School of Classical Ballet academy and continued to expand her dance technique at Westwood High School where she also gained drill team dance experience. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a B.F.A. in Dance with a Certification in Dance Education through the UTeach Dance Program. She has performed choreography by Alvin Rangel, Shen Jun, Charles Anderson, and Andrea Beckham. She has musical theater experience with dancing in UT’s production musical of “Little Women.” Aside from her college experience, she has attended and trained at summer intensive programs such as Joffrey Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Ballet West. She has also worked with the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive program in Austin. Veronica has competed in the Youth American Grand Prix, and upon graduation, performed the Nutcracker roles of Arabian, Snowflakes, Waltz of the Flowers, and Marzipan for the Allegro Ballet of Houston Academy and the former Southwest Ballet Academy. As an educator, she is presently the dance director at Grisham Middle School – a world IB school where she continues to expand her dance curriculum. Furthermore, she teaches advanced ballet classes at Shirley McPhail School of Dance, as well as pre ballet classes at her former dance studio, Austin School of Classical Ballet. She has performed with Ventana Ballet Company and The Dance Project and became a Resident Artist at Metamorphosis Dance in 2022.

Danielle began cultivating a love for dance as early as 3 years old. Over the years at Inland Pacific Ballet, Danielle was afforded many opportunities to perform in their ballet productions including the Nutcracker, Giselle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coppelia, and many others. Her summer intensive studies include Inland Pacific Ballet, The School of American Ballet in New York, San Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, and Ballet Austin. After attending a summer at Ballet Austin in 2013, she was invited to stay as a trainee during the 2013-14 season, where she was able to perform with Ballet Austin II and Ballet Austin. Danielle has been exploring the joy of performing and choreographing as a Resident Artist with Metamorphosis Dance since 2016.

Kyle Haschke was born and raised in Victoria, TX. Kyle began his dance training at 14 years old at Busby Dancenter and joined Victoria Ballet Theatre soon after. Through VBT Kyle has had the pleasure of collaborating with teachers and choreographers such as Thom Clower, LeeWei Chao, Nao Kusuzaki, Joshua Peugh, Ilya Kozadayev, Nathalie Marrable, and many others. Kyle has attended and performed at Regional Dance America three times, as well as the Ballet Austin summer intensive twice. Kyle has also had the opportunity to be a guest artist at such places as Ballet Ensemble of Texas, San Antonio School for the Performing Arts, and continues to guest with VBT since graduating. Kyle joined Metamorphosis Dance in 2019 as a Resident Artist.

Katrina Kutsch, a native of Austin, Texas, began her dance training at the age of three under the direction of Lucretia Lomax Alvarez at The Dance Studio. There she studied Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Lyrical and was blessed to receive training from Svetlana Krylova, Brenna Kuhn, and Amanda Booth-Neidhardt. In 2004 she expanded her training to include Ballet and Jazz at the newly established Metamorphosis Dance Academy, under the direction of Melanie Sistrunk Kregel. In 2006 she received the Senior Best All Around Scholarship at Texas Association of Teachers of Dance (TATD), and in 2008 she received the TATD Merit Scholarship to continue her dance education. Katrina graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Methodist University in 2012 with a BFA in Dance Performance and a Minor in Psychology. While at SMU she performed a wide variety of works, including George Balanchine’s Serenade, Robert Battle’s Battlefield, Danny Buraczeski’s Pithecanthropus Erectus, Martha Graham’s Panorama, Adam Houghland’s Five Preludes, and Jessica Lang’s Prayers to name a few. In 2013 and 2014 she attended the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer Intensive and is very thankful for the life-changing experience. In 2012 she returned to her hometown and became a Resident Artist with Metamorphosis Dance. While with Metamorphosis Dance, she has performed roles such as Snow White, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Mad Hatter highlighting her talents in contemporary, ballet, and tap. She is incredibly grateful to all the teachers she has had throughout the years and hopes to share her experience, knowledge, and love of dance with the next generation of artists.