About Us

What began as the dream of a mother and a busy housewife has become an institution in the Zebulon Community for over sixty years. After the death of Mrs. Wade in 1960, Alma Doris Massey realized the need for dance to continue for the young people in this area. Her husband, Frank Massey, closed in their two car garage and in the fall of that year the journey began.

In 1967 Debby Massey Driver took the reins of Massey School of Dance, teaching in the same studio until her husband Eddie Driver, built a studio in the basement of their new home north of Zebulon. Later, Eddie built a larger studio with two teaching studios (now three studios). In 1989, Eddie built a second location in Wilson, where "Miss" Debby and several teachers taught for eleven years.

Now, with Inga Beck as assistant director, the school has six teachers, and office staff and many extremely talented volunteers who together ensure that the journey continues.

Our goal...our Mission Statement... is to love these children, to help them realize their self worth, to share our love and our knowledge of dance, to be a very small but positive part of what they become as adults... and to share the journey.

Meet Our teachers

Inga Beck - Assistant Director

Inga Beck is the Assistant Director of The Massey School of Dance. She is a native of Zebulon, North Carolina and has been dancing since the age of 5 studying tap, ballet, jazz, clogging, modern and contemporary. She also performed on a competitive level. She grew up in this studio and has been teaching dance for over 30 years. She had the privilege of competing in local competitions as well as in Atlanta, Florida and New York City. Inga also had the opportunity while at the Massey School of Dance to take classes at Broadway Dance Center, in New York City and perform in the half time shows of the Peach and Orange Bowls. She teaches pre-school classes, tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical and our Pee Wee and Senior performing groups and is also a certified Acrobatic Arts instructor.

Inga is a graduate of Meredith College, earning her Major in Dance, with K-12 Certification, student teaching in dance at Martin Middle School. While at Meredith, she was a member of the audition based, Meredith Dance Theatre, she had the opportunity to work with various guest artists, such as David Beadle and Kenneth Tosti, one of the former lead dancers for Paul Taylor Dance Company. She was chosen by Tosti as one of four lead dancers in his MDT piece and was invited to perform for the Dance and Dialogue of Women’s History Month at UNC-G.

Teaching and being a part of the Massey School of Dance family has brought many wonderful opportunities, master classes and workshops with Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Savion Glover, Mark Goodman, the Moscow Ballet, Frank Hatchett, Sheila Barker, Daryl Rhetter, Tammy Colucci and most recently Allison Holker, Alex Wong, Kent Boyd and many more. She had the opportunity to assist in rehearsals for the Moscow Ballet’s “Nutcracker” while they were in residence here at the studio and in the Russian Ballet’s “Nutcracker” .

Not only does the studio provide a place to dance and provide opportunities for furthering dancers dance education, most importantly, it is a place where life long friends are made, traditions are passed on and little dancers, are taught to become successful, polite and poised young people in this world. She is very proud to say she is so blessed to have a job that she loves and she is especially blessed to have her husband and three beautiful children by her side!

Jodi Livesay

Jodi has been teaching at Massey School of Dance since 2007. She began dancing when she was two at MSD. She is currently part of three generations of dancers here at MSD. Her mother studied under the supervision of the founding director, “Miss” Alma Doris Massey. Jodi’s daughter is currently a student at MSD. “Miss” Jodi, is experienced in ballet, lyrical, jazz, tap, clogging, and coaching competitive dance teams. She has a BK License and a degree in Early Intervention. She completes continuing education yearly for dance with trainings and workshops. Jodi teaches ages 3–18-year-old dancers with an emphasis on younger dancers. We are so lucky to have Jodi!

Jamie Zinn

Jamie started clogging at 5 years old when she lived in Arkansas and hasnt stopped since! After teaching alongside her mom at their family owned clogging studio, Clogging Dynamics, Jamie danced her way to Massey School of Dance in 1997. Jamie teaches our clogging classes, solos and competition teams. You will likely hear her big voice and silly laugh throughout the studio - Jamie brings energy and excitement to all of her classes and loves seeing her student's feet fly!

Sarah O'Neal

Sarah began dance at the age of two at MSD and graduated with 15 years of dance in 2015. While at MSD she was a part of the Competitive Troupes and Clogging Team as well as competing with solos that won awards such as "Most Entertaining," " AtmosFIERCE," and numerous judges choice awards. She has taken classes with teachers such as Tammy Colucci, Alex Wong, Eileen Juric, and many others. In addition, she attended Meredith College and minored in Dance Studies where she studied under Carol Finley, Eleanor Smith, Allyson Colwell-Waber. Miss Sarah specializes in lyrical and jazz, in addition to teaching turns, leaps, and conditioning, ballet and classes in our preschool program. Miss Sarah LOVES MSD and is thankful to be back doing what she loves with her dance family!

Caroline Proctor

Bio to come!

Brianna Doubleday