Jeanine Mason

Although Mason was born in Miami, Florida, she grew up in a dance-oriented family in Pinecrest, Florida. Mason began her dance training at the age of three in ballet and flamenco, and went on to study jazz, acrobatics, hip-hop, modern, and contemporary dance. However, Mason had to go through four different dance studios before she finally found one that worked for her. Mason later stated that she "...couldn't find a teacher to work with [her] because [she] was just that bad." Yet when she was nine years old, Mason found a mentor in Amanda Tae, the owner of Focal Point Dance Studios, who was impressed by the amount of "discipline and drive" Mason exhibited during the time she studied in Tae's studio. Meanwhile, Mason studied musical theatre in her high school, Ransom Everglades High School, and helped choreograph a school production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. In the Spring of 2010, Mason will attend University of California, Los Angeles, studying journalism, though Mason also intends to pursue both dance and acting, which are among her passions.