Dance Educator
Photo by Tanya Constantine
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In Person Classes!
Wednesday evenings: 7:30pm Anna Cheselka Dance Center. Classes: $60/4 class series Drop in: $17 Zoom: $10.00. Vaccines are required, masks are optional. No exceptions. A testimonial below! Want to read the rest of her post? Click here!
My professional life as a ballet dancer began as an apprentice with the Joffrey Ballet under the mentor-ship of Trinette Singleton after studying on scholarship with both Alonzo King and Richard Gibson in San Francisco. I went on to dance as a principal dancer with numerous ballet and modern companies before joining the National Tour of Phantom of the Opera. Since then, I have worked regionally on numerous shows, have added film, TV, and commercial work to my resume and am establishing myself as a choreographer, director, dance educator and writer. Along the way I earned a BA from the University of California, Irvine in Dance. I love to teach and live for dance. I always have several theater and film projects in the works and believe fervently in employing the arts as a force for social good. I incorporate all of this life experience into energetic and technique based classes emphasizing clean unadorned port de bras, a strong core, clear alignment and quick movement. Classes are aerobically and technically challenging but retain a lightness of spirit and a great deal of love. As of October 2021, I am the Commercial Dance Program Coordinator/Student Mentor at Hussian College/In Studio. Please contact me to get on my mailing list to keep current on available classes. I also post on both Instagram and Facebook. I am also available for private lessons and coaching. I am currently continuing my own studies in the MFA-IA program at Goddard College, earning an interdisciplinary arts MFA with a Performance Creation Concentration.
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During the Covid-19 Spring Semester Shelter in place order, our students have all been sent home. For their midterm, I asked my ballet classes to learn a variation and gave them various prompts, illustrated in the video. I edited the most original and fully realized into a little sizzle reel. I hope you enjoy these young artists!
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