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| Alan Scofield | Anna Gottreich | Annie
Rosenthal Parr | Alison DeOliviera| Becca Rozell | Daisy Stoloff | Eric Fenn | Efren Buzzo | Eileen McArthy |Florence Sinay | Heather McKenzie | Jacquie Leigh | Jennifer Maecker | Jessie Feller | Joan Lazarus | Kerstin Stuart| Lisa Saunders| Mary
Sherman | Micaya | Rana Satori | Shana Walt | Stacey Printz | Teya Chavez-Krotky| Tika Morgan |
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Alan Scofield |
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Formerly with the
American Dance Machine, Les Ballet Jazz du Montreal, the National Dance Institute,
San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Moving Co., Alan has been teaching
in the Bay Area for thirty years. He is the founding director of Young Imaginations,
Marin's premier multi-cultural arts education agency.
Classes: Jazz
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Anna Gottreich |
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Anna has over 15 years experience as
a professional performer and teacher of Brazilian Dance. She was a lead dancer
in Sambado Coracao performing company and holds a Masters in Latin American
studies from UC Berkeley.
Classes: Afro-Brazilian |
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Annie Rosenthal Parr |
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Annie founded RoCo Dance and Fitness in 1993. She received her B.F.A. in dance from N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of the Della Davison Dance Company and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Annie is a choreographer and performs regularly in the Bay Area. She is an adjunct professor of dance at UC Berkeley and Sonoma State and teaches in festivals and abroad. Annie's teaching method keeps dance accessible to all levels, making her one of the Bay Area's most popular dance and fitness instructors.
Classes: Modern
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Alison De Oliviera |
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Alison De Oliveira, co-founder of Pack The House Productions, is from L.A.
She is a highly sought after choreographer and dance teacher among studios,
Universities, and industry professionals. Alison was an internationally
ranked gymnast, then coach and judge. She trained in ballet, modern, jazz,
and hip-hop and has appeared in music videos, independent films, and
industrials.
Classes: Hip Hop | Jazz |
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Becca Rozell |
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Becca Rozell graduated with honors in dance from Skidmore College. Since college she has lived in Boston and NYC where she has at taught at many studios including The Boston Conservatory and Peridance. She has worked with Nicola Hawkins, Alison Gonzolez, Stomp, Andrew Janetti, Vanessa Paige, VL Danceworks, Deborah Abel and Weber Dance. Becca's choreography has been presented in Brooklyn, NYC, Saratoga Springs & Boston.
Classes: | Contemporary | Ballet |
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Daisy Stoloff |
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Daisy Stoloff is the Artistic Director of RoCo's Production "Alice." She trained as a dancer, teacher and choreographer at "EPSE Danse" one of France's top professional dance schools. She was the resident choreographer for the Conservatory of Heraklion, Crete, where she created many award-winning pieces. While living in San Francisco, Daisy performed with Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble and Annie R. Parr She taught throughout the Bay Area and directed RoCo's Youth Dance Co. BodyLanguage from 2006-2008 Currently Daisy lives abroad and guest teaches at RoCo.
Classes: Modern Jazz | Modern |
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Eileen Mcarthy |
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Eileen holds a Master's degree in Couseling Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy from CIIS.
She is also trained in massage therapy and Reiki energy work and has a background in Health Science and Education. She is a certified Group Fitness Instructor
through AFAA and is passionate about integrating her experience working as a clinician in the field(s) of psychotherapy with the mind/body practice of IntenSati..
Classes: Intensati |
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Efren Buzzo |
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Efren was born in central Mexico where he grew up dancing the cultural folkloric dances of his heritage. Efren received attention for his lead performance at some of the Mexican holidays like Cinco de Mayo and Fiestas Patrias.
In 1995 Efren moved to Northern California where he became certified in both fitness and spin instruction, but it is with Zumba that he found a natural outlet for his love of traditional Latin dance.
Classes: Zumba |
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Eric Fenn |
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Eric is an internationally known choreographer and performer who has been teaching for over 12 years. He was the founding artistic director of Culture Shock and now co-directs the San Francisco dance group Loose Change. In addition to hip hop, Eric has had 8 years of martial arts and 4 years of training as a jazz dancer.
Classes: Hip Hop | Urban Contemporary |
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Florence Sinay |
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Florence Sinay, is the prior owner, instructor and choreographer at Danceworks Studio, Los Angeles. A native of New York, Ms Sinay danced with Joffrey, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Le Ballet de Paris and Imperial Japanese Dancers.
Classes: Ballet |
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Heather McKenzie |
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Heather has always had a passion for fitness, athletics and movement. In her youth she was a competitive gymnast and studied jazz and ballet. Heather began teaching group exercise classes in 1998 and since has been the group exercise
director for the Gorilla Sports chain in S.F. and most recently retired from the Group Exercise Director position at Bay Club Marin. Heather is an avid athlete and teaches kickboxing,
sole synthesis, strength training, bootcamp and cycling...and rounds out her regime practicing dance (modern, jazz, hip hop, Latin) cycling, mountain biking and trail running.
Classes: Ultimate Kickbox | Sole Synthesis |
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Jacquie Leigh |
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Jackie has studied ballet, modern, tap, jazz and hip hop. She has worked with nonprofit organizations, Youth in Arts and Vector Theater Company and has taught hip hop dance for San Francisco Ballet, Marin Horizon school, San Geronimo Cultural Center, Synergy school, White Hill school, Elan Fitness, and Rhythm and Motion.
Classes: Hip Hop | Step | Cardio Hip Hop |
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Jennifer Maecker |
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Jennifer Maecker graduated highest honors with a BFA in dance from the
University of Florida and has been teaching, choreographing and
performing for over ten years. She has worked with: Moving Ethos,
Fuzion Dance Artists, Gerri Houlihan, Capacitor and Printz Dance
Project. Jennifer was a recipient of the Dance Educator's Fellowship
to Bates Dance Festival and received an Emerging Artist Award for her
choreography with Fuzion. After 3 years of teaching and
choreographing for Booker High School's VPA progam (Sarasota, FL),
Jennifer is thrilled to be back teaching modern and managing the
studio.
Classes: Modern |
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Jena McRae |
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Joe Gray |
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Joe Gray has been teaching, choreographing, and performing for 10 years. His biggest influence is the legendary Jabbawockie Gary Kendall. Joe has performed all over the US, China, and South Korea. He is the founder of the professional hip hop company Shadow Optix. Joe focuses on the core elements of hip hop including: breaking, popping, locking, tutting, and more. When he is not dancing, he is producing music, videos, and graphics.
Classes: Hip Hop |
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Jennifer Meek |
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Joan Lazarus |
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Joan has served as Executive Director of Oakland Ballet, General Manager of the Cowell Theater and is Executive Director of Summerfest/dance. She has taught at the University of Oregon, Mills College, San Francisco Ballet, Dance Circle of Boston, The Princeton Ballet, and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.
Classes: Ballet | Modern |
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Lisa Saunders |
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Lisa Saunders is a veteran Bay Area performer and teaching artist whose career includes 7 years as principle performer with both the African Music and Dance Ensemble and Batucaje! AfroBrasilian Dance Company. She is educated in diverse forms of world dance and holds a Master degree in ethnomusicology from Jesus' Name University. Currently, she serves as executive director of Ethnic Arts Institute in Sausalito.
Classes: West African |
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Kerstin Stewart |
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New to the Bay area, Kerstin Stuart currently works as a choreographer, dancer and instructor. She holds a BA in Dance from UC Santa Barbara and has studied with Joe Goode. Kerstin has performed with Cid Pearlman, Stephanie Nugent, Karl Schaffer, Fran Spector Atkins, Monterey Dance Collective and 3Cities3Choreograhers tour.
Classes: Modern |
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Mary Sherman |
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Mary has worked with the Governor's
Council on Fitness. She is a Certified Conditioning and Post Rehab Conditioning
Specialist and Advanced Personal Trainer certified by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Her work has been cited in Allure, Self, Fitness Now and Studio Dance Review.
She has 26 years of teaching experience.
Classes: Pilates | Sculpting | Spinning | Essential Flexibility |
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Maggie Sapienza |
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Maggie Sapienza began dancing at the age of ten with David and Elyse Roxander. She joined Dance Theatre Seven's Professional training program in 1995. Maggie was hired full time at DT7 as the first staff member trained exclusively by DT7. She directed the Preschool Program for over 7 years, co-directed the Professional Program, and was Ballet Mistress for the full length ballet Surealia. Upon retirement of the Roxander/White family, Maggie took over as owner and director of DT7 from 2006 to 2009
Classes: Intro to Dance | Ballet |
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Micaya |
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Micaya has been a dancer, instructor, and choreographer for over 20 years. Formally trained in ballet, jazz, modern, and African dance forms, she began teaching hip-hop in the early 1990s. She is the producer of the San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest and the director and choreographer of SoulForce Dance Company. Micaya's choreography has been featured in corporate events as well as music videos, television, nightclubs, festivals, theaters, cabaret, and touring productions. www.micaya.com or www.sfhiphopdancefest.com
Classes: Hip Hop |
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Nicole Klaymoon |
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Nicole Klaymoon received a BA in dance from UCLA. Her work has been showcased at Miami Project Hip-Hop, Oregon Shakespear Festival, Illadelph Legends of Hip-Hop Festival, the Electric Lodge in L.A. Bootleg Theatre, Fruede, and American College Dance Festival. She has collaborated with d. Sabela Grimes and performed in works directed by Rennie Harris and Marc Bamuthi-Joseph.
Classes: Hip Hop Cardio Groove |
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Stacey Printz |
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Stacey Printz, director of the Printz Dance Project (PDP) received her sociology and dance degrees from UC Irvine.
She teaches at throught the Bay Area, St. Mary’s College, Sonoma State University and
conducts master classes and workshops for Universities and studios across the United States and internationally.
Printz has received numerous awards and grants
including Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W&F Hewlett Foundation, Fort Mason Foundation, and is the
recent recipient of the New Work Fellowship from the Marin Arts Arts Council. www.printzdance.org
Classes: Modern Jazz |
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Rana Satori |
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Rana is Founder of the Marin Contact Jam, Founding Artistic Director of the Shamanic Cheerleaders, a member of the clown company Fou Fou Ha!, a stiltwalker for Earth Circus and performs avidly around the Bay Area. She is also a graduate of the Tamalpa Institute and 2 year assistant teacher with Anna Halprin. Rana balances the structure and athleticism of contact improv with playful mindfulness to create a fun environment for learning.
Classes: Contact Improvisation |
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Shana Walt |
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Shana has extensive training in jazz, tap,
ballet, and gymnastics and received a full scholarship to the
Academy of Performing Arts in San Diego. She was a member of Unity
Dance Ensemble and traveled throughout the US, Coasta
Rica, and Sweden as a performer. Unity Dance Ensemble awarded Shana
as 'dancer of the year' in 2005. She has taught dance for adults and youth in Hawaii and San
Diego at The Academy of Performing Arts and the
Culture Shock Dance Center. Shana is a
massage and craniosacral therapist and thrives on
creating a bridge of healing through movement and
movement through healing.
Classes: Contemporary | Yoga Boogie Ballet |
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Samuka |
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Master Samuka began practicing Capoeira in 1979 at school in Salvador, Ba. A year later I was" baptized". My first graduation was when I was 22 years old. by them I understood my responsibility toward Capoeira. so I started teaching on march 15,1993 in Sao Paulo SP (Associacao de massagem oriental do Brasil). As the years went by I had to face many challenges, but they only made me stronger and more aware of my responsibility toward Capoeira. Due to the work I had been carrying out at the academy. My student raised me to the status of "Master" on November 15, 1998.
Classes: Capoeira |
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Teya Chavez-Krotkey |
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For 20 years Teya has brought Soul Sanctuary Healing Arts & Reclaiming Dance Art Project to Marin and abroad. She utilizes her training in contemporary and ethnic dance styles as well as somatic movement therapy training in all her classes .Teya earned her BA, from San Francisco State University in Communications,with Holistic Health & Dance studies. She is a certified yoga therapist & group exercise instructor through Hayward State University. A graduate from the National Holistic Institute she holds Advanced Body Worker & Holistic Health Educator Certifications which are integral to her teaching style. Teya's website
Classes: Cardio Sol Sweat | Yoga Sculpt | Zumba |
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Tika Morgan |
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Tika Morgan has trained in Modern, Jazz, and dances of
the
African diaspora since age 4.
She has performed both internationally and regionally
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most recently was company member
of Tania Santiago's Aguas Da Bahia. Tika has
devoted
the past 15 years to a continuous study of
Afro-Folkloric dance. She began teaching her Brazilian
Rhythms classes in 1998 and has
choreographed for Carnival Parades, Concerts and
Musical
Revues.
Classes: Brazilian | Cardio Samba | Zumba | Afro-Folkloric |
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