Alan Scofield | Alison De Oliveira | Anna Gottreich | Annie Rosenthal Parr | Armando Maldonado| Ashley Holladay | Carrie Sisk | Daisy Stoloff | Eric Fenn | Gabrielle Thompson | Jackie Burns | Jena McRae | Joan Lazarus | Mary Sherman | Micaya | Keith Pinto| Shana Walt | Stacey Printz | Lee Lee Brewster | Tika Morgan
  Alan Scofield
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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  Alison De Oliveria
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 II | Jazz
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  Anna Gottreich
Anna has over 10 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
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 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 II
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  Armando Maldonado
Armando Maldonado began dancing In Albuquerque, NM, performing and training with Ballet Theatre Southwest. Armando moved to San Francisco in 2001 to continue his training as a scholarship student at the conservatory for the Academy of Ballet, studying under directors Richard Gibson and Zory Korah. Armando was a soloist for the student company, Chamber Dance. He has picked up his training in Marin County.

Classes: Ballet
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  Ashey Holladay
Ashley Holladay received her BA in Fine Arts, from the University of Irvine, CA. She lived New York City, where she was dancing professionally with The Mark Morris Dance Co., and Steeledance company.   She also had the opportunity to hang with Bill T. Jones Co., and David Dorfman Dance, which was very enlightening. Upon falling in love with Yoga - she attended a certification program and is now living in Marin, actively teaching yoga and dance.

Classes: yoga move
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  Carrie Sisk
Carrie Sisk has been a NASM personal trainer and group fitness instructor since 1997 as well as having a B.A. in Kinesiology. She has been training and teaching high energy spinning, cardio and sculpting classes in the bay area for the past 10 years. After leaving Indiana University as a Big Ten tennis champion, Carrie continues to excel in competitive running and cycling events. She has competed in 15 marathons, multi-day adventure races, ultra bike rides and many 50k- 100mile trail races.

Classes: Cardio Pump
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  Daisy Stoloff
Daisy Stoloff 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. Now based in SF, Daisy performs with Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble, teaches throughout the Bay Area and choreographs and directs RoCoi's Youth Dance Co. BodyLanguage.

Classes: Modern Jazz | Modern
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  Eric Fenn
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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  Gabrielle Thompson
Gabrielle has toured with Landini Dance Co. and performed as a guest soloist with Highly Unlikely for Dance Mission, Harry Denton's Rouge, West Coast Dance, Ballet Counterpointe and David McNaughton. Gabrielle is the co-director of the dance department at Ursuline High School and directs the jazz dept. at Dance innovations where she trains students and choreographs for state and national competitions. Gabrielle recently became an honorary member of Dance Masters of America.

Classes: Jazz | Ballet
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  Jackie Burns
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: Beg. Hip Hop | Step | Dance Fit
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  Jenn Messina
Jena began teaching and dancing professionally in the Bay Area while she was still in high school. She recently graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor Degree in Dance/ Performance studies and History where she studied modern, West African, salsa, Afro-Caribbean, and hip-hop -- with award-winning Hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris. She also traveled to Senegal to study contemporary African dance with world-renowned choreographer Germaine Acogny.

Classes: House Yoga

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  Joan Lazarus
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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  Keith Pinto
Keith Pinto graduated from the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts and has toured with Fame - The Musical throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada and he was a member of the Mountain View Dance Attack! Performing Company. Keith currently lives in San Francisco where he is a musician and MC in the hip hop band Felonious and he teaches hip hop in San Francisco,San Jose State University and Dance Attack!, Los Gatos.

Classes: Hip Hop
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  LeeLee Brewster
Lee Lee has been a very active and familiar face in the dance community for over 12 years. She has danced with Mind Over Matter and choreograped and performed for Jocelyn Enriquez. Lee Lee was the Artistic Director of Culture Shock SF and Culture Shock Oakland, for six years and toured as a dancer with Usher, danced for Destinys Child and with Tyrese. Lee Lee is the director of Khamai Dance Company and DWB, Dancers Without Boundaries and she is a member of Soul Sector.

Classes: Hip Hop
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  Mary Sherman
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 movement
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  Micaya
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 I
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  Nicole Klaymoon
Nicole klaymoon received her bachelors in dance from UCLA. She has performed her one-woman show in Miami Project Hip-Hop, Illadelph legends of hip-hop, La Pena Cultural Center, and the Edinbergh Fringe Festival in Scottland. She has collaborated with d. Sabela Grimes and performed in works directed by Rennie Harris, Marc bamuthi-Joseph, Maria Gellespie, and David Dorfman. Her choreography was selected by the American College Dance Festival to be in the Gala at the Carpenter Center.

Classes: Cardio House Dance | Beginning Modern

 

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  Stacey Printz
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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  Shana Walt
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: Cardio Rhythms | Yoga Boogie Ballet
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  Tika Morgan
Tika Morgan has trained in Modern, Jazz, and dances of the African diaspora since age 4. She has performed both internationally and regionally and 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 Rhythms
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