Tricia spent most of her career in New York, and has been seen in Broadway shows such as “Grease,” “A Chorus Line,” and “Swing!” Aside from her work in musicals, she has also performed with several recording artists, in trade shows, Equity fights Aids benefits, and for movie premiers in Manhattan...
Tim Rubel is a dancer, choreographer and dance educator. He received his M.F.A in Dance/Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside. He has taught on the dance faculties at San Francisco State University and Mt San Jacinto College, and has been a guest teacher at Pomona College,...
Veronika, originally from the Ukraine, started her dance journey with hip-hop. She was then drawn to the sensuous rhythms of Cuban salsa, training with some of the top dancers in Europe before moving to the US. Once here, she was exposed to other styles of salsa. Applying her formidable natural...
Jennifer Olson Started her tango career in Portland, Oregon, and it has now taken Jennifer all over the world: to Europe, to Argentina and Uruguay, and extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
Without a home and constantly on tour for the last nine years, Jennifer is happy to continue spreading...
Valerie Demattei is a Salsa and Bachata dancer from the San Francisco Bay Area,
specializing in teaching dance to those who have never danced before!
As a young girl, Valerie enjoyed ballet & ballroom dancing.
She started dancing Salsa in 2009 and Bachata in 2010
under the instruction of the very...
Capoeira is a collective art form that brings together dance, music, acrobatics and martial arts. Created four centuries ago by African slaves in Brazil in their struggle for freedom & survival, capoeira was still illegal to practice until the 1930s, but since then has acquired enormous popularity...
Rodolfo Guzman, a native of Mexico City, Mexico – grew up listening to classic Mambo music that his father enjoyed dancing & listening to.
Rodolfo has a natural ability to “break it down” and explain things simply & clearly.
He is co-owner of Symbolic Dance & Fitness and...
Ava Apple – a San Francisco native,
has been dancing professionally since her teens.
She has performed & taught throughout the USA and in Hong Kong,
Italy, and The Netherlands,
and has received honors for her contribution
to the world of Salsa & Latin Dance at the
2002 West Coast Salsa...
Oreet specializes in “Modern Egyptian” dance,
which is a contemporary and innovative twist on the traditional Egyptian style.
It fuses modern dance, ballet and Oreet’s Yemenite/Israeli roots to create a high energy bellydance style.As a performer and teacher she combines passion, grace,...
Julie Lowe has danced and taught professionally for over 25 years. As a Principal Ballerina with the Oakland Ballet Company, she toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, performing many of the company’s leading roles, and working alongside luminaries of the dance world.
Upon retiring...
