Transforming lives through dance
Creative Movement
Katie Skinner is a Brooklyn-based performer and dance maker. She teaches Creative Ballet for ages 3-4 and 5-6 at Dancewave, where her classes are centered around firing up the imagination while learning fundamental movement and vocabulary. Read more…
Salsa
Ra Ruíz Leon is a poet and dancer from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Ra began her studies in dance with traditional Boricua roots music, Bomba y Plena. Ra served as Managing Director for the flamenco dance company Xianix Barrera Flamenco. Currently she is Latin Dance Teaching Artist Read more…
Modern ○ Youth Company Coach
Raised in Vermont, Aria Roach graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University with her BFA in Dance and Choreography. As an undergraduate she spent a semester at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel and received a 2015 Dean’s International Study Grant to travel to Vienna, Austria. Read more…
African ○ Afro-Caribbean ○ Hip Hop
Kameica Reid, renowned Jamaican choreographer, dance performer and instructor, has worked with artists such as Rev Run from Run DMC, Patra, Tarrus Riley, Sizzla, Beenie Man, Wayne Wonder, Tami Chynn, Alaine, Cecile, Elephant Man, Baby Sham, Alicia Keyz, and more. Read more…
Zumba
Kuni is a Certified Zumba Fitness instructor for five years. She has been studying various styles of dance and performed for more than 20 years. Since Kuni discovered Zumba Fitness, it has played a transformative role in her life. She instantly fell in love with Zumba Read more…
Barre Vida
Autumn Oftedal is from Yakima, WA and graduated cum laude with her BFA in Dance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She is trained in ballet, modern, jazz, and tap, as well as creative movement and choreography. Graduating with several chronic injuries, Autumn turned to yoga Read more…
Modern
Debbie Mausner graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, she began her formal dance training at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and The Ailey School. As part of Barnard/Columbia Dances she performed in works by Pam Tanowitz,
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Youth Company Coach
Bethany Logan graduated from Ohio University with a BFA in Dance & Choreography and a Minor in Psychology in May 2015. She is a Brooklyn-based teaching artist, dancer, choreographer, 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Personal Trainer. Read more…
Secretary
Stacie Sherer is Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for WW International, Inc. (formerly Weight Watchers.) In this role, she leverages communications to help the company to fulfill its purpose to inspire healthy habits for real life – for people, families, communities, the world – for everyone. Read more…
Ballet ○ Creative Movement
Hailey Brynne Kemp, a native to Washington D.C., is a contemporary professional dancer and choreographer, who has worked with Reggie Wilson, Sarah Michelson, Rebecca Stenn, and Neil Greenberg. She is a graduate of Eugene Lang College: Read more…