Instructors

  • Andrea Anwar

    Andrea has performed Middle Eastern dance in theaters, cabarets, museums, universities, and night clubs in New York City and abroad since 1990. She has performed as a soloist and company member with Elena Lentini's Caravanserai, New York Performing A..
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  • Ciko

    Ciko was drawn to Tango at social dance floors of New York City in 2004 by the magical energy and exchange she saw on the dance floor. Her motivation to pursue tango has been the connection to another soul & body, as well as her own, through a mu..
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  • Victoria-Hadar

    Victoria-Hadar is unique to the NY Latin Dance scene. Her style is defined by its musicality, sensuality and playfulness. She has specialized
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  • Adam Hoopengardner

    Adam Hoopengardner excels in many styles of tango which gives him the opportunity to dance with everyone from the most traditional salon dancer, to the milonguera, to the more nuevo dancers. Adam's philosophy of tango is centered on the energy one fe..
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  • Frankie Martinez

    Frankie Martinez is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most revolutionary salsa performer/choreographers of our time. Many struggle to find comparisons, invoking such names as Ailey and Tharp when describing the impact of his vision. &nb..
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  • Cindi Sasaki

    As a young dancer Cindi Sasaki competed on the East Coast and became a NORTH AMERICAN DISCO-HUSTLE CHAMPION. Her local fame brought her media attention, finally performing on national television for the hit show DANCE FEVER. Cindi turned her atten..
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  • Ricardo Torres

    Ricardo was born in Cartegena, Colombia. As a chid he studied Ballet and Columbia folk dance. At 14 Ricardo joined the dance
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  • Tammy Halaburda

    Tammy has been teaching social dance for over twenty years. Originally she began at Shall We Dance in both Toms River and Sea Girt, NJ and eventually became the Founder and Director of You Should Be Dancing...! in 1999. Tammy specializes in Ballroom,..
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  • Ashley "Angel" McKenna

    Known in the Salsa Scene as "Angel", Ashley McKenna is the Founder and Director of Cosalda Dance Company. She is a veteran Instructor with over 14 years experience in teaching beginners how to dance. A recognized Adjudicator, as well as a professiona..
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  • Dragan Ranitovic

    Dragan, a native of Serbia, has been living in New York City since the early 1990s. A dance professional with interests and teaching experience in many styles – International and American Ballroom, salsa, hustle, West Coast swin
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  • Zulma Rodriguez

    Zulma has been performing professionally since the age of 7. Her parents through their Puerto Rican culture passed down the love of dance. She studied Jazz at The Dance Academy in Rockville Centre as a teenager. She and another dancer started a dance..
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  • Nourhan Sharif

    Nourhan Sharif has been a practitioner of the healing art of Raks Sharqi (aka Bellydance) for 30 years, specializing in Egyptian, Lebanese Cabaret and Folkloric Dance. With an intimate knowledge of Arabic custom and culture, Nourhan is an award-winni..
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  • Robert Vance

    Robert Anthony Vance is one of NYC's finest dancers and dance instructors. With over 25 years of experience in all forms of dance, and many awards and titles to his credit, he has gained a vast knowledge in all the partnering dances. He is a former N..
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  • Rachel McMullin

    Rachel McMullin first started dancing as a part of Musical Theater performance. Upon receiving her degree in Theatre from NYU, she continued down another performing arts path by taking up partner dancing. After sampling Salsa and Argen
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  • Tara Weinstein

    Physics teacher by day, dancer by night, Tara Weinstein has been teaching Lindy Hop, Charleston, and Balboa since 2006. Although she had studied ballet for years as a child in Canada, she started swing dancing while living in Providence,
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  • Alfredo Melendez

    Alfredo's love of dancing began with salsa as a young boy and his passion for it led him to become a partner dance instructor. Dance has greatly influenced all o
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  • Jenny Levina

    Excellence, showmanship, dedication, and the diligence to constantly strive and achieve success - those are the qualities necessary for any dancer to not only become good, b
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  • Risa Cohen

    Originally from Toronto, Canada, Risa Cohen has been a dance and fitnes
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  • Gina Noel D'Ambrosio

    Gina Noel D'Ambrosio was the founder and Director of Salsa International, a Latin social dance program based in midtown Ma
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  • Jason Nino

  • Evelyn Ramirez

    Evelyn Ramirez was born to Cuban and Puerto Rican parents, and her love of dance grew through her study of Cuban Salsa an
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  • Stephanie Lynn Shapiro

    Stephanie began ballet classes at the age of five in her hometown of Parkridge, Illinois. In high school she traded in her ballet slippers for Drill Team/Flag Corp dancing shoes. She than moved
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