Folkloric Dancing with Tegan C.

Hi there! I am really looking forward tutoring you or your child! As, you can see on my profile, I have several subjects listed and I am 100% confident in each and everyone! I have a very eclectic background and a whole lot of varied experience. Let me tell you a little about myself and my experience: I offer group and private lessons in various forms of belly dance, salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, club/social dancing, dance fitness, and world dance fusion. Belly dance: I was trained in belly dancing through Jawaahir, an internationally renowned dance company and the only school in all the midwest that teaches Middle Eastern dance in it's entirety. Latin dances: I learned the Latin dance forms listed above while living in Central America. I continued to research various styles by region and the folkloric and colonial roots of such dances. It's important to understand that "Latin America" is a very big place, and while ballroom styles often group the forms together, in reality, there are many variations just as in language. If language can have accents, why wouldn't dance? I won't just teach you to cumbia, I'll make sure that you know the difference between Salvadorean, Mexican, and Colombian cumbia - I'll make sure you're prepared for any situation! Dance Fitness: I am a former zumba instructor, but have since dropped my certification and developed a world fusion dance fitness program that uses a much wider variety of world dances and focuses on not just fitness, but grounding, flexibility, strength, balance, dancing abilities, and even relaxation skills. I am only teaching forms that I am knowledgeable in (you don't have to know anything about culture or even know how to dance to be a zumba instructor and my experience is that steps are frequently paired with the wrong time of music making for good fitness, but a poor educational program and one that you certainly cannot apply to the dance floor). I take an anthropological and educated approach to the program, applying dance forms authentically and using them as tools to target various areas of fitness and development. While me focus is in dance, I have a robust professional background and more than a decade experience in stage acting and spoken word. I can tutor in line memorization and delivery, stage presence, and utilization of a theatrical space. There is a lot that goes into a great performance!