Xin
Ballet, Chinese Dance, Creative Dance Instructor
Ms. Xin graduated in dance education and successfully completed a four-year training program at the renowned dance school, Peridance, in New York. She has trained in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz and Social Dances. She worked with several dance studios and has created many ballet, contemporary, theater dances for kids and teens, reminding them to "dance with passion and love".
Currently, she works as a teaching artist at Dancing Classrooms, a non-profit organization, where she teaches and brings joy to public elementary school students across all five boroughs of New York City.
Anri
Hip-Hop Instructor
Anri Nakano Green is a dancer and choreographer from Fukuoka, Japan. Her life purpose is to express her passion and creativity through dance, help others tap into their own inspiration, and together create peaceful loving, inclusive spaces. Anri has danced in cities around the world, including New York, Massachusetts, California, Venezuela, Sweden, and Japan. Currently serving as a Teaching Artist for Dancing Classrooms, Anri is committed to providing dance education for K-5 students in NYC, igniting a love for movement and expression in young learners. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.F.A. in Dance/Theatre from CUNY Lehman College. She is currently pursuing her teacher certificate through the Dance Education Laboratory Institute.
Amanda
Hip-Hop Instructor
Born and raised in San Francisco, Amanda knew at an early age that she was passionate about the performing arts. Throughout her years in school and at work, she would go out of her way to ensure there was a place for dance, theater, and music in her life. In 2017, Amanda eventually moved to NYC to pursue dance. She was a professional dancer on Yamulée Dance Company, and has most recently completed her contract with Virgin Voyages as a dancer on their brand new show, Another Rose. Now Amanda performs and teaches both children and adults across New York City and Los Angeles.
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Sharon
Yoga, Zumba Instructor
Sharon Moreno is an artist born in Panama City. She began training in dance at 18 and quickly realized a passion for modern dance, teaching, and performance. Staying true to her roots, she also teaches multiple Afro, modern, Latin American folkloric dance styles and conditioning classes as Zumba and flexibility. She graduated from undergrad at the University of Panama and the National School of Dance in Panama in 2020. Where she had two years learning so much material about yoga as a discipline to develop the body condition. In 2021, she moved to New York City to study at the Martha Graham School. She has since performed at Lincoln Center's "Table of Silence," at Judson Church with Movement Research. And performs with the "Pajarito Pinta'o" company by Daniel Fetecua, Company Redacted, Fruto Ancestral company , Sur dance company, and now is performing as company artist with Modarts Dance Company along with many more freelance performances ranging from theaters to festivals and parades. Sharon dedicates her life to sharing the skills she has been honored to learn by teaching in Latinamerica, where there is less access to specific techniques. She has taught in Chile, Panama and Colombia with plans to continue sharing affordable and accessible workshops through the educational project -Compartiendo
por Latam- created and founded by Sharon Moreno.
Currently she's sharing knowledge in Xin Dance Studio and Super Star Dance Studio at New York City.
Jae
K-Pop Instructor
Jae is a Dancer born and raised in Busan South Korea , moved to NYC when he was 6. He started his dance journey since he was little. He moved back to Korea at the age at 10 for 4 years to trained Under JYP entertainment but moved back to Nyc to pursue his educational track. He Graduated from Princeton University at age 21 with a chemistry and psychology degree a. During his time at Princeton he led not one but 4 dance teams that specialize in both Kpop and hiphop for 3 and half years. He has a passionate flame for dance. Always learning new styles including popping , break and contemporary. He is a young instructor and only started to teach in early 2022 but has come along way with building a foundation and relationship with teaching Kids , teens and young adults. Kpop may be one genre but there's a lot of different sub genres in the style going from kpop-hip to kpop-lyrical. He is currently pursuing his dream of being a doctor by attending NYU grossman school of medicine this upcoming fall.