Teacher Info
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Angela Johnson
Angela Johnson is not the average dance teacher. She actually started out in music, playing the flute, marching in a marching band, and singing in a garage band. But all the creative energy she spent in music just carried her over to what she really wanted to do. She recaptured her dancing desire and carried that talent to ALL THAT DANCE Company. She followed the natural state of progression and started teaching dance. She now has her Masters degree in Dance and has taught many children in the greater Los Angeles area in many of the child care and pre-schools around the city. Currently she is a full time dance instructor for the City of Gardena teaching ballet, tap, performance dance, modern and contemporary dance classes. She also is a dance instructor for the City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreation with a class of 32 children ranging from 5 to 18 and also a dance teacher for Dare Dance in the City of Los Angeles after school programs. In addition, she is Co-Director of All That Dance Company and is owner of Community Dance Outreach, a program that caters to inner city children by offering traditional ballet classes.
| Maria Morca
Maria Morca, born into a family of musicians and dancers, started dancing at an early age. Her training of Oriental and Interpretive dance began when she became a protégé of the Ruth St. Denis Foundation in Hollywood. She has an extensive background in ballet, classical Spanish, Flamenco and many other ethnic dance forms. Maria has been a professional dancer since the age of nineteen, has toured the United States and Canada, and has performed on stage and in nightclubs all over the continent, including Las Vegas. Her film and television credits include I Dream of Jeannie, Gun Smoke, Mission Impossible, I Spy, Run For Your Life, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Story of Ruth, Can Can, Hello Dolly, Ship of Fools, and Go North to Alaska to name a few. She also coached and choreographed in Hollywood for over a period of twelve years. She then founded the highly successful Academy of Dance Arts in Toronto, Canada, and later in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. She created the prominent performance group, Maria Morca and the Dances of Spain, acting as director and solo dancer. Recently, Maria Morca has returned to California and is teaching in the San Pedro and Palos Verdes areas. Her aim in these classes is to develop physical fitness and self-expression through the dance. Besides teaching at her studio, she holds master classes, lectures and conducts seminars and workshops through the United States. She is also the author of Maria Morca’s Belly Dance Work Book. Maria can be contacted at: (310) 519-7479 or Mariamorca@sbcglobal.net.
| Sachiye Nakano
Sachiye Nakano has been a body practitioner for over 15 years. As a dancer and teacher of dance, she injured herself and began serious study of alternative forms of therapy. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®, Certified Zone Perfect Nutrition Instructor, Certified Bones for Life Teacher™, Certified Body Talk Practitioner, massage therapist and Professor Emeritus of Dance, Health and Physical Education with 36 years of experience teaching all levels from preschool to post graduate. She is a teaching assistant with the Uplegder Institute in Craniosacral Therapy and Mechanical Link. Recipient of the Eugene Pimentel Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1980, Sachiye is an excellent communicator and teacher in classes, workshops and private sessions. Intuition and creativity are her forte; she received a National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship in 1975. She uses these skills to create her own work using all the therapies she studied to help clients achieve health and easy movement free of pain. She continues to learn, test and develop treatments based on manual therapies, functional medicine and homeopathy. All products recommended are ones she has personally used or has tested specifically for each client.
| Melissa Fong
Dancing since the age of three, Melissa Fong has studied a variety of dance genres including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Flamenco, and Indonesian. Born and raised in San Pedro, Melissa graduated from San Pedro High in 2000. During her time at SPHS, she was actively involved with the Drill Team, Cheerleading, and Pirate Dancers. Following high school, she went on to attend UCLA where she earned her B.A. in World Arts and Cultures with an emphasis in Dance, and a minor in Applied Developmental Psychology. While at UCLA, she was a two-year member of the UCLA Dance Team and co-founder of OuttaWAC Undergrad Dance Company. Although she has relocated to West LA, Melissa still maintains her relationship with the San Pedro community teaching and choreographing for dance programs with SPHS and the SPPYMCA. She also continues to study dance at a variety of studios in West Los Angeles and Hollywood, focusing on Jazz/Lyrical dance.
| Carmen Infante
CARMEN INFANTE, a native of the Los Angeles Harbor area, started her technical dance training at the age of 7 with Ballet Folklorico. She continued to study Ballet, Jazz, Modern and Gymnastics. During her studies, she danced with The Ballet Folklorico del Pacifico Dance Company for five years. After a vacation to Spain in 1996 and falling in love with the passionate dance of Flamenco, she immediately started studying the art of Flamenco dance with Marcelina De Luna, Gabriella Garza and “Angelita” Macias from the famous “El Cid” Cabaret and Restaurant. In 1998, Carmen rediscovered Salsa dancing and began studying with Francisco Vasquez of “Los Rumberos Dance Company”. In 2000, she toured with illusionist, “Ayala - The Time is Now” appearing in Las Vegas at the New Orlean’s Casino and Lebanon’s “Casino de Lubon”. Upon her return from the Middle East, she studied Arabic Dance as well and performed for “Shoreh”, “Andy”, and many more. From 2000 to 2006, Carmen was a regular dancer on stage at the famous “Conga Room” in Los Angeles owned by Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Smits and Paul Rodriguez. She has danced for artists to include, “Poncho Sanchez”, “Jimmy Bosch”, “Son Mayor”, “La Palabra”, and many more. Carmen has spent the last ten years working in both Film and Television, and can be seen as a featured dancer in “Blow” with Johnny Depp, “Hot Chicks” with Rob Schneider, WB‘s “Charmed”, and many more. She has been a Salsa Instructor throughout the Los Angeles area for more than eight years teaching Beginning Salsa 101 and Beginning/Intermediate Salsa Dance. She is a Certified Fitness Instructor, teaching LATIN DANCE 4 FITNESS “La Bomba Fit” and “Belly Jamz”.
| Dawnielle Davis
| Melissa Anderson
| Drew Gutting
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