Dance Workshop Faculty
Summer Session 2011
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Pamela Trokanski
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Pamela Trokanski is the Director of the Dance Workshop.
She holds a BA in Dance and has been teaching,
choreographing, and performing for 30 years. She
teaches a wide range of classes at the studio, reflecting
her interest and belief in the importance of a "multilingual
approach" to a dancer's training. She teaches the
Modern/Contemporary Classes, as well as Jazz, Earth
Rhythms (an African -ethnic based dance form) Dance
Improvisation and Ballet level Beginning I for children. She
also teaches all the Pre-Ballet Classes.
Click on her name or picture to find out more!
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Denise Fladager
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Denise Fladager, former dancer with the San
Francisco Ballet, has a strong background in Russian
and Balanchine technique. She teaches Ballet,
Pointe, and the Ballet Workout class.
Click on her name or picture to find out more and see
an interview with Denise.
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Heather Wysong
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Heather Wysong comes to us with 23 years of
formal ballet training, choreographic expertise,
and experience in the teaching of ballet. She
currently teaches levels Beginning II & III for
children and pre-teens/teens, as well as a
Beginning III/Inter I Ballet.
Click on her name or picture to find out more and
see an interview with Heather.
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Caitlin Tiffany
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Caitlin Tiffany is a student at UC Davis majoring in
psychology with an emphasis in biology. She has been
dancing for 16 years and trained in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop,
and lyrical/contemporary. She has taught dance to students
ranging in age from 7 to 18, in San Jose, since 2006.
After two years on her high school dance team, she led
them to win the title of Grand National champions as
co-captain of the team at the United Spirit Association's
nationals in Anaheim.
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Eric Kim
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Third year UC Davis student,
Eric Kim joins us teaching Hip
Hop with an emphasis on
Popping.
As co-president for the UC
Davis Popping Club, he
teaches and choreograph
works for performance as well
as facilitates collaboration
performances between the
Popping club and other dance
groups.
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Ayre Briar
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Ayre Briar has been studying belly dance since 2006
and has been performing in the greater Sacramento
area since 2009. She has over 10 years of experience
teaching subjects such as math, science and English,
and has been teaching belly dance since early 2010.
She currently performs with three local dance troupes
whose styles range from Tribal Fusion Belly Dance to
Oriental (Cabaret) Belly Dance to World Dance. Ayre
also performs as a percussionist for fire performers,
yoga retreats and other events. In addition to studying
dancing and drumming, she has been running a small
photography business since 2004. Ayre Briar received
her B.A. from UC Berkeley in Astrophysics.
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Robin Zelko
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Robin Zelko joins us, bringing over a decade of training
in multiple dance forms, including Jazz, Modern, Ballet,
Hip Hop, and Tap. Her teaching experience includes
teaching at Santa Barbara Dance Arts and Everybody
Dance Now!, a non-profit working with under-served
children. Her performance experience includes the San
Marcos Varsity Dance Team (including competition at
both State and National levels,) Fusion Dance
Company, and she is currently on the UC Davis Hip Hop
Team. She's going back home for the summer, but will
return to teach in the fall!
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