Dance Workshop Faculty, continued
2011-2012
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Kalila
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Kalila has studied dance formally since 1999 including classes in
ballet, jazz, hip hop, modern, African, and raks sharki (belly
dance). Her study of belly dance began in 2004, and she fell in
love with it, focusing her study of dance intensively on cabaret style
belly dance and traditional folk dances of the Middle East and
North Africa.
Kalila began performing belly dance professionally in 2005 with
Sacramento Middle Eastern dance troupe, The Jewels of the Nile.
In 2006 she was featured on the cover of belly dance magazine,
Zaghareet and has been a periodic contributor to the magazine
since then. In 2008 she became director and choreographer for
The Jewels of the Nile and performs regularly with them as well
as performing solo at restaurants and events throughout northern
California.
Kalila has been teaching cabaret style belly dance since 2005,
and her beginning classes cover cabaret and baladi movements
as well as use of finger cymbals and education on cultural context
of the dance. She holds a BA in Liberal Studies from CSU
Sacramento as well as a Multiple Subjects teaching credential.
Kalila is also certified as a YogaFit Level 3 instructor and is
currently pursuing both her Yoga Therapy certification and her
Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.
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Cheryl Woods
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Cheryl Woods holds a BA in Government and Environmental
Studies from Sacramento State University and an Emergency
Teaching credential from Fresno. She has been dancing for
over 20 years, and dancing competitively for over 10 of those
years, in tap and jazz/lyrical divisions.
Her performance experience also includes work with various
troupes in the Vacaville and Sacramento areas, including one
directed by Ron Cisceros, (choreographed for Disney,) and a
student troupe in Oxford, England.
Her teaching experience includes 8 years of work with students
ages 3 - 40 in hip hop, jazz, lyrical, tap, wing and salsa. She
recently has a son and is excited to get back into the dance
world!
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Juliana Johnson
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Julianna is a student at UC Davis majoring in biological
science. She has trained since the age of three with
Arlene Newhouse, director, Academy of Arts and Ballet. As
a member of Ballet Celeste International she has
performed with the Theatre Ballet of San Francisco and
the Moscow Festival Ballet. She attended summer
programs with Oakland Ballet, Diablo Ballet, Moving Arts
Dance, and American Ballet Theater in Detroit. In 2006,
she joined the Peninsula Ballet Theatre as an apprentice.
Three years later she joined Michael Lowe’s company,
Black Diamond Ballet, in its inaugural year. Julianna is
Miss Solano 2011, a titleholder in the Miss America
Organization.
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Sarah Graham
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Sarah Graham is a certified Zumba
instructor, and currently attending school to
get her degree in nutrition.
Her early dance training included ballet (RAD)
while her later training focused on jazz, hip
hop and earth rhythms. She has worked as a
swim instructor at Swim America Davis, where
her specialty was "Mommy and Me" classes.
Her love of teaching led to her getting her
certification in Zumba. This August she
completed her training and certification for
Zumbatomic, which is Zumba, specialized for
children. She is currently one, of only two,
certified teachers of Zumbatomics in Yolo
County. Now that she has this ceritfication,
she hopes to start teaching people of all ages,
bringing her love of dance and fitness to the
community. Beginning Wintoer 2012, Sarah is
also teaching Mommy & Me classes!
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Halle Shauer
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Halle Shauer has spent the last three years doing
Cheer. At West Potomac High School, she was
Captain of the team, where she was also the
recipient of the Coaches Award, (2009-2010.) She
most recently cheered at Davis Senior High, for the
2010-2011 season, where they placed 5th out of 28
teams at the United Spirit Association’s finals in
Anaheim. In addition, Halle has training in a variety
of dance styles. Her teaching experience includes
being a Youth Basic Sailing instructor, at Belle
Haven Marina, and a Camp Counselor for ages 4 –
9, at Burgundy Farms Summer Day Camp, both in
Virginia. She is also trained in adult and child CPR,
AED, and First Aid. She recently made the Senior
Cheer Team at Alpha and Omega, a competition
cheer organization, based in Sacramento. They are
National Champions (and the coach appeared as a
"stunter" in the first "Bring It On" movie!)
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Drika Makariev
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Drika Makariev began dancing in 1984 and trained
on full scholarship at Pennsylvania Academy of
Ballet, Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, San
Francisco Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet
Schools. Her professional experience includes work
with Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet,
Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, and Universal Ballet.
She retired in 2001, to pursue her education,
receiving a PhD in Developmental Psychology, in
August 2011, from the University of California, Davis,
with a focus on children’s social and cognitive
development.
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