Dance Classes - All Levels
​Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday

Class Level Guidelines:
Level 1: Little to no experience in flamenco.
Level 2: Beginners looking to transition into intermediate dance.
Level 3: Intermediate.
Level 4: Advanced.

​Level 1 Technique and Choreography 
Aug 7th - Sep 25th
Wednesday's 5:30pm-6:30pm
Joelle will be fresh back from her recent trip to Spain! Come and experience a class with all new material and techniques. In addition, each class includes palmas technique (rhythmic hand clapping), basic exercises and choreography. This class will be accompanied by professional flamenco guitarist, Mark Taylor. Register by calling the Finely Center (707) 543-3737 or register online HERE

Level 2 Technique:  
Tuesday Afternoons, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Technique for students wishing to increase their skill level with beginning to intermidiate technique. $20 drop in. 

Level 3 Choreography:
Thursday Mornings, 10:45am-11:45am
Get some groove in your Sevillanas and learn new material for each copla y entre copla. Technique in the use of castanets and fan will be a part of this class. $20 drop in. 

ALL Levels Cuadro Skills:  
8 Sunday Evenings, 7pm - 8pm
May 26 - June 21 (no class Sunday, June 9)
It's not about the difficulty of the moves, it's about knowing what goes where. This workshop will teach you to listen and respond to the music with the most basic of moves. Each class will give students the chance to take turns and dance, learn to support dancers by playing palmas, and communicate to the musicians with your movements. $150 for all 8 classes or $20 drop in. Drop-in's welcome, please email in advance for location

Instructor Bio

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About the Instructor: As a professional dancer, teacher, and director of SolFlamenco, Joelle has performed throughout the West Coast and continues to teach in Santa Rosa, CA. Her refreshing approach to teaching involves character building exercises, translating the understanding of complex flamenco rhythms, and helping to reveal each students unique strengths. She has received awards from the Sonoma Arts Council and in 2009 she received a personal letter from Cirque du Soleil talent scout, Guilio Scatola, requesting her audition (after seeing her perform at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts) for the production of Ka.

Joelle returns to Spain regularly to further her dance training and continues to study with such notable flamenco artists as Pilar Ortega, Paky del Rio, and most recently, Leonor Leal. The classes that Joelle teaches in Santa Rosa are based on smaller portions of the choreography she learns there. "I bring Spain back with me so that I can share the joy that I am so fortunate to experience."

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