What's new for 2020? Join a flamenco class!

Dance Classes - All Levels
​Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Class Level Guidelines:
Level 1:  Little to no experience
Level 2:   Beginners looking to transition into intermediate dance
Level 3: Intermediate
Level 4:  Advanced
Tuesday Afternoons, 4pm - 5pm: Begining Level 2, $20 per class
Technique for students at a beginning level who would like to increase their skill level using fundamental footwork patterns and body exercises. The goal is to move students into intermediate level classes when ready. Location; Joelle's Home Studio.
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Wednesday Nights at Finely Center, 5:30-6:30: Basic Technique Level 1,   $48/8 weeks
These 8 week workshops, beginning January 8,  are for students new to flamenco. Very basic technique exercises and choreography are taught, accompanied by professional musicians. Register by calling the Finely Center at (707) 543-3737 or register online as a returning student   HERE.
(Workshops: January 8, 2020 - February 26, 3/11 - 4/29, 5/13 - July 1)

Thursday Mornings, 10:45 - 11:45: Intermediate Level 3, $20 per class
Students will work on various footwork combinations in different flamenco rhythms, incorporating upper body work, hands and palmas. Location is Joelle's Home Studio.

Friday Mornings, 10:30 - 11:30: Improv Skills Class 3, $20 per class
Students will learn  to  understand and respond to the complex musical language of flamenco. Listening frees the student up to be able to dance within the flamenco rhythm structure. Location is Joelle's Home Studio.

Instructor Biography

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​Joelle has been teaching  in  Santa Rosa, CA since 2003. She has also been invited as a guest instructor for local performing arts schools and in Santa Fe, NM. 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. The classes she 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."