Thank you Rae Studios community for an incredible first half of 2024!
The Fall season is here and we're thrilled to bring you an amazing schedule filled with dynamic instructors! We're so grateful for summer season welcoming new faces, building community and pushing dance to the next level. Let's keep this momentum going in the final stretch of 2024. Training season is here!
Introducing our Fall 2024 schedule starting October 1st with classes offered at two locations, Rae Studios + UN Plaza, over 50+ classes and 35+ instructors offering classes daily! We've had such a great summer season introducing a revamped schedule, fresh faces and tons of community events! A huge thank you to our amazing community for your continued support for art, our artists and the love of dance! Here's to a new season of training and perseverance.
A big Thank you to our past instructors who will no longer be teaching at Rae Studios. We at Rae Studios always value our instructors and honor their growth as they continue to transition in life. For veteran and new teachers starting October 1st 2024, we are excited to start another season celebrating and highlighting your craft. Let's continue to support our local teachers this year by showing up ready to create new and memorable experiences. Just a reminder, every little action goes a long way. Bring a friend to class, write a testimonial, share your experience on your social channel or just tell an instructor about your gratitude. Most importantly, enjoy yourself. Rae Studios is here to build, educate and create.
Now, let's welcome to our Fall 2024 Instructor Roster! ❤
In-Studio Class Schedule | Effective October 1st - Dec. 31st
UN Plaza Class Schedule | Effective Oct. 1st - Dec. 30th
🎉 INTRODUCING OUR NEW/RETURNING INSTRUCTORS STARTING OCTOBER, 2024🎉
Andy Nguyen
K-Pop [All Levels]
Tuesdays, 5:00pm (at UN Plaza)
Andy Nguyen is a San Francisco native that started his dance career when he first joined SF Funkanometry’s youth team Funksters. He then graduated from funksters, to Project M, and now currently dances with Groove Against the Machines at In the groove studios in Oakland. He always had an interest in KPOP since young and found it as inspiration for him to go make dance covers or even create his own choreography to KPOP music. He has competed for KPOP cover competitions with Allkpop and KCON 2016 (GROO7E). Now he spreads his love for KPOP by teaching it at City Dance Studios, In the Groove Studios, and now excitedly to add to the list, Rae Studios!
Erica Knox
Ballet [Beginner]
Wednesdays, 4:30pm (In-Studio)
Erica Knox (she/her) is a dancer and educator. She graduated from Fordham University, studying History and IPE on a full academic scholarship, and recently completed Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Training Program. Some highlights of her teaching experience include tutoring college students academically, and giving ballet classes for a college ballet company. The past two summers she has been a teacher assistant for the LINES Ballet summer intensives. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes health of the body, imaginative metaphor and belief in new possibilities.
Monique Ross
Shuffle [Beginner]
Thursdays, 5:00pm (at UN Plaza)
Monique Ross (She/Her) is a proud California native, born and raised in San Jose. In 2024, she moved to San Francisco to fully pursue her passion for fitness and shuffle dance. As a dedicated fitness enthusiast, Monique has taught a wide range of group fitness classes, including full body HIIT cardio, Kickboxing and lower body Kettlebell training. She currently teaches at TruFusion, specializing in Kettle Booty and Bootcamp classes, where she thrives on motivating and training others to reach their fitness goals.
Monique's shuffle dance journey began in 2014 during the introduction to the mainstream festival and rave scene. Over the years, she refined her style as a "backyard shuffler," developing a deep love for the dance form. This year, 2024, she decided to bring her shuffle passion to the public, teaching at monthly San Francisco Shuffle meetups in Golden Gate Park.
Known for her engaging teaching style, Monique, as an EDM house head, works with beginner and intermediate dancers, sharing her expertise in shuffling, cutting shapes, footwork, freestyle combos and choreography. She finds immense joy in the self-expression shuffle dance offers, the connection it fosters with music and community, and the healing it has brought into her life. She can’t wait to share this with each one of you.
Instagram: @moe_fit_moe_shuffle
Fran Balagtas
K-Pop [All Levels]
Sundays, 10:00am (at UN Plaza)
Francesca Balagtas, aka Fran, was born in San Francisco but raised in Las Vegas. She started dance at the age of 4 doing tap and ballet. Throughout childhood and adolescence she added in other styles such as jazz, hip hop, street jazz, Hula, Tahitian, and Maori. At the age of 18, Fran moved back to her birthplace of San Francisco to study art in a BFA program for sculpture at San Francisco Art Institute. Although her studies were in visual arts, she always hungered for dance. She began dancing with many dance groups in San Francisco such as Bay Area Flash Mob, Sexitude, and Bay Area Dancers. After graduating from SFAI, she found herself getting back into k-pop music, something she had first discovered in high school. In 2017, Fran and her close friend, Patrick Santos, decided to start a K-pop dance class and group as a way to find other k-pop lovers who also want to dance. Thus K-Pop-Up was born and Fran has been teaching k-pop dance ever since! As k-pop has become such a universal phenomenon, it is Fran’s goal to always teach k-pop in a welcoming and inclusive way that is friendly to people of all dance levels. In addition to teaching K-pop around the San Francisco Bay Area, Fran is also a local drag performer known as Sassi Fran. Sassi Fran incorporates k-pop into many of her drag performances and hosts a quarterly Queer K-pop Dance Party/drag show to continue spreading the joys of k-pop music and dance.
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In-Studio Classes at Rae Studios
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