It's spooky season at Rae Studios and we're so excited to be bringing a week of fun, Halloween-themed classes brought to you by some of your favorite instructors! We invite all of you to come out in your best costume attire and enjoy the festivities. Our featured instructors will be teaching songs related to the holiday with fun themes for each of their classes. Check out event details below along with our featured instructors for the week!
Date/Time: Monday, October 28th - Thursday, October 31st, 2024 | Class Times Vary, see below.
Location: Rae Studios | 414 Mason St., #705, San Francisco, CA
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.Workshop Details:
Featured Instructors:
VELL RASKOVA | @vellpic
PEYTON CRAWFORD | @_peyton.craw
JESSICA RAE | @jraesf
SLEIMAN ALAHMADIEH | @sleimanalahmadieh
KIMAYA RANE | @kimakeitrane
JACKSON TRAN | @jxtrxn
JAMES JARED | @jams_jard
KAIT SKYE | @k8skye
RISA ONO | @sonrisa_ddd
KRIS SHEIN | @kris_shein_official
Date: Monday, October 28th - Thursday, October 31st
Time: Class times vary. See below
Tickets:
$25 | Single Class
FREE for Monthly Unlimited Members
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.Meet the Instructors:
Vell Raskova
Heels [Int/Adv]
10/28, 6:30pm-7:40pm
Song: Bad Guy by Billie Eilish
Vell was born in Southern Russia and immigrated to the US San Francisco in late 2022. Vell began dancing in 2000 Moscow, Russia, focusing on ballroom dancing. She dedicated 13 years of her life to this discipline. She participated in ranked competitions in Moscow as well as in international ballroom dance competitions. After ballroom dancing, Vell tried many dance styles: house, dancehall, hip-hop, vogue, and of course, she fell in love with High Heels. Vell's main life motto is "Dance and movement are life.
Class Description:
The history of dancing in heels goes back to the early 20th century, However, the teaching of the art of Heels was popularized around the globe in the early 21st century by artists such as Aisha Francis, Danielle Polanco, and Yannis Marshall. Heels is a choreographed dance class for beginner/intermediate students utilizing any type of high-heeled shoes, not necessarily character heels.
This class combines styles of dance from jazz, street jazz, hip hop and commercial dance. In this class, you will begin with a warm up focusing on strengthening the ankles, glutes, hips and core finished with a short technique portion. This class heavily focused on grounding dancers, building strong fundamentals, drills and a deeper understanding of musicality, performance and quality of movement.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.
Peyton Crawford
Jazz Funk [Int/Adv]
10/28, 7:45pm-8:55pm
Coming from her home town Sonoma, CA, Peyton Crawford is a passionate dancer who wants to share her love for dance with the world. Peyton has always been told by her family that she was dancing before she could even walk, always following the rhythm of music and the ongoing rhythm that plays in her head. She comes from a long history in the pageant world, since the age of two months, and has been on stage ever since. She has choreographed numerous routines within the industry and directed pieces. Not only has Peyton had a pageant history background, she had been attending dance conventions and classes since the age of five. She was the dance intern at her middle school and proceeded to gain experience in dancing and choreographing on her high school's dance team.
While attending Sonoma State University, Peyton had experienced numerous showcases and pieces with different processes. She has taken choreography classes all over California and gained experience in numerous styles such as hip hop, jazz, jazz-funk, heels, improv, line-dancing, and more.
When she’s not dancing she is working with horses and designing clothes for her line, Kiki. This young lady aspires to be a professional dancer and model for artists and brands. With her journey at Rae Studios she hopes to give her fellow dancers a space where they can feel comfortable and grow as individuals. A place of honor and celebration to life. Come join her in class!
Class Description:
Jazz Funk dance, a super-set of Jazz and influenced by the Hip Hop dance style. This style of dance is usually fast-paced pointed gestures and quick movements. In this class, you are expected to have basic knowledge of jazz foundations while learning quick pace combos emphasizing on feminism and intricate movements.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.
Jessica Rae
Pop Jam [Intermediate]
10/29, 6:30pm-7:40pm
Song: Hysteria by Muse
Jessica Rae is a Filipino business owner and educator around movement and entrepreneurship. She is the founder and CEO of Rae Model & Talent Agency LLC and Rae Studios, located in downtown San Francisco, California. Jessica graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Speech and Communications and a lifetime advocate of dance and the arts.
She is an energetic certified Group Fitness and Dance Instructor with a strong background in Cardio Dance, Kickboxing, MMA, and dance choreography. She promotes healthy minds and bodies through music and movement while building a strong community motivating people to move outside their comfort zone. Her certifications include: GF, AFAA, CPA and First Aid, Pound Pro, Cize Live, Barre Certified and has been seen coaching for Gap HQ, Athleta, Lorna Jane, Fitbit, William-Sonoma, Airbnb, Eventbrite, Salesforce, Facebook, Marriott, San Francisco Middle School, Dare to Bare amongst other established corporations.
Jessica currently teaches weekly classes at Equinox and Rae Studios.
Class Description:
Pop Jam originates from dance-pop, a popular music subgenre that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. It is generally uptempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable. Pop Jam is influenced by various dance styles including, Jazz Funk, Hip-Hop, and Latin dance. Students are expected to have basic fundamentals of these dance genres. This class moves at a true intermediate pace starting with a full body warm-up, and isolations into choreography. Bring knee pads for those who wish to do floor work. Floorwork and standing options are available.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.
Sleiman Alahmadieh
Hip Hop [Int/Adv]
10/29, 7:45pm-8:55pm
Sleiman(He/him) is a dancer, actor, singer, based in the Bay Area. He was born in a small town in Lebanon and moved to the states at 2 years old. He has always loved moving and felt a strong connection to music since dancing along to the Cheetah Girls and High School Musical. He has always dreamed of being a choreographer since before he new how to spell it and is so excited to bring his energy and passion to Rae Studios!
He graduated San Francisco State University this past spring with a degree in Communications and has been a working theater performer in the Bay Area for 6 years.
He believes Dance is such a beautiful art and getting to feel music with your body is such a privilege that everyone should get to experience. Because of the toxic dance environments he’s been in he’s now determined to create a space that is fun and positive for every single person in the room!
Class Description:
Hip Hop began forming as a culture and art movement in the Bronx of New York City in 1970. Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or sub-generes of hip-hop music that has evolved as part of the hip hop culture with various elements of dance styles.
In this class, you will be pushed on performance, movement quality, pace, and musicality while building on choreography retention.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.
Kimaya Rane
Bollywood Funk Choreo [Int]
10/29, 7:45pm-8:55pm
You will always find Kimaya dancing whether in class or at her work. A Seattle native, she grew up dancing all different styles including Bollywood and Kathak. She continued dancing recreationally as part of her college hip-hop team and began teaching when she moved to SF. Her absolute favorite thing about teaching has been creating Bollywood Fusion choreography that melts hip-hop movements with Bollywood flair to bring her favorite aspects of the two together. She likes to make her choreography fun and intricate but also accessible so that everyone can have fun in class!
Class Description:
Bollywood Funk is a dance style that merges traditional Bollywood signature moves with modern dance steps. Bollywood dance originated in India around Bombay (now known as Mumbi) in the 20th century and can be found in today’s signature music video and commercialized dance choreographers. This style has a contagious energy fusing Bollywood's most stylized dance moves while influencing and borrowing from other dance genres in Hip Hop, Latin, Jazz, Funk, and other Street style dances. Must have at least 8-12 months experience of basic Bollywood, Hip-Hop, or Jazz Funk fundamentals.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.
Jackson Tran
Jazz Funk [Int/Adv]
10/30, 6:30pm-7:45pm
Jackson has a diverse background in Hip-Hop, Jazz Funk, and K-Pop dancing. He is a founding member of a K-Pop dance crew based in Santa Cruz called StarChrome. Additionally, he served as a director for JK Family, a beginner-friendly choreography dance crew that blends various dance forms with a passion for Japanese, Korean, and American music. Jackson enjoys exploring new styles and merging different techniques to create choreography that transcends any single genre. Currently, he teaches choreography to students of all ages, from children to adults, at Rae Studios and other studios where he is involved. He plans to continue expanding his skills and evolving as a dance instructor who can express dance through a diverse range of styles.
Class Description:
Jazz Funk dance, a super-set of Jazz and influenced by the Hip Hop dance style. This style of dance is usually fast-paced pointed gestures and quick movements. In this class, you are expected to have basic knowledge of jazz foundations while learning quick pace combos emphasizing on feminism and intricate movements.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.
James Jared
Heels [Adv]
10/30, 7:45pm-8:55pm
Song: The Devil by The Banks
James began his dance journey as an 8-year-old in Southern California, where he trained in a variety of styles including jazz, hip-hop, ballet, and contemporary. He earned a minor degree in Modern Dance and Choreography from Princeton University in 2019, where he also danced and choreographed for diSiac Dance Company. It was during this time that James also began his heels training. Since college, James has continued his dance education in Boston and San Francisco, and more recently has taught heels classes at various studios in the Bay, including City Dance, ODC, and Rae. James has been honored to perform choreography by Chris Martin, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Robert Battle, and others.
In his heels choreography, James blends the movement vocabularies of all styles he’s trained in, with a primary focus on contemporary and jazz. Like most other heels classes, his choreography is rooted in the sensuality of the feminine form. However, James also explores how this feminine aesthetic can be in dialogue with a masculine presentation and how a more masculine aesthetic can also fuel a feminine performance. In other words, he asks the question, “How can traditionally female movement qualities demonstrate maleness, and how can traditionally male qualities emphasize womanhood?” Of course, his choreography is still full of the sexy, fun, and flirty style that you can expect from any heels class.
Class Description:
The history of dancing in heels goes back to the early 20th century, However, the teaching of the art of Heels was popularized around the globe in the early 21st century by artists such as Aisha Francis, Danielle Polanco, and Yannis Marshall. Heels is a choreographed dance class for beginner/intermediate students utilizing any type of high-heeled shoes, not necessarily character heels.
This class combines styles of dance from jazz, street jazz, hip hop and commercial dance. In this class, you will begin with a warm up focusing on strengthening the ankles, glutes, hips and core finished with a short technique portion. This class heavily focused on grounding dancers, building strong fundamentals, drills and a deeper understanding of musicality, performance and quality of movement.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.Kait Skye
Contemporary [Beg]
10/31, 5:30pm-6:25pm
Kait Skye is a Chicago-area native performer, educator, and choreographer currently living in San Francisco. Dance has always been a part of her life; she began dancing before kindergarten and her passion for dance only grew larger over the years. She continued broadening her training across all genres through college including hip hop, ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, pointe, partnering, and more. She has a long list of training and teaching experiences including Hip Hop ConnXion HQ of which she was a company member for 11 years as well as teaching and directing at Synergy Dance Academy/M3 Dance (formerly Chicago Ballet Conservatory) for the past 6 years prior to moving to San Francisco. Kait’s biggest passion within dance is teaching - she loves passing on her knowledge to other artists and helping them become the best versions of themselves, both personally and professionally.
Class Description:
Contemporary dance originated from Europe and America in the 19th and 20th century with various styles of expressive dance that combines modern, ballet, lyrical jazz and today, other forms of street dance movement. In this class you will begin center floor with a full body warm up into a beginner class combo. Your class goals are to strive to connect the mind and body through fluid dance movements.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.Risa Ono
Street Jazz [Int/Adv]
10/31, 6:30pm-7:45pm
Costume Theme: Bad*ss Pirates
Risa (she/her) is a Tokyo native dancer and represented by Rae Dance Agency. She has started dancing Hip Hop, Lock, Street Jazz since she was 16. Once she started her dancer journey, she has performed in multiple events and started making choreography for her school performances / her hip hop team in Japan as well as New York. While she was in New York, she also trained Heels from Army of Sass but also joined a bachata team led by Daniel y Desirée who is the world's most famous Bachata dance couple. The dream job she recently did was making a musical promotion PV for Dokkyo university in Japan as a director/choreographer. Her dance style and choreography focuses on musicality piece so that all of dancers are able to enjoy dancing through the music as well as express/discover themselves. She is currently teaching Hip Hop at Rae studio as well as UN Plaza.
Class Description:
Street Jazz is a high-energy fusion of jazz dance and elements of hip-hop dance. This style was shown in its early form on the sketch comedy series In Living Color. The resident dance troupe, the Fly Girls, of which Jennifer Lopez was a member, opened and closed every show with a hip-hop and jazz performance choreographed by Rosie Perez. This style of dance remains popular today, and has been used in music videos by Beyoncé, Paula Abdul, Gwen Stefani, and Janet Jackson. This class will focus on jazz technique partnered with the intricate styling that Hip-Hop dance has to offer. A vigorous warm up will focus on muscle conditioning and core strengthening.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.Kris Shein
Jazz Funk [Int/Adv]
10/31, 7:45pm-8:55pm
Song: Meow by Meovv
Costume Theme: Cats
Kristian Shein is a Jazz Funk, Hip Hop, and Contemporary Dancer. He has been dancing professionally for 12 years and passionately since 4 years. He was born in Latvia where he received his dance education. He came to America from Moscow where he worked with many dance teams and was the director of his own dance team. He has worked on television, performing with singers and night clubs. In choreography, and in working with people, he focuses on emotions. To dance with the soul and create positive, that’s his passion.
“Live this life, enjoy the moment, and do not forget to smile”
Class Description:
Jazz Funk dance, a super-set of Jazz and influenced by the Hip Hop dance style. This style of dance is usually fast-paced pointed gestures and quick movements. In this class, you are expected to have basic knowledge of jazz foundations while learning quick pace combos emphasizing on feminism and intricate movements.
Tickets: Register on your MindBody App.Follow us!
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