Suzi Tipa

Suzi Myers Tipa has had an extensive career in dance and fitness.  Currently a full-time Zumba instructor in Westchester, NewYork, Suzi began her dance career with the Windemere Ballet Theatre in Queens. Her passion for dance lead her to study many international folk dance styles with experts from around the world, including Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cumbia, African, Irish Step, Scottish Highland, Hawaiian hula, Russian, Mexican, Italian, Appalachian clogging, Swing, Chinese, and Eastern European.  As a member of AllNations Dance Company, she traveled to such exotic locations as Central and South America, Eastern Europe, China, and Brooklyn sharing a message of global understanding through the arts.

Suzi is co-founder and Company Manager of World Dance Theatre, a not-for-profit professional dance company, and she and her colleagues strive to bring the beauty of international dance and music to a wider audience.  With a philosophy that the arts are what we have in common with people throughout the world, World Dance Theatre transcends racial and national barriers through performances and workshops.

Suzi currently conducts curriculum-based international dance residencies in the New York City school system through World Dance Theatre.  She has taught acting and improv for the SUNY Purchase Youth Theatre Program and Continuing Education Department, and for the Music Conservatory of Westchester.  She has stage-managed and worked backstage at such Off-Broadway theatres as the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. She has choreographed a number of regional theatre productions, and has been a guest teacher for companies throughout New York City. She has written, produced and performed sketch comedy, and currently dances with Pat Cannon's Foot and Fiddle Dance Company.

Her current passion is fitness through dance, so she embraces Zumba as a fun way for people to get fit.  She is ACE-certified in Group Fitness and conducts classes throughout Westchester in Zumba and other toning styles.