Zumba® Instructor, West African Dance Teacher, Student,  Performer

I am an accomplished teacher/dancer/choreographer with a 30+ year dance background.  I currently teach and perform in the metropolitan area.    In addition, I have used my dance background to become licensed as a Zumba Instructor.

Currently Instructing in Zumba and/or West African Dance:

Studio Yoga, Madison, NJ

Summit YMCA, Summit, NJ

Burgdorff Cultrual Center, Maplewood, NJ

Health Fitness - Novartis- East Hanover, NJ

Past Employers:

Connection for Women and Families, Summit, NJ

Bodies in Motion, Maplewood, NJ

JCC, West Orange, NJ

Adult School of Maplewood/South Orange

Montclair Adult School

Maplewood South Orange Adult School

Ruff Ryders to the Rescue Summer Camp

Can Do Fitness Club

PaperMill  Children’s Summer Program

Performances:

Paper Mill Playhouse

NJ Youth Correctional Facility

Worthington School

Various local churches, clubs

Licensed Zumba Instructor

Certified Red Cross CPR and AED Adult

Dance:  M’bemba Bangoura, Yewande Kelly Johnson, Mama Ya, Karen Love, , Ya’ Ya Kamate, Esther Walker Grant, Michael Marcus, Candace Hundley Kamate

References:

Tracy Wanamaker, Group Fitness Director Summit Y,

Teresa Gallagher, Studio Yoga,

Lara Gonzalez, Fellow teacher

Leslie Sabin, Director Ruff Ryders Foundation,

Yewande Johnson, African Dance Teacher/Performer