Dance at the Plaza: Salsa [Beginner] with Sara Templeton

Salsa class will be moving to Tuesdays at 6:00pm starting October 1st.

Class Description:

Come explore the smoother side of commercial dance with this RnB technique class! Grounded in hip-hop style, RnB dance uses a vocabulary of smooth movements, isolations, and urban footwork to build slower tempo choreography that is feel good, look good, and full of swagger - all danced to your favorite RnB hits!

Location: All Fitness Court classes are outdoors at Civic Center / UN Plaza - 3537 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. Located between Hyde Street and Market Street.BART:Get off at Civic Center / UN Plaza Station. Exit Market and Eighth.MUNI:Buses # 5, #21, #31, #47, and #49.Metro Subway: Lines J, K, L, M, and N

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Cancellation Policy: Classes are subject to cancellation in the case that there is rain. In the case of a cancellation, classes will be postponed to a new date. Please see the MindBody app for all updates.

More information: https://www.raestudios-sf.com/un-plaza-fitness-court

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About the instructor:

Sara is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer born and raised in San Francisco. She started her professional hip-hop career at sixteen, dancing with Culture Shock S.F. and L.A. and guest performing with independent artists throughout the Bay Area. While earning her dance degree at Loyola Marymount University, Sara expanded her training to include ballet, modern / contemporary, and dunham technique, and also began a focused re-engagement with salsa and other Latin dances connected to her Puerto Rican heritage.

It was during this time that Sara truly honed in on her passion for choreography and teaching, and the ways in which the intelligence of different dance techniques could cross pollinate for the benefit of the artist. Sara has performed alongside notable hip-hop artists Allan Frias and Jesse Lee Santos, and has done commercial work with musical groups Blue Boy and Spanish Fly. Locally Sara has performed and presented work at Dance Mission Theater and ODC, and is blest to have trained with exceptional artists across disciplines including Janice Garrett (modern), Robin Dekkers (ballet), Brandi Chun (jazz funk), Pat Cruz (hip-hop) and others. Most recently, Sara choreographed the Center Repertory Company’s sold out Spring 2023 musical production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and continues to teach a variety of dance forms around the Bay Area.

Sara strongly believes in the joy of dance, and is dedicated to fostering a safe and playful space where students can work on sound dance technique while feeling motivated to grow. When Sara is not in the studio teaching or choreographing, she is experimenting with dance for film, and running her online dance merchandise store ObjectsForArts. Besides dance, Sara is an ardent, 20-year practitioner of Iyengar yoga, and a strong believer in massages and chocolate.

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