Happy Thursday San Diego Dancers! For many of us, we are starting to go back to our regular schedules with school and work this week and getting more organized with our dance classes. Things are in session and we're ready to soak up the learning. Sometimes, you gotta take a break from the hustle and bustle and let your imagination wander and we are here to help! If you've been following the BLOG for a little while now or just jumping in, we are running a San Diego Tap Series and this Thursday we are posting the B O S S from one of our favorite tap studios in town: Larisa Hall of Tap Fever in P ..read more

Happy Monday San Diego Dancers! We are so excited to start implementing more themes into the week to have things to look forward to as growing dancers. We are equally as excited to begin building up our Class EXPERIENCE section! That being said, today is officially Mindful Motivation Monday (what does that even mean?) It means we are asking ourselves, "what truly motivates my heart this week?" This Monday we are motivated by F U N To kick off the fun, we decided to relive last Sunday's class held by choreographer and teacher on the rise, Jorden Alhashim's SLAY IN STILETTOS (also known as SIS ..read more

[Don't miss out on the fun: Press Play] Hey San Diego Dancers! What a year 2019 has been for our community. Heels classes are all the rage while more and more teachers are incorporating a camera man into their classes to highlight their students. Instructors that train in LA are beginning to bring in masterclasses from the Los Angeles Masters themselves all while maintaining the integrity of the San Diego Dance Scene. Pop-up classes are on the rise helping new choreographers get their name out there to help us grow in our craft, and EVEN a San Diego Dance Agency has been created! We as a commu ..read more

Tap Series Part I Hey San Diego Dancers! Welcome to the Tap Series. We are so excited to take it back to the R O O T S of our humble beginnings. Tap is the discipline in dance that helped us get out of our super structured ballet classes (ballet is beautiful, but can we get some variety!?), and gave us our jump into getting to learn rhythm, helping find the style which led to other forms of dance that allowed our souls to speak for who we are. During this series where advice and history of Tap is offered, we have also sniffed out the Tap Dancers of our city who are shaping and influencing our ..read more

Good Evening San Diego Dancers! Welcome to Soulful Sundays. I am so excited to announce that we were named one of the top 50 dance blogs by Feedspot! I am also excited to introduce our very first Soulful Sunday with dancer Emily Martinez. Soulful Sundays are dedicated to the ones that understand the deeper nature of dance and how it feeds our souls and with Emily being a guest star, we couldn't have asked for a more amazing, soulful human to kick-off this new addition to the blogosphere. Life has been crazy, so it was tough for Emily and I to make a connection on both sides, and then one magic ..read more

Happy Friday San Diego! The holidays are upon us and we can feel the seasons changing with this weather that has blown in. True to our weather, we can still feel the sunshine on our skin during the day, by night, however, the mist and fog along with the chill envelop the sky creating a sense of eeriness in the air making San Diego feel a bit spooky. I don't know about you guys, but I'm having a case of the Halloween blues. Are you feeling the nostalgia too? If so, I have your back. I'm here to give you one last leg of Halloween, and it couldn't have been done better than the HEAT Bellalux Ente ..read more

So here we are, Thursday's here and feeling ready for TGIFriday. Well not here in the DANCE world of San Diego! #teacherthursday‍♀️is putting a spin on the usual Q&A. Instead, we are going to let the story of choreographer and teacher Latte Dot be told through her pictures and dance videos. We sat down for a phone interview with LD as she was wrapping up a walk with her dogs who wouldn't let her sleep in on her day off (dog owners/lovers out there know the feeling), and she was still in great spirits ready to tell us a little about herself both personally and professionally. As a dancer he ..read more

Happy Thirsty Thursday San Diego DANCERS! We hope you are hydrating as you get your training in this week, but we also want you to have a little fun and XclusivelyDanceSD is here to help get the party started! Cocktails are on us We created the San Diego DANCE Lesa Green inspired cocktail- The Electric⚡️Lady Lesa Cocktail: 1 Part Cinema 2 Parts Business 3 Parts Dance Lesa is our #teacherthursday‍♀️and we are so excited to share the ingredients that concoct this Thursday's choreographer and instructor. Ingredient 1: Cinema On her dark sense of humor and the beginning of her cinema love affair ..read more

Jorden's Perspective on Choreographer Latte Dot's POP-UP H E E L S Class Hey San Diego DANCERS, Happy Wednesday! This Wednesday we decided to go in a new direction and reached out to the sparkling✨Jorden Alhashim, San Diego BASED dancer and owner of @slaystilettos (#bossbabe!) She is the pioneer of Guest STARS✨on the blog, and we cannot wait to see the what her leadership trail brings. Here we go! Handing over the mic so she can give you a little perspective on last Sunday's POP-UP class that went off brought to you by choreographer Latte Dot. By: J O R D E N ✨A L H A S H I M ☽ Elements Green ..read more

B O D Y W E E K Part III Happy Saturday San Diego DANCERS‍♀‍♂️As we wrap up B O D Y W E E K, we have our last but certainly not least body awareness ambassador, Jimi, CEO of Forever Lift Recovery. Jimi entered my health and wellness journeywhen I was searching for something to help me recover faster from my ACL injury, and with my MRI around the corner, I knew action was needed. As a dancer, I was not putting rest and recovery into my dance equation, and my injury was letting me know that was a recipe for disaster. I follow a fellow SD dancer who used to dance for the team I was on, and she ga ..read more