2025 Instructors

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Shani Brown grew up in Southern California and learned Balboa dancing with original legends in the 1990s. She brings a brilliant diagnostic mind along with her profound love of social dancing.

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Jennifer Lee is a powerhouse of musicality and technique who has won a whole lot of contests. She brings joy to everything she does.

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Teni Lopez-Cardenas also wins lots of things when she is not busy raising two adorable twins. She is a master of matching wildly different partners while expressing her own unmistakeable style.

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Sylvia Sykes is the reason we are all dancing Balboa today. She learned directly from original legends of Southern California and travels the world teaching those lessons. She was a badass before you were born.