Break It Down! The Jazz Warm-Up

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Susie’s passion for dance started in the water as a synchronized swimmer growing up in Ohio. In high school in southern California, she split her love of water from her love of dance, by swimming competitively and transitioning to dance through cheer/songleading and jazz classes. At UC Berkeley, she took modern, jazz and ballroom, but too many science classes prevented her from pursuing dance as much as she wanted. She found Zohar after graduating and moving to Palo Alto and has never stopped dancing since!  She loves the lyrical styles of Jazz at Zohar based in ballet with influences of Luigi, Martha Graham, and Hama, among others. In addition to taking jazz at Zohar with Ehud, Daynee and Vivian, she took ballet at Western Ballet, and recently has started taking tap with Lee Ann Payne. She believes that everyone needs to experience creativity, art, and balance (literally and figuratively) in their lives. Dancing and the community at Zohar have provided those things along with fun, humor and many lasting friendships, as well. She has performed in numerous studio performances over the years and was a member of the Zohar Dance Company. Susie teaches the jazz warm-up Break It Down series, substitute teaches jazz classes, and serves on Zohar’s Board of Directors.