BELLA STUDIO Teachers


Aaron Jones

Arron Jones is a master blackbelt in jujitsu and kempo. He has studied in japan and is now teaching his dynamic style here in kansas city.

Sam Good
Professor Sapato is a graduate of the Curso de Extensao de Capoeira through the Department of Sports and Physical Education at the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil.  Sapato has instructed classes in Brazil, Hong Kong and Indonesia and is the director of Capoeira Beribazu USA.  Sapato is also the director of the Sentenced to the Arts at-risk and adjudicated youth Capoeira program.  He currently teaches Physical Education at Penn Valley College. 

Please visit www.angelfire.com/games4/capoeirakc/

Charlene Pruitt
Charlene Pruitt graduated from Morehead State University with a bachelor of music education. She specialized in strings. She teaches with extensive hands on training. She has been teaching privately ever since graduation. Charlene has made her presence known through her inner city music programs.

Michelle DeMars
m’Chelle has been performing in the Kansas City area since 2004 and teaching since 2005. Her style is a blend of Cabaret, American Tribal, Urban Goth, Classical Indian Dance, and some African Dance. She has been higly influenced stylistically by such groups as Devadasi, Doomba!, and the Indigo.

Her long-term teachers have included Christine Ferhat, Anya Lahara, and Hema Sharma. She has also, on occasion been priveledged to take lessons from Suhalia and Jamila Salimpour, Sharon Kihara, Dalia Carell, and Fat Chance Bellydance.

She is best known for her work in Massive Tassel, a triberet style bellydance troupe. Recently she started the Persian Reconnaissance Project, which also performs in the Kansas City area.

http://white-gazelle.com/

Zonte "JigSay" Warren
Please visit www.thebotb.com


Christina "Pricise" Scales

 Christina Scales, a.k.a “Precise” is a St. Louis native and has been in the Kansas City area for 11 years.  In 2001 Christina spent some time in Los Angeles where she had the opportunity to study under some well known choreographers such as Dave Scott and Shane Sparks.  Christina has been a choreographer for most of her life and recently partnered with Terry D Williams who is also a rising choreographer in the Kansas City area.  While Christina loves to perform, teaching choreography to willing and able bodies is her passion.  And they don’t call her “Precise” for nothing. . . Take her advanced Hip-Hop class and see for yourself!

Vallyn Ngyen
Vallyn Nguyen specializes in latin ballroom dancing. She is currently teaching private lessons.

Brie Blackman

For as long as I can remember music, dance and the arts have been the focal points of my life and happiness. As a little girl I took numerous dance classes including jazz, ballet and hip-hop, all of which kept me happily moving and grooving. As time moved on and I matured into a young lady, my love for music took over and I began strumming the strings of the cello. For the next 10 years it was my cello that made my heartstrings dance, but it wasn’t long until a new passion would enter my life. Around the time I was 17 I began to take art classes at my high school in Colorado. It was here that my creativity really began to expand. It took only one year of art class for me to decide that my destiny was art school, and so here I am in Kansas City. In the mean time my love for music and dance continued to thrive as I found myself inside the hoop spinning and dancing with the utmost love and passion. The moment I stepped foot into this new world of dance, the hoop pulling, twisting, dancing around me, I was immediately captivated. With a past teaching history in the arts I couldn’t help but think how much fun it would be to teach and share my passion for hoop dance with the world around me and so that is just what I’ll do. This world of creativity and dance we have created for ourselves is such a vital part of our human nature, and from it evolves the world of beauty and individuality, the coming of our selves. Our thoughts are constantly changing, and progressing. It is through this exploration of the endless cycle of art and creation that we are connected together in the CIRCLE of one and all.

With love to all,

Brie Blakeman (hoop dancer/ instructor)
http://www.kaivalyahoopdancers.com/

Janay Andrews

Janay Andrews is a woman of many trades. She has been dancing all her life and now teaches Ballet, Modern, Yoga and Pilates. She also has her own clothing company.

Please visit www.janay-a.com