Instructors
Irma Sirvinskaite
Irma is Hip Hop/Vogue Teacher at AA Studio.
Irma or by her dance name, Irmana, was born and raised in a tiny European country called Lithuania. She started her dance career in a prominent dance company AURA Theatre located in Kaunas, Lithuania. Irma mainly teaches hip hop. She started dancing hip hop since 2008. Her first hip hop teacher was Clarence Ford, the pioneer of Hip Hop in Canada. She learnt hip hop also from the hip hop dance company and the streets. She has performed hip hop pieces at various events. She taught hip hop for over 10 years including competitive dance. She has been working with various artists in Los Angeles such as Carly and The Universe.
Join her Hip Hop and vogue classes on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. You can also book private hip hop classes with her.
Honey Almazar
Honey Almazar ballet teacher at AA Studio.
Honey Almazar is a British ballet dancer is a dancer. Since arriving in US, Honey built a career dancing as soloist/principal with companies such as Sinay Ballet, State Street Ballet, National Ballet to name a few for 26 years.
Honey started teaching at "A Place Called Home". After that she taught for Westside Ballet in 2004 and 2005, and during the same time period she was teaching at Dance East in UK. She was recognized for her teaching abilities. In 2006, she was asked to be artistic coach for a new ballet company SMCB. She became a principal dancer and also artistic director there. In this capacity, Honey led the company's tour in Southern California, New York and San Francisco.
Honey also worked as guest artist for Sarah Berges Dance, where she worked on her modern background. She got great reviews for her role in "Aries". More recently, she took a course in proprioception, which added to her unique ability to pinpoint dancers areas of weakness and help to strengthen them, while making them go beyond their comfort zone to reach their true dancing capabilities and artistry. If one likes enough to dance then they will.
Honey also opened her own ballet company SCBT, Season Contemporary Ballet Theatre in Santa Monica. She is an artistic director at this company.
Honey teaches Mondays, Saturdays and Sundays. She also teaches private ballet classes.
Christopher C. Fishburne
Contemporary teacher at AA Studio.
Christopher grew up in NYC and trained at the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, after which, he attended Five Towns College as a vocal jazz major. Wanting something more out of his education he eventually transferred to the University at Buffalo, for a Musical Theatre Major and a Dance Minor Degree. While attending UB, Christopher played the roles of "Richie" (A Chorus Line) and "Ken" (Smokey Joe's Cafe) at Western New York's Premier Destination for Music, "Artpark".
Upon graduation from UB, he attended "The Ailey School" on Fellowship for 2 years, going on to dance for ballet and contemporary companies in NYC, Chicago, and Los Angeles as a freelance artist. He danced for 2 years in Los Angeles with "Lula Washington Dance Theatre".
After he returned to NYC to play “Paul” in Westchester Broadway Theatre's production "Kiss Me, Kate”.
In his time back in New York City, Christopher was blessed with the amazing opportunity to sing backing vocals on Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, GMA, and the View with UK band Bastille and emerging artist, Sam Smith. He also appeared on "The Today Show" with Finnish artist, Isac Elliot while singing at the same time backgrounds for indie artists in NYC (Aaron Paul, Camille Trust, Tony Haris) before making his way back to LA to play a “Storyteller” in 3-D Theatricals production of “Once on This Island”.
In June of 2021 he was seen on “America’s Got Talent” as a part of the boy band “The Other Direction” playing the character of “Devyn” and most recently played the role of "Michael" in Up Next's production of "Tick Tick, Boom!"
Christopher in his Contemporary Class brings a fusion of movement styles to the forefront. Being trained in techniques of Horton, Graham, and classic Jazz, he also acquired the knowledge and qualities present in other styles such as Hip/Hop, Street Jazz, Musical Theatre, African, Competition Jazz, Fall/Recovery. In this class, students will find a balance between technique, strength, musicality, fluidity, and performance. Students should be ready to work hard!
Jessica Mccready
Jessica teaches (EM)Ocean class at AA Studio.
She extremely passionate about her class. She believes that the benefits of dance are countless and should be accessible to everyone. She wants her students to have fun, connect with their inner child, move stagnant energy, and improve their confidence.
Susanna Wilkins
Susanna teaches Soundbath class at AA Studio.
Susanna has lived in Los Angeles for over twenty years. After eight years of teaching Science for the LA Unified School District, she developed a passion for a trauma informed approach to education and started her classes with grounded breathing exercises. During the pandemic she purchased her first set of sound bowls as a way to reduce anxiety and stress. Soon after, she learned Reiki healing and started having small collective sound baths for friends and family. Susanna has continued to learn more and expand her sound baths by using somatic training, trauma informed practices, visualizations, and intention setting. Susanna's ultimate goal is to continue to cultivate a safe space for people of all ages to be present with their bodies, self heal, release stagnant emotions, and at the very least, relax.
In the Soundbath Class, students will bring themselves back to present with an immersive fourty five minute sound bath. They will be bathed in the sounds of 432 hz crystal sound bowls, chimes, ocean drums and other instruments. These instruments emit frequencies that can bring our minds to a relaxed or Theta state. Once in a state of relaxation, sound therapy has been shown to reduce symptoms like anxiety, brain fog, and physical pain. Sound therapy is accessible to all ages as one needs only to lay down and listen during the sound bath. Class includes intention setting, grounding, and hands on reiki adjustments if one feels called.
Susanna offers private sound and reiki healing, private sound baths, and sound baths in a group or corporate setting. She is trained in sound healing, as well as an attuned reiki practitioner. She also is trauma informed and somatically trained through SE International. You can reach out to her at innerstatechange@gmail.com.