Meet Our Instructors
Irma Sirvinskaite
Irma is Hip Hop/Vogue Teacher at AA Dance 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 Fridays. You can also book private hip hop classes with her.
Honey Almazar
Honey Almazar ballet teacher at AA Dance 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.
Terrance
Bio coming soon!
Angie Shriner
Angie Shriner is a performer & dance fitness professional. She has worked in Chicago & NY theatre, TV, & film for over a decade—choreographing and dancing in music videos featured in ROLLING STONE and Billboard magazines. Angie has led classes in Chicago at Millennium Park, Gallagher Way at Wrigley Field, Double Door, Daley Plaza, and at her home base of 15 years Chicago’s Cheetah Gym. Angie is is one of the nation’s first WERQ fitness instructors, and one of the original choreographers for the WERQ brand.
Alexia Fouch
Bio coming up!