Spring 2025 Class Schedule 🎉

Thank you for a wonderful winter season!

As we move into our new season, we hope to cultivate more relationships between our students and teachers and continue to offer a supportive and safe environment for those on their dance journeys. Here's to the Spring season! 🎉

Introducing our Spring 2025 schedule starting April 1st. The new quarter will feature 70+ classes and 35+ instructors across 4 locations in San Francisco with classes daily! We're thrilled to bring our students an updated schedule featuring dynamic instructors throughout the Bay Area, as well as expanding our Neighborhood Programs to two additional location. We now offer FREE classes at UN Plaza, Union Square and Mission Rock, giving everyone more opportunities to dance and train. Check out our amazing instructors and support a local small business as we move into our spring season!

Thank you to our past instructors who will no longer be teaching with us. We at Rae Studios always value our instructors and honor their growth as they continue to transition in life. To our returning veterans and new teachers starting April 1st 2025, we are excited to start another season celebrating and highlighting your craft and dedication.

Let's continue to support our local teachers this year by showing up ready to create new and memorable experiences. Just a reminder, every little action goes a long way. Bring a friend to class, write a testimonial, share your experience on your social channel or just tell an instructor about your gratitude. Most importantly, enjoy yourself. Rae Studios is here to build, educate and create.

Now, let's welcome to our Spring 2025 Instructor Roster! ❤

In-Studio Class Schedule | Effective Apr. 1st - Jun. 30th

OUR Q2, 2025 SCHEDULE IS HERE! OVER 35+ INSTRUCTORS & 70+ CLASSES 

UN Plaza Class Schedule | Effective Apr. 1st - Jun. 30th

OUR Q2, 2025 SCHEDULE IS HERE! OVER 35+ INSTRUCTORS & 70+ CLASSES 

🎉 INTRODUCING OUR NEW/RETURNING INSTRUCTORS STARTING APRIL 2025🎉

Tiana Hester (she/her)

Hip Hop [Beg] | Mondays, 5:00pm (at UN Plaza)

Industry Hip Hop [Int/Adv] | Mondays, 7:45pm (In-Studio)

@tianahester

It looks like you may have a little dancer” - as her mother would tell the story about what the doctor said during her ultra sound. TiAna- in the womb, with the heel of her foot in her mouth, was literally born to dance. In just the small city of Antioch, California at Delta Ballet Academy, TiAna started training recreationally at just eight years old in Hip Hop with LaTonya Watts. She then started training in ballet, as it became a requirement for her to continue with a competitive team. Her ballet teacher expressed to her mother, that there was no way it was her first time training in that style.

It was then that she knew dance was not just a “talent” that she had picked up, but a Gift. TiAna continued to expand her training in other styles such as jazz, lyrical, and contemporary. At the age of twelve, she started competing and traveling as a dancer. She continue to pursue her career through out high school, and started teaching dance once she graduated, in 2008.

In 2012, TiAna moved to New York City to pursue her dance career. She grew tremendously, training at studios like Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey, PeriDance Center, and Brickhouse NYC. She has worked with well known artists; Sevyn Streeter, Justine Skye, Nikki Tino, Demi Grace, and more. TiAna has Choreographed, danced backup, and hosted classes for music labels like Atlantic Records, and Def Jam. While pursuing her dance career, she picked up a love for fitness and established a name for herself as a fitness instructor. TiAna “Your favorite instructor” Hester has been featured in the New York Times, New York Post, Shape Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar as #4 of the Top 20 Fitness Instructors of New York. In 2019, she brought her expertise back home and has continued to learn and teach as a professional dancer. TiAna is grateful to have trained under so many well known choreographers from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York such as, Corey Action, Allen Frias, Matthew J. Day, Denzel Chisholm, Jerry “curls” Paulino, Antonio “Tony” Jefferson, and more! She has taught and choreographed for over 15 dance studios, and hopes to be able to continue move with purpose, on purpose, and share her visions with the world.

Annie Lester

Heels [Int/Adv]

Mondays, 6:30pm (In-Studio)

@anniegmovement

Annie (she/her) was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, where she trained in classical ballet, jazz, modern, and other styles from the age of 5. She trained in both the classical ballet conservatory (Washington Ballet, summers at Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theater) and the competition dance (placing with her team at NYCDA, NUVO, Headliners, and more) spaces until moving to Pittsburgh for her senior year of high school to attend Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s Hugh School Full Time Program. In 2020, she was accepted to the trainee program with Alonzo King LINES Ballet here in San Francisco, completing her first year in the pandemic via Zoom, and finally moving to the Bay in 2021 to complete her second and final year. 

In 2021, her performing career ended prematurely due to a spinal injury. After a short break from dance, she took a job this January at San Francisco High School of the Arts teaching ballet, contemporary, and jazz to both the full-time high schoolers and Young Artists Program. She also enjoys teaching jazz funk, heels, and other styles and is excited to start her journey with RAE studios! She plans to continue learning and growing as a dance instructor. 

You can follow her on Instagram @anniegmovement!

Carmen Ye (she/her)

Zumba (All Levels)

Wednesdays | 5:00pm (at UN Plaza)

Thursdays | 5:30pm (In-Studio)

Carmen (she/her) grew up in San Francisco and has lived a little bit everywhere in the last 10 years - Hong Kong, Washington DC, Ann Arbor, and St Louis. She was a Zumba student for many years before becoming certified to teach in 2019. In the middle of mental health challenges in graduate school, dance fitness and movement became a reliable source of comfort and positivity. Carmen hopes to bring that same joy of dance to others with a high-impact style, incorporating traditional Latin rhythms with soca, hip hop, and pop. 

Carmen has traveled to 41 countries, has spent many years becoming fluent in Spanish and her native Cantonese, and the love of her life is her dog, Leche.

Darian Gemora (he/they)

Lyrical Hip Hop [Int/Adv]

Wednesdays, 7:45pm (In-Studio)

@dariananthony_

Darian is a Bay Area native growing up in the ‘fog’ since he was born. He started his dance career sophomore year of high school being personally recruited into Funk Beyond Control a hip hop team led by Darnell Carroll. He has trained with So You Think You Can Dance award winning choreographers Phoenix and Pharside Jennings while on the youth team of Academy of Villains. Darian is an avid choreographer for social change and has participated in many Mental Health Awareness performances with Str8jacket for the San Mateo County. During his time in high school he was a lead in his school plays as well as Director of Dance for the rally committee. His training started with Hip Hop but he later dabbled in Contemporary, Lyrical, and Jazz Funk. Darian recently finished back up dancing for the TNT Boys World Tour in 2019 while working on his marketing degree at SF State. His goal is to inspire his students to gain more confidence and help them tell their own stories through dance. If you could sum him up in a few words it would be funny, quirky, and creative.

Matt Berry (they/them) Contemporary [Intermediate] Thursdays, 7:45pm (In-Studio) @_mattbarry_

Matt Barry (They/Them) is a queer multidisciplinary freelance dance artist and educator based in the Bay Area. Interested in embodiment and authenticity, they play with movement, sound, and drag, to craft inherently queer and thematically enriched worlds that speak to the larger human experience. They are a graduate from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program and had the opportunity to collaborate with choreographers such as Chuck Wilt, Kayla Farrish, Chafin Seymour, Natasha Adorlee, Alex Ketley, Maurya Kerr, David Harvey, Greg Dawson, Babatunji Johnson, and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison. Currently Matt is an artist and collaborator with UNA productions and Detour Productions. 

Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Matt spent years teaching at various institutions around their hometown of Orlando, FL. With foundations in hip hop, ballet, and contemporary dance, their artistic practice and teaching style is based in groove, sensation, and self exploration. As a teacher, Matt focuses on creating an environment for students to come as they are, grow, and express themselves authentically. The overall goal is to cultivate a safe space for everyone and leave them with tools to grow as artists and individuals.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/_mattbarry_/

Nora Aguayo (she/her)

Zumba [All Levels]

Sundays, 11:00am (at UN Plaza)

@nora.bailezumba

Nora Aguayo has been teaching for about five years now, specializing in Zumba and Dance Cardio formats. She blends various dance styles with a Latin kick to create a diverse and fun workout. There is no limit to what you can do—Motiving and creating your flow while dancing is her goal.

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