Adam Dekavallas
Owner of Dance FX Studios. Bio coming soon.
Rachel Hirsch
Bio coming soon.
Amy Andrews
Belly Dancing Bio
Amy received her early ballet training in Bavaria, Germany. She continued with professional training under the direction of Josephine Schwartz, Bess Saylor, Jon Rodriguez, Stuart Sebastian and Suzanne Farrell at The Dayton Ballet Company. Amy choreographed and performed for Wittenberg University’s Dance Theatre Troupe under the direction of Shih-ming Li. While at University in Beijing, Amy studied classical Chinese dance before learning classical Khmer forms and traditional folk styles in Thailand. More recently, she performs regularly in the Phoenix area at restaurants, clubs, festivals, art exhibits and Middle Eastern Haflas. Amy has taken up the study of Raks Sharqi, Middle Eastern Belly Dance, and has performed for audiences in Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Italy and Thailand. She is known for her athletic and exuberant dance style.
Yoga Bio
A devoted student of yoga, Amy received her 200 hour yoga teacher training under the direction of Jeff Martens and Maredith Estrada at Inner Vision Yoga in Chandler in 2008. With a background in dance, synchronized swimming and East Asian Studies, yoga has been a natural progression in her search for greater physical strength, flexibility, relaxation and happiness. Her combined love of dance and “flying” continues to take her deeper into the practice of prana flow yoga.
Leah Roman
Leah Roman, Hip Hop extraordinaire, has been teaching for almost 5 years in the Valley of the Sun. She is the captain of several Hip Hop crews in the area including Broken Toyz and is known for being a “butt kicking” teacher who is committed to making her students great dancers while whipping their bodies into shape at the same time. For an AMAZING workout that is packed with FUN, join Leah for any of her 3 classes at Dance FX including “Flirty” Hip Hop (for ladies only)on Tuesdays and beginner and intermediate Hip Hop on Thursdays. Check the calendar for details on attire and class times.
Suzanne Rodriguez Stemmerman
Suzanne was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. She relocated to Phoenix about 3 years ago. She’s been dancing since she was 8 years old, was a member of her dance squad in high school and started teaching dance fitness after college. She discovered Zumba when she moved to Phoenix and was hooked with the first class. Raised a “Cubanita” I guess you can say it’s in her blood. Zumba is an amazing form of dance and exercise. She feels so fortunate to have found it and to share it with anyone and everyone who wants to join the party!
Arden Riordan
Arden has been teaching yoga since 2000. Her personal goal as a yoga teacher is to help students to connect with their true self, to help them express their truth, and to help people to feel empowered to heal themselves. Arden sees yoga as a therapeutic tool for healing specific issues in life including physical, emotional, mental, financial, interpersonal, and even ancestral and karmic issues by removing old energy patterns stored in the body. Arden encourages students to honor and respect the messages they receive from their intuition and their bodies. Arden is a certified in Kundalini yoga, and she is the
co-founder of Neurogenic Yoga. She is a practitioner of Emotional Freedom Technique and Trauma Release Exercises.
Frankie Valenzuela
Frankie has been formally dancing since the young age of five. In his teen and early adult years, he got into the break dancing craze and at the same time was lucky to be exposed to many different forms of dance such as jazz, salsa, merengue, Argentine tango. To this day, you can be sure that if there is a beat in the air Frankie is dancing to it.
While on a treadmill at a local gym, Frankie glanced into the group exercise room and saw what looked like salsa dancing. That’s how he found Zumba and from that moment he was hooked! Then he took the next step and began teaching Zumba. It has been the most rewarding time in his life because now he is able to share his passion for music and dance with his students. Through Zumba you can make new friends, relieve stress from a hard day’s work, or meet your fitness goals. Whatever your reason for taking a Zumba class, you will find it is more than just music and dance it is therapy for the mind, body and soul! See you in class!
Robert Gardner
Robert Gardner began his Shao-Lin training 1996 at the Chinese Shao-Lin Centers and is the only one in the Phoenix area certified to teach Shao-Lin Kung-Fu by a Shao-Lin Grandmaster. Sifu Robert attained the rank of 3rd Degree Black Belt in 2007 and continues to train and advance toward 4th Degree Black Belt with new, more complex, and more challenging material! His goal is to pass on the knowledge, enthusiasm, and love of the Shao-Lin art the way it is presented to him by Elder Masters David and Sharon Soard of Denver, Colorado, and Grandmaster Sin Kwang Thé himself!