Dance With Allison
Allison Haley teaches dance and performs locally in Santa Cruz, California. One of her first loves, dance remains a huge part of her life thanks to the abundance of it offered in Santa Cruz. She teaches Tropical Fusion Dance Fitness and Zumba classes, and feels passionate about sharing the empowerment, expression, community, and mind-body connection that dance provides.
Weekly Classes
TROPICAL FUSION DANCE
FRIDAYS @ 9:15 am at Pleasure Point Yoga & Dance
Class includes a warmup, cardio dance,
easy-to-learn choreography, and cool down.
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OUTDOOR DANCE FITNESS POP UPS
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AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE WORKSHOPS / PARTIES!
BIO
For over 15 years Allison has studied cultural dance forms from Brazil, the Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, and West Africa. She has studied Samba and Afro-Brazilian dance intensively with Marsea Marquis, Dhanda DaHora, Rosangela Silvestre, Vera Passos, Alvaro Reys, Marcelo Chocolate and many more master teachers from Brazil. Other styles she has studied are Cuban Salsa and Rhumba, Calypso and Soca from Trinidad, Afro-Haitian, West African, Puerto Rican Bomba, Mexican Folkloric dance, Jamaican Dancehall, Afrobeats.
Allison has a foundation as a ballerina, starting at the age of three and continuing through her high school years, where she performed on pointe with the Portsmouth School of Ballet. She held many lead roles in Broadway-style theater productions and ballet performances from K-12, and was in Band and Chorus during her school years as well.
The gallery below includes a few of the performances she’s been honored to be a part of, some of which she helped produce and promote.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY & GALLERY
“Together Apart” Music Video by Papiba & Friends 2020
Raizes do Brazil Drum Troupe: Opening for Pierre Onassis of Olodum 2019
Marsea Marquis Celebration of 30 years of Dance of Brazil, ‘So Danco Samba’ & ‘E Pra Valer’ 2019
Samba No Pé Performance at Raizes do Brazil Capoeria Studio, directed by Alvaro Reys 2017
Tracing Diasporas with Verra Pasos 2018, ‘Oxum’ & ‘So Danco Samba’
San Francisco Carnival Parade: Ginga Brazil / BrasArte 2018
Ebb & Flow Festival: ‘Oxum’ Afro Brazilian dance by Agua Doce Dance Company 2018
Ebb & Flow Festival: Samba Cruz Drum Troupe 2017
Santa Cruz National Dance Week: Performing with Dance of Brazil & Marsea Marquis
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014‘Prime Movers’ Dance Retrospective: Samba Finale at Cabrillo College 2014
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center: Ethnic Dance Festival: Dance of Brazil 2014
Derby Girls Halftime Show: ‘Tropicalismo Latin Dance & Samba’ 2014
‘Oracle’ Afro-Brazilian Dance Show Directed by Rosangela Silvestre 2013
‘Sambarét: Cabarét, Brazilian Style’ (Co-Producer & Performer) 2012
Musical Theater & Ballet (various lead and supporting roles): Oliver, The Wizard of Oz, Annie Get Your Gun, Tom Sawyer, Alice in Wonderland, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, The Nutcracker Ballet, Fiddler on the Roof, Standing Room Only, Bye Bye Birdie
