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Small Fry Dance Club Staff
Our staff is highly qualified in both dance and early childhood development. Our staff has been teaching
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Jana Chapeton - Owner/Director
During her 18 years of training Jana has studied jazz, tap, hip hop, Afro - Haitian, Dunham technique, and choreography. Jana has been most influenced by Janel Tomblin - Brown, Ehud and Daynee Krauss, Susan Whipp, Alicia Pierce, and Kimberly Iniguez. In May of 2002 she completed her Bachelor's degree in dance at San Francisco State University. Jana loves working with beginning level students and preschool dancers. She is most motivated to help students discover dance and movement.
Jana has been teaching through out the bay area since 1998. Some of her previous performance and Choreography highlights include Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre Group, Anything Goes, It's a Wrap with Guggenheim Entertainment, Speaking of Dance and He Said She Said with Visual Rhythm Dance Company, Rocky Horror Show with City Lights Theatre Company, Wholeness with Bliss Dance Company, and Paramount Great America's Celebration Parade.
Carlos Chapeton - Marketing Director
Carlos is Jana's husband. Carlos started as a web/graphic designer in 2001. He has been designing in some capacity ever since. In 2005 he was hired as a 3D game artist for a startup company in Silicon Valley. He was there for 4 years. In mid 2009 Carlos began to work more with Jana in helping to expand Small Fry and assisting with day to day operations.
Carlos designs and maintains our website and designed our logo, marketing materials and all of our patches! Currently Carlos is teaching classes at Cañada College and is continuing to assist with Small Fry as we continue to grow our programs into new regions of the Bay Area. Anytime Jana doesn't answer the office line you are probably speaking with Carlos, feel free to say hello!
Amanda Ruiz - Teacher
Dancing since a young age, Amanda has studied jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop, modern, lyrical, and acrobatics. She received the majority of her training with Suzanne Dancers. While attending Independence High School in San Jose, Amanda performed with the dance company Independence, as well as the varsity song team.
She has recently graduated from SFSU with a BA in dance and liberal studies. She hopes to continue her education, work with children, dance as much as possible, and one day follow in her parent's foot steps and open a dance studio of her own.
Rosemary Robertson - Teacher
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she discovered movement at an early age, beginning gymnastics at the age of 2. She continued on to study tap, jazz, modern, ballet, circus arts, color guard, and rhythmic gymnastics, winning several awards for her solo and group performances and choreographic work.
She graduated from University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) with a BFA in Dance in 2008. At UIUC, as well as working with several internationally known performers and choreographers, Rosemary began working with Kate Kuper, a dance professional well-known for her work with elementary schools and children in Chicago. It was under Kate's wing that Rosemary discovered creative dance for children. Her teaching uses developmentally appropriate movement games to explore dance concepts while developing balance, gross motor skills, creativity, spatial awareness, and interpersonal relationships.
In addition to her work with children at Small Fry Dance Club, Rosemary works with a non-profit organization using creative dance as a way to help families build stronger relationships.
Britney Bindel- Teacher
Britney began dancing tap, jazz and ballet at the age of five, in New Mexico. In middle school, her dance evoloution expanded to modern and interpretive classes. After a move to Texas, high school brought her to the stage with musical theater, while maintaining a strong focus on ballet at the Ballet San Antonio Academy. She has performed and choreographed "Annie, Get Your Gun," "The Music Man," "Hello Dolly," and "Anything Goes," In 2002, she toured Poland as a singer, choreographer, dancer and dance teacher. After moving to California, she continued to study dance in college, under Janel Tomblin-Brown and Jana Morris.
She has taught ballet and creative movement at Mission Dance in Fremont, as well as jazz, ballet and interpretive dance at Harbor Light Assembly of God. Her strong body awareness and understanding of kinesiology as a dancer, set her up in 2005 for a successful carreer as a massage therapist. Now, as a mother of a three year old son, she understands the important and effective role dance plays in getting little ones to make synaptic connections by familiarizing a child with their body and how it can move, while providing creative outlets for all his or her energy. Britney believes that once a child is comfortable in their own skin, the confidence gained therein reaches far into adulthood.