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Born and raised in Southern California , Leann has trained extensively in all forms of dance throughout the LA and Orange County areas. She holds a BA in Dance with honors from UC Riverside, where she received a Chancellor ’s Scholarship. Leann has performed extensively with numerous companies including Rhapsody in Taps, Jazz Spectrum Dance Company, and Bare Dance Company along with working in video and television. Leann is the Artistic Director of the Jimmie DeFore Dance Center , Co-Director of Pulse, and is on faculty at Chapman University . “Dance is your Pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It is the rhythm in which we live. It ’s the expression of time, music, and movement in happiness, joy, sadness, and frustration ” “Dance needs no language … ” “ …it ’s poetry in silence. ” Sebastian Arango has been moving and moved by music ever since he can remember. Starting off as a figure skater at the age of 10, going on to compete at the regional and national level, and then eventually making his way back to dance in search of an understanding of all movements in relationship to music. This search lead him here to Defore studio where he received a scholarship during the 2006 pulse term and was rigorously immersed in many dance & teaching styles.Shortly then after he was asked to be a part of Rhetoracle Dance Company which was an unexpected yet thrilling opportunity for him. Also since finishing scholarship Sebastian has taken the opportunity to expand his training by taking from numerous teachers and classes from all around the southern California area. In gratitude to all his wonderful teachers and mentors he hopes to bring his students the beauty, determination and strength they brought him. He feels very honored to be teaching at Defore Dance and his goal is for his students to find the passions we have inside and be able to express and communicate that with our bodies.

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