Instructor Bio

Dr. Jeanne-Marie Hughes has been teaching at ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ since 1989. Courses taught include: Modern Dance; Jazz Dance; Ballet; Ballroom Dance; Salsa and Latin American Dances; International Folk Dance; European Folk Dance; ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ Dance Repertory Company, Dance Production (Modern, Ballroom, Folk, Salsa); Dance History; Analysis of Folk, Social and Ballroom Dance; Teaching Movement (A lecture class for future dance, PE, and yoga teachers); all levels of Yoga; Intensive Yoga; Yoga Movement; Aerobics; Resistance Training; and, Body Sculpting.

For over 29 years, Jeanne ("Jeannie") has organized and hosted several multicultural dance performances, parties, workshops, and festivals each year at ÃÈ·­µ¼º½. Examples of these events include: The Blossom International Folk Dance Festival; The San Francisco Free Folk Festival; The SF Kolo Dance Festival; AXIS Dance Company Workshop and Performance; Colombian Ethnic Dance Workshops; Romanian Dance Workshops; Alaskan Dance Workshop; Dances for All Ages Workshops; and, Filipino Dance Workshop. Each semester, for over 25 years, she has produced the ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ Salsa and/or Ballroom Dance Party, and, the ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ Low-Tech Dance Performance, an informal performance featuring dance work by ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ faculty, students, and alum. Jeanne directed Working, an ongoing dance performance series presenting the work of ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ dance students, alum, and other local choreographers. She was the Faculty Advisor of Shall We Dance, a ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ partner social dance club and the Latin and Social Dance Club.