Hips 'n Dips

Class Description

Instructor: Champagne Sugar Mondays (Starting 2/23) 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM $20 Start your week whinin, waist working, twerking, ticking, popping, bouncing, shaking, jiggling, isolating, bumping, grinding, gyrating, and maybe even scrubbing the ground. Find the rhythm, play with your personality, and explore your joy chakra with a group of fun and safe dancers! Music will range from island riddims, Bay Area slappers, Latin melodies, afrobeats, soul, funk,hip hop, New York 808s and some good ol’ dirty south hi-hats. Heels optional, sass mandatory. Champagne Sugar grew up dancing in the Mojave Desert; performing, teaching and choreographing competitively. Her BA in Theatre and Dance cum laude from Sacramento State University, specializing in Afro-Caribbean and Dunham Technique included training with: ACDF, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Rene Harris Dance company, Katherine Dunham Seminars, International Association of Black Dance (IABD), Evidence/Ron K. Brown, Alvin Ailey school, nicholasleichterdancecompany, & CalArts innerspark. She also was a gogo dancer in the Latin club circuit of the Bay Area. New York City training included masters Baba Richard Gonzales, Denys La Mora Perez, Baba Chuck Davis, Nadia Dieudonné, Jean-Sebastian, Roseangela Sylvestre, Madame Penny Godboldo & Ms. Rachelle Tervanier. Champagne performed, taught and choreographed with Sacramento/Black Art of Dance (S/BAD) as a company member, AfroCaribbean Soul Collective at SXSW, and rumba group Quimbata based in Austin, Texas; as Shauna S. Segler. She has been a guest instructor with ACDF Phoenix & CSUS. With a MA in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University Shauna taught Deaf youth for 10 years, she now gets to travel as a dance artist, nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter, and a proud performing member of Egbe Sekere Atlanta. Champagne continues to spread her bubbly personality, among other things, across the stage with the Atlanta Burlesque Academy, keep an eye out for upcoming performances!