Private lesson will take place at Pasadena Dance Theatre at a time suitable to student and teacher. Student must be 11 years of age or older.

Jean-Marie Martz
Jean-Marie Martz holds a Ballet Master Diploma from the Association Francaise de Maitres de Danse Classique in Paris. During his 30-year career as a ballet instructor, he has taught at the Centre International de la Danse in Paris, Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, University of California at Riverside, and as a guest internationally. After studying ballet in France and England, he performed in Germany with the Stuttgart Ballet and the Munich Ballet. He subsequently pursued his interest in modern dance at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the Merce Cunningham Studio, and studied dance kinesiology with Dorothy Vislocky. His studies in somatic movement modalities have included the Body-Mind Centering Certification Program and the Feldenkrais Method. Presently based in Los Angeles, Martz has conducted anatomy-based ballet pedagogy workshops under the auspices of the European League of Institutes of the Arts in Portugal and Italy, and for organizations such as the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.