Aaron Alferez has been dancing since 2009. In middle school, he started out tutting and breakdancing. From 2012 to 2016, during his high school years, Keone Madrid became an inspiration to him, and he began learning dances from Keone’s dance videos from YouTube. He also found his joy for teaching dance when he taught choreography to his peers for school rallies and performances. From 2016 to 2020, attending Skyline College, he continued to teach his peers, and studied ballet, jazz, modern, and contemporary to round out his dance experience. Post college, he continues to train himself in various styles of hip hop dance such as waacking, locking, and house. He also studies filmmaking to round his knowledge as an artist, and hopes to inspire people with his dance videos.

 Nick Christman has a history in theatre/musical theatre. His credits include Once on This Island, HAIR, Chicago and In The Heights. He’s had extensive training in acting, vocalization, scene study and performance technique. Additionally, Nick Christman has experience in stage managing and directing on-stage productions. He’s excited to be joining the PCPA family and would like to thank his mother and Beyoncè for all his accomplishments.

Miss Annie (she/her) was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, where she trained in classical ballet, jazz, modern, and other styles from the age of 5. She trained in both the classical ballet conservatory (Washington Ballet, summers at Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theater) and the competition dance (placing with her team at NYCDA, NUVO, Headliners, and more) spaces until moving to Pittsburgh for her senior year of high school to attend Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s High School Full Time Program. In 2020, she was accepted to the trainee program with Alonzo King LINES Ballet here in San Francisco, completing her first year in the pandemic via Zoom, and finally moving to the Bay in 2021 to complete her second and final year.

In 2021, her performing career ended prematurely due to a spinal injury. After a short break from dance, she took a job this January at San Francisco High School of the Arts teaching ballet, contemporary, and jazz to both the full-time middle and high schoolers, as well as the Young Artists Program.

She’s eager to shift more into the studio with us, and we expect to see her in more classes as the season continues.

Leo Morimune began his extensive training receiving a full scholarship to San Francisco Ballet for 8 years. Graduated School of the Arts San Francisco, where he trained in Modern, Afro Haitian and Choreography. His professional dance career started at age 10 and transitioned to becoming a industry dancer after moving to LA.

He has danced for San Francisco Ballet/Opera, artists such as Paula Abdul, 50 cent, Carlos Santana, Nick Jonas, Bjork to name a few. TV shows like American idol, brands like Gucci & Nike. Balanced his career by pursuing stage performing by also performing on Off broadway shows and most recently Lincoln Center NYC.

Some of Leo’s teaching credits include being a faculty at LA’s dance studios such as EDGE Performing Arts Center and Debbie Reynolds. While polishing pre professional dancers for the audition phase, he completed over 10 years of tour on numerous convention circuits (LADM, WCDE, HW Vibe, Dance jamz)

guest taught at universities such as LMU, Princeton, and Long Beach University. In the past decade been invited to teach/direct internationally in Japan, Costa Rica, Canada, and Mexico.

Currently based in the bay, Leo guest instructs for domestic and international dance events through out the year. When he’s not traveling he is looking forward to sharing back his knowledge of dance/industry to the next generation of aspiring artists in his hometown.

Alina has been dancing since the age of 2, with her very first movement class at Small Fry Dance Club. She started with ballet, jazz, and tap but has fostered a love for and commitment to hip hop dance and its many styles.

Alina is currently an intermediate/advanced hip hop teacher at City Dance Studios in San Francisco. She is a member of APT, the apprentice hip hop team of professional dance team The Company (Daly City), and also Poise’N Brigade, the junior hip hop team of TRIBE (San Carlos). Alina is also a member of the Golden State Warriors Jr. Jam Squad (2022-2023 season) and a former member of the Krazy8 Senior hip hop competition team (San Mateo).

She has performed and competed at international hip hop competitions including Hip Hop International and World of Dance, where her teams placed as a finalist and Top 5 in the US team division, respectively. She has also performed in Stuck Sanders’ Hip Hop Halloween and Hip Hop Nutcracker at Fox Theatre (Redwood City) and the 2022 San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest at the Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco).

Alina is a New York City Dance Alliance (NYCDA) National Teen Standout Scholarship Award Winner for 2023 and was named MVP at the 2022 KĀOS hip hop convention in Santa Clara.

Alina is excited to bring her hip hop training and performance experience to the Intermediate Hip Hop team to help the team explore various styles of hip hop movement and intention.