ABOUT JILLIAN I'm a California native and have lived in Orange County since I was a teenager attending San Clemente High School. Receiving my BA and Masters from UC Irvine in a five year program that awarded both degrees, I shortly afterwards traveled extensively throughout Europe and the South Pacific to take in new cultures and ideas. As a young woman I danced in the UC Irvine ballet program under the direction of Eugene Loring and I was a a professional ballet dancer with world-renown Ballet Pacifica in Laguna Beach. In the last fourteen years I have directed over thirty full length and one act plays in venues and theaters all over Orange County and was artistic director of a local community theater for many years in San Juan Capistrano. Coaching has always been a priority with me and I have worked with numerous Ballroom and Latin champions over the years, among them: Michael Mead and Toni Redpath; four time, four year in a row, US American Smooth Champions, Igor and Irina Suvorov; 3rd Place World Standard Champions, Nadia Eftedal; Winner of 9 different World and US Latin Championships, Claudio Rubio; Argentine Tango Champion of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lisa Narita; West Coast Swing, Hustle, and Night Club 2-Step US Champion. At the following California competitions I competed in American Smooth: Waltz, Foxtrot, American Tango and Viennese Waltz:
I teach out of the DVIDA sanctioned syllabi for American Smooth, Rhythm and Argentine Tango dances and combine my experiences in the business and the artistic worlds to bring the concepts and step movement to my dance students in innovative and exciting manners. My professional affiliations include: Pi Beta Phi fraternity, the National Dance Council of America, the Orange County Association of Bridal Consultants. and the American Civil War Society. Recently I incorporated both my business in ballroom dance, Our Wedding Dance and web designing, Anteater Web Design. |
