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Summer Kocjan-Castro. Summer is an experienced dancer of 16 years, specializing in Contemporary Dance. Summer has participated in the High School Symposium for Dance Majors at Arizona State University, has studied with Maureen Price, A.R.A.D., and Gail Reed, Ph.D., R.A.D.T.D. at Northern Arizona State University Preparatory School of Dance for two summers. She has taught Creative Dance at The Dancespace since 1997. She also assists with R.A.D. classes. Her performance experience includes the Jazz Symposium at University of Arizona, as well as many Dancespace productions. She was featured as "Skinny" (one of the ugly Stepsisters) in our 2002 and 2003 Cinderella Ballet. She is a founding member of "In Spiritus." She is also Business Manager for the Dancespace. Jasmine Castro. Jasmine teaches Jazz/Hip Hop. Jasmine is a talented young dancer who has been studying at the Dancespace since age four. She premiered her choreography in 2010 “Dances in the Desert”, and brought the house down. Home Page | Our Company | Scholarships | Class and Performance Schedules
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Jan Kocjan, R.A.D., Teaching Certificate, Studio Owner.
Ms. Kocjan has been an instructor in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Modern and Creative Dance for Children in her privately-owned studio, "The Dancespace" since 1978. She has been a registered teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance since 1992. In May, 1995 she received her Teaching Certificate from the R.A.D. She majored in Modern Dance at the University of California, Hayward. 
She is choreographer for bi-yearly performances for her students, as well as many performances for outdoor and seasonal events for community organizations. She has choreographed the Page High school musical productions: "Brigadoon, "Good Man Charlie Brown", "Once Upon A Mattress", "Bye, Bye Birdie", “Fiddler on the Roof" and "Oklahoma". She was a member of the Arizona Fine Arts Teacher Cadre for the Arizona Department of Education in 1989, 1990. She presented movement workshops for the Annual Symposium of Language, Culture and Education at the Tuba City Schools in 1992 and 1993, and for students at the Department of Excellence in Education at Northern Arizona University in 1991 and 1992. She has taught for Yavapai Community College extension in Page, the Page Community Recreation Department, done choreography, workshops and lecture-demonstrations for the Page Elementary and Middle Schools. Mrs. Kocjan also teaches dance and Pilates for Coconino Community College.