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  • Pattie Lawton | Vice Chair

    Pattie Lawton | Vice Chair

    Pattie Lawton has been a top-producing San Francisco real estate expert since 1998, recognized for her market leadership at Sotheby’s International Realty, where she is ranked among the top 100 agents company-wide.

    Pattie’s lifelong connection to dance and the performing arts is rooted in her academic background—she holds degrees from University of California Berkeley and Mills College, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Dance. Pattie has a rich history with dance in San Francisco. She taught dance at many schools, colleges, and private studios in the Bay Area in addition to performing in several local dance companies. Following her dance career, Pattie entered the fitness industry as a Teacher Trainer developing the program for Jane Fonda Workout. In 2023, she joined the Board of Directors for Alonzo King LINES Ballet, where she now serves as Vice Chair. She continues to be thrilled and inspired by each performance and motivated by the spirit of artistic collaboration.

    Pattie is deeply involved in the arts and education, serving as President of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Performance + Design (MP+D). The museum has been diligently collecting and preserving the history of the performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 75 years. With a vast collection of over 3.5 million items, MP+D serves as a prominent living record that spans from the era of the Gold Rush to the present day, capturing the rich tapestry of the performing arts of San Francisco and beyond.

    Born in New York City, Pattie has called San Francisco home for over 40 years, residing in Russian Hill with her children.

    Photography: Pattie Lawton | © Rus Anson

  • Sandra Lloyd

    Sandra Lloyd

    Sandra Lloyd has had a varied career as an independent film producer with a contract at Paramount Pictures, as a public television producer at KUHT Houston, and as a photographer. She graduated from the Stanford University Film Program, studied acting at ACT, directed at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and taught contemporary drama and business management at UCSF. She has photographed dress rehearsals for Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Sacramento Ballet. She is also a member of the SFMOMA’s Photography Acquisitions Committee.

    She was a founding board member of Planetree, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing new models of healthcare delivery. She also worked as a medical researcher in charge of animal surgery.

    Sandra has served on the boards of Grace Cathedral, the UCSF Foundation, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Baylor Institute of Ophthalmology, and the Houston Ballet. In addition, she also served on the board of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where she was a co-founder of the Chair in Psychiatry.

    She currently serves as a board member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet and the Leadership Council of the New York Stem Cell Foundation. A graduate of Paris-Sorbonne Université, she speaks fluent French.

    Sandra lives full-time in Stinson Beach with her husband.

    Photography: Sandra Lloyd | © Lisa Keating

  • David Fonnegra

    David Fonnegra

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    David Fonnegra was born in Venezuela where he began his ballet studies at Ballet Teresa Carreno. At the age of 14, he became a principal dancer with Ballet Nacionál de Caracas and performed the leads in all the great romantic ballets including Raymonda, George Sans, Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo & Juliet and Don Quixote. While on tour in 1995, Mr. Fonnegra joined the Miami City Ballet with its legendary founding director, Edward Villella. During his seven years at Miami City Ballet, he danced many principal roles in their Balanchine repertoire in addition to the classics. In 2002, Mr. Fonnegra came to California dancing with State Street Ballet and Channel Island Ballet as a guest artist. In 2004 he joined Diablo Ballet, where he continues to perform and choreograph on the company. As a dancer with Diablo Ballet, Mr. Fonnegra has been featured in The Legend of Taj Mahal, Petrushka, Who Cares?, Stars and Stripes, Once upon a Ballroom, and Jazz Fever to name a few. He continues to be a sought-after guest artist in the United States, Europe, and South America: as a performer, teacher, and choreographer. He has taught extensively in the Bay Area for almost a decade for such organizations as Lines Ballet, Contra Costa Ballet, Benicia Ballet, Ayako Ballet School, Livermore Ballet school, Western Ballet, Diablo Ballet, and Peninsula Ballet Theatre as well as for New World School of the Arts (Miami), Ballet National De Caracas, and Houston Ballet. His ultimate dream is to one day create his own company and studio.

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  • Kaori Ogasawara

    Kaori Ogasawara

    Kaori Ogasawara was born in Japan and she studied ballet with her grandmother, Kazue Ogasawara, and Takao Hisamitsu. In 1993, she came to the US to train at the Boston Ballet School and later danced at Boston Ballet before joining Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 1999 with her husband, Christopher Rendall-Jackson. She was promoted to soloist in 2004. She has performed in several galas and appeared as a guest artist in the roles of Swanhilda in Coppelia, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, the Sylph in La Sylphide, and the balcony Pas de Deux from John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet. After joing PBT, she performed many featured roles including the Sugar Plum Fairy and Marie in Terrence S. Orr’s The Nutcracker, Myrtha in Giselle, Mercedes in Don Quixote, Svetlana in Ben Stevenson’s Dracula, Queen of Hearts in Derek Dean’s Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. She also had many opportunities to dance George Balanchine’s ballet including the Russian Lead Girl in Serenade, Sylvia Grand Pas de duex, Theme and variation, Divertimento No. 15, and Who cares?. She has also performed in contemporary ballets by choreographers such as Paul Taylor, Dwight Rhoden, and Jean-Christophe Maillot. Ms. Ogasawara and her husband retired from the stage in 2009, and they are the proud parents of two children, Emiya and Hana.

  • Chanel Ashley

    Chanel Ashley

    Chanel was born in Sacramento, California and moved to San Francisco in 2021. She began her journey with movement and wellness 10 years ago when she started taking yoga classes for stress management. She developed her love for community, culture and art after spending 3 years backpacking through Europe, Asia and Australia. She was introduced to the Pilates Method when traveling Australia, which led her to get a certification in Mat Pilates. She continues her education with Polestar Pilates and is currently becoming a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. You can find her taking beginning Ballet classes at the dance center!

  • Roseann Baker

    Roseann Baker

    Roseann is a dancer and movement educator and has been training in the GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® methodologies for over 20 years. She is a certified trainer in both the GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® systems as well as a GYROKINESIS® Pre-Trainer. She teaches at San Francisco GYROTONIC®, LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican University, & the LINES Ballet Training and Summer Programs. She holds her BFA in Dance from the State University of New York at Purchase College. She has danced with Nelly van Bommel’s NØA Dance, Garrett+Moulton Productions, LEVYdance, and Bellwether Dance Project to name a few. She also creates her own work with her project Rose Moves. Roseann is a believer in the inherent benefits of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® and looks forward to sharing the experience of movement freedom, connectedness and the powerful feelings that inspire this beautiful system.

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  • Ananda Bena-Weber

    Ananda Bena-Weber

    Ananda Bena-Weber is an interdisciplinary performing artist and choreographer whose award-winning work tours the United States and abroad. She recently returned to the Bay Area from New York City where she taught for 16 years at Marymount Manhattan College, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Mark Morris Dance Center. Ananda is the Associate Artistic Director of the Sierra Nevada Ballet, and an adjudicator for Regional Dance America. She specializes in applying deep relaxation and specific alignment to ballet technique to heal and prevent injuries and to maximize pleasure in movement. Bena-Weber is a member of Actors Equity Association, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, and a board member of North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents.

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  • T-Shirt: Blue Wave

    T-Shirt: Blue Wave

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  • Track Jacket

    Track Jacket

    This attractive jacket is great for the studio and for the street.
    Features our teal “Waves” logo.

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