2 Recommended SF Walks!
The Magnolias are blooming in the SF Botanical Garden!
Peak bloom is expected to last through Valentine’s Day and President’s Day weekend with blooms expected to last until March.
Stroll through Chinatown to enjoy community events before/after the SF Chinese New Year Parade!
The parade is on Saturday, February 15.
Classes
Click on class name for more information.
In Person Classes
Mondays, 1-2:40pm. Free, ongoing.
Fridays, 1-2:40pm. Free, ongoing.
Thursdays, 10:30-11:30am. Free, ongoing.
Come to class to register - 480 Teresita Blvd, San Francisco, corner of Teresita and Arroyo.
The college no longer offers social or folk dance classes. I am not teaching there for Spring 2025.
Zoom Classes
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30-6:50pm. Pay-what-you-can.
3-week sessions:
February 4-20
March 4-20
April 8-24
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30-6:50pm. Pay-what-you-can.
3-week sessions:
February 4-20
March 4-20
April 8-24
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30-6:50pm. Pay-what-you-can.
3-week sessions:
February 4-20
March 4-20
April 8-24
Fridays, 10-11 am. Via zoom. Free, ongoing. Information and registration available by clicking class title.
Projects
Producing, Directing, Choreography, Research, Teaching
Choreography, Performances, Events, School Shows, Wedding Officiant, Quinceñeras, Parades, Educational Programming, Workplace classes and workshops.
Experience with all ages and skill levels.
Research projects and teaching related to health and wellness across the lifespan...the arts (especially dance!), language, movement, mind-body health, meditation, breathing, healthy eating, diversity, community building.
I accept a limited number of projects each year. Please email me about your project to see if we are a good match.
Events
MAPP is a lively, old-school Mission-wide party, well-attended by folks from the neighborhood and afar with bimonthly events all over the Mission for over 15 years. MAPP is dedicated to cultivating, building and defending the culture, history, character and community in the Mission District—transforming public spaces, non-profits, street corners, BART stations, cafes, bars, taquerias, garages and homes, into venues with free live music, spoken word, performance art, film screenings, delicious food, and a wide range of unique happenings.
Upcoming in 2025: April 5 and June 7, Free
Alex and I will be teaching basic Salsa steps at the Community Music Center, All ages welcome! We have enjoyed seeing CCSF students when we've done this event in the past and would love to see you there.
Event Schedule: 6pm - 9pm.
Exact schedule and information about music groups will be out soon. We usually teach 2 - 15 minute intro. classes, some time between 6-6:30 and 7-7:45.
UPDATE! Good News....
We'll be having one more CCSF Social Dance Party!
The "real" last CCSF Social Dance Party will be on Saturday, May 10, 2025, 1-4pm. ...so, ignore that flyer below, but enjoy the shot of me and Alex dancing!
A flyer for the "real" Last Social Dance Pary will be posted soon!
Performing with Alex Hosmer
Mission Dolores Basilica, December 2023
Concert: Navidad en la Misión with Community Music Center Choirs—with Coro CMC del Centro Latino de San Francisco and CMC Solera Singers of Mission Neighborhood Center with Coro de Camara and students of Beth Wilmurt. Special appreciation goes to Martha Rodriguez-Salazar and Jennifer Peringer for the invitation to perform at this lovely event.
About Me
Ph.D. Education, Capella University
M.F.A., Dance, Mills College
B.A. Dance, Mills College
Six Thumbs Dance Theatre
Founder and Director, 1985-1995Welcome to my website!
Dance. Yoga. Meditation. Tai Chi. Fitness. Wellness. I'm interested in the creative and healing aspects of movement and the sense of community that develops in movement classes and production projects. I enjoy working with people of all ages and am currently teaching classes that cultivate skill, wellness, and happiness across the lifespan.
During the ebb and flow of the pandemic, I focused on facilitating a sense of community in the places I teach, with an emphasis on encouraging myself and others to move our bodies and minds in a variety of ways. I was certified and began teaching Tai Chih Chih, Tai Chi for Arthritis & Fall Prevention, and Love Your Brain Yoga - a form of yoga focused on teaching those who have been impacted by traumatic brain injuries. I became an Accessible Yoga Ambassador, completed the ACEs Aware/Toxic Stress Certification, studied mindfulness with Mindful Schools, and trained so that I could teach college classes online, including yoga, folk dance, and salsa dance! As an independent teacher, I started, and continue, to offer movement classes via Zoom on a pay-what-you-can basis. Please see the "Classes" tab to find out what classes I am teaching now.
Dr. Jeanne-Marie Hughes (me!) holds a Ph.D. in Education and an MFA in Dance, and has been teaching at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) since 1989. Courses taught include: Modern Dance; Jazz Dance; Ballet; Ballroom Dance; Salsa and Latin American Dances; International Folk Dance; European Folk Dance; CCSF Dance Repertory Company, Dance Production (Modern, Ballroom, Folk, Salsa); Dance History; Analysis of Folk, Social and Ballroom Dance; Teaching Movement (A lecture class for future dance, PE, and yoga teachers); all levels of Yoga; Intensive Yoga; Yoga Movement; Aerobics; Resistance Training; and, Body Sculpting.
For over 30 years, Jeanne (pronounced "Jeannie") has organized and hosted several multicultural dance performances, parties, workshops, and festivals each year at CCSF. Examples of these events include: The Blossom International Folk Dance Festival; The San Francisco Free Folk Festival; The SF Kolo Dance Festival; AXIS Dance Company Workshop and Performance; Colombian Ethnic Dance Workshops; Romanian Dance Workshops; Alaskan Dance Workshop; Dances for All Ages Workshops; and, Filipino Dance Workshop. Each semester, for over 25 years, she has produced the CCSF Salsa and/or Ballroom Dance Party, and, the CCSF Low-Tech Dance Performance, an informal performance featuring dance work by CCSF faculty, students, and alum. Jeanne directed Working, an ongoing dance performance series presenting the work of CCSF dance students, alum, and other local choreographers. She was the Faculty Advisor of Shall We Dance, a CCSF partner social dance club and the Latin and Social Dance Club.
In response to student interest, Jeanne, an Integral Yoga certified yoga instructor, authored the CCSF Certificate of Accomplishment in Yoga Instruction and directed the program as a volunteer for two years. For this certificate program, she created a new course, Teaching Movement, designed to help future dance, yoga, and PE teachers gain a foundation in the theory and practice of teaching movement to students of all ages. To assist students in gaining experience as yoga teachers, she sponsored and supervised a series of student-led yoga workshops, which were free to the community. These included: Yoga taught in Spanish, Family Yoga, Yoga Taught in Italian, and Restorative Yoga.
Jeanne has taught at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 1990. She currently teaches Fitness and Conditioning, and, Individualized Weightlifting. Previous courses taught include: Fitness, Wellness, and the Global Perspective - for which students studied physical activities from around the world, methods of cultivating personal wellness, global public policies related to wellness, and they designed, implemented, and evaluated an 8-week personal wellness program; Ballroom Dance; Yoga; Aerobics; Step Aerobics; Posture; and, Personal Fitness Programming.
There is more to tell about Jeanne...like all of the work she's done with kids pre-K to high school, her research and lived experiences about what keeps college students in school, her role as a wedding officiant, yoga classes for infertility and neo-natal death, her choreographic works, and the 10 years she directed a dance company...but, that's all for now.