Dance is for everybody

Dance is for you

Company Artists

  • Kim

    DANCER

  • Lane

    DANCER

  • Jaque

    Dancer

  • Caryn

    Dancer

  • Liz

    DANCER

  • Lakshmi

    DANCER

  • Shirley

    DANCER

  • Katie

    DANCER

  • Ami

    DANCER

  • Jenni

    Dancer

  • Esther

    DANCER

  • Anush

    DANCER

  • Emily

    DANCER

  • Sandrine

    DANCER

  • Jane

    DANCER

  • Joy

    DANCER

Choreographer

Rachel Dauod started dancing ballet at the age of 5 in New York at the Rockville Studio of Dance. After a family move to California she continued her ballet training under the tutelage of Lawrence Rosenberg and Sarma Lapenieks Rosenberg. Rachel was accepted to and attended summer intensives at The Joffrey School of Ballet. Under the direction of Lawrence Rosenberg and Sarma Lapenieks Rosenberg Rachel performed corps de ballet roles as well as soloist roles in the following works The Nutcracker: A Journey to Candyland, Hans Christian Andersen’s Storybook Wedding, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, Graduation Ball, Beauty and the Beast, Cowboy Cakewalk, Greensleeves, Waltz In Ragtime (Joplin), and The Swallows. Corps de ballet roles for The Eglevsky Ballet in The Nutcracker. Soloist role of Prunella in Cinderella under the direction of Axel Hering. As well as performed repertoire pieces by Donna Boise and illusions as a magician assistant for Andy Amyx in Japan as part of the Hollywood Dance and Magic Show. Rachel taught ballet and began choreographing at The Ballet Conservatory for a few years before going back to school to become a Clinical Social Worker. Rachel currently is a therapist and choreographing works for PAW and its associated studio company.

Director

Emily has been turning in circles ever since she learned to walk. After falling in love with classical ballet as a young child, she turned those circles into pirouettes at Performing Arts Workshop in Encinitas. Emily was lucky enough to attend Columbia College Chicago where she earned her BFA in Dancemaking and was supported, shaped, and radically challenged in her training and ideas about what dance was and could be. She has had the immense pleasure and honor of studying under Darrell Jones, Laura Wade, Bonnie Brooks, Carrie Hansen, Peter Carpenter, Dardi McGinley Gallivan, David Dorfman, Larry Rosenberg, Lisa Gonzales, Richard Woodbury, and Kate Corby among others. Emily has since come back to takeover and run Performing Arts Workshop armed with a love for community, a fascination with form/function, and a fervent desire to make as much room for and access to the work as possible. Emily is also the Director of Ballet Collective San Diego.

We believe in the power of

art, community, & excellence.

Agnes de Mille

“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie.”

Shel Silverstein

“Do a loony-goony dance, ‘cross the kitchen floor, put something silly in the world that ain’t been there before.”

Merce Cunningham

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”