Sandra Chinn

Sandra Chinn is a ballet teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received the Special Achievement Award by the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee for her "commitment to and excellence in the training, teaching, inspiring, and motivating dancers throughout the dance community”. Most recently she is on faculty at Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA at Dominican College, and is director of ballet pedagogy for Berkeley Ballet Theater Youth Division. She enjoys teaching for dance companies, most recently ODC/Dance, Alonzo King Lines Ballet,  SF DanceWorks, Eight/Moves, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, A.I.M Kyle Abraham, and Paul Taylor Dance Company. She teaches ballet classes inspired by somatic studies with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen because she believes these concepts reveal additional possibilities for rich, efficient and elegant movement. Sandra is grateful for a performing and teaching career in the concert dance field and looks forward to continuing her work and studies for many years to come.