Dance Instructor Yvette Lantz

Yvette Lantz is a dance instructor with almost 30 years of experience teaching, performing and choreographing Ballet, Jazz and Modern Dance.  Her early training was in Southern California at many private studios as well as Long Beach City College, Cal State University Long Beach and she majored in Dance at the University of Irvine.

     Moving to Southern Oregon she taught Jazz for 10 years at Rogue Community College and Jazz and Ballet at a private studio.  During this period Yvette continued to study dance at seminars and workshops with Bill Evans and Kitty Daniels, Eugene Ballet, Oakland Ballet, Rosella Hightower Institute in Cannes, France, Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah as well as ongoing classes with Richard Jessup, Penney King and many others.

     Yvette has been on the Olympic Peninsula for the past 2 years and has studied with Ling Hui and performed in her 2006 concert.  Yvette is a Registered Nurse and she feels this contributes to her expertise in teaching.  She especially enjoys encouraging musicality and progress in dance at any age.