Faculty
Veronica Seca
Hip Hop
Veronica Seca is a Laredo native with over 23 years of dance experience. She has been trained in various styles of dance since the age of 3. Miss Veronica was a member of the award winning United High School Larriettes. She went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Texas State University. Upon graduation, Miss Veronica began the dance program at Rudder Middle School in NISD where she spent 3 years teaching. She is now the Pep Squad Director at Harlan High School and enjoys teaching at studios in San Antonio.
Carly Curry
Ballet
Carly is a Waco native and began dancing at the age of 5 at Joy's School of Dance. She is trained in Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Lyrical, Pom, and Theater dance. She has been a Ballet and Jazz instructor for 9 years. She graduated from Baylor University with a B.A. in English and a minor in Dance. At Baylor, she was a four year member and captain of the Baylor Songleaders (dance team). After graduation, Carly moved to New York City and was accepted into Broadway Dance Center's Professional Semester. After New York, Carly danced at Walt Disney World for three years in the Main Street Trolley Show, Festival of Fantasy Parade, Disney's Electrical Parade, and Celebrate the Season Castle Show. Carly now teaches high school English and lives in San Antonio with her husband, son, and 2 dogs. She is thrilled to be a part of the CAPA family this year!
Ali Jimenez
Jazz & Lyrical/Contemporary
A native of San Antonio, she has been passionate about dance since childhood. In high school, she was a member of the Brandeis Ballet Company and Brandeis Varsity Dance team for three years, she also served as lieutenant her senior year. She is attending the University of Texas at San Antonio, majoring in history and minoring in dance, intending to become a high school dance director. She has been a part of the UTSA Pom Squad for three years and currently serves as Captain of the team. She is also a performer with Artisan Oddities Dance Company, DFNTLY Entertainment Company, and Kinetic Vogue Dance Company. She is currently a staff member with Showmakers of America where she demonstrates choreography, and teaches and assists high school dance teams during camps, workshops, and competitions. She enjoys continuing her dance education by taking classes and workshops to maintain and improve herself in all styles of dance. Aliana is excited to join the CAPA family to share the love and excitement of performing with her students.
Emma Valdez
Leaps, Tricks, & Turns
Emma Valdez began dancing at age 6 at Studio 10 Dance Center. She trained in various dance styles including tap, jazz, ballet, pointe, hip-hop, and musical theater. She started competing on Co-Motion Dance Company then completed her training at Collective Dance Artistry, where she was a part of the pre-professional performance company. She competed at various regional competitions around the state of Texas. May 2023 she graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance and B.S. in Kinesiology and Health at The University of Texas at Austin. At UT Austin, she performed for Texas Theatre and Dance in Fall for Dance 2020, 2021 and 2022, Emerge 2023, and co-choreographed in the student lead performance EVOLUTION in 2022. She was also a member of the Texas Pom Squad for the 2020-2021 school year. Now, Emma continues to teach and choreograph in San Antonio and continues her education as a pre-PA student.
Karlene Bernal
Folklorico
Karlene began dancing at age 4 with the City of San Antonio parks and recreation. She was part of the pre-professional groups, Fandango and the professional troupe Ballet Folklorico Festival. She studied Flamenco and Folklorico under the direction of Sonya Casillas, Jose Padron, and Bruce Gonzales. She has taken workshops and studied under the guidance of Miguel Vargas, Illeana Gomez, and Pilar Andujar. She is a graduate of UTSA with a bachelor's degree in communication.
Rachel Nine-Olech
Office Manager
Social Media Director
Rachel started dancing at age 8 at Studio 10 Dance Center. She studied all forms of dance for 10 years including ballet/pointe, jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary, lyrical, modern, and musical theater. She was a member of Co Motion Dance Company, performing in regional and national competitions. She attended Northwest Vista College on a Las Casas Performing Arts scholarship as a dance major and was part of the NVC Repertory Dance Ensemble.
Rachel studied at Paul Mitchell the School, earning her cosmetology license and joined the staff of Salon Intrigue as a stylist in April 2017. After 2 years behind the chair, she was asked to manage social media for the salon.
After finding her niche in social media and graphic design she joined the faculty and staff at Class Act Performing Arts in March 2022 as social media director.
Front Desk
Marlena has been dancing since age 3. She has been part of the Kidsville kids organization and has performed all over San Antonio. She has performed half time for the San Antonio Scorpions and has danced competitively for o'connor spirit for four years. she is the co-captain of the o'connor Drill team.
she will be majoring in Criminal psychology this fall semester at UTSA!