Discover your inner dancer!

Ashanti Altovese offers dance lessons at the following location(s):

- Shoebox Studio, 864 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

- Symbolic Dance & Fitness, 672 South Van Ness Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

- Just Dance Ballroom, 2500 Embarcadero Street, Oakland, CA 94606

Go to the Dance Lessons page or email info@dancesportdivas.com to book a private lesson.

Although the Dancesport Divas encourages female empowerment through dance, men are allowed to take lessons with Ashanti Altovese and can do so as a private or group lesson.

One can share a private lesson with only one other person. No exceptions.

Friends and family are allowed to watch your private lesson, but to maintain a professional setting and focus for the client, no involvement or harassment in the form of talking, laughing, or other distracting behavior by the client's guests is allowed.

Clients are allowed to video record the dance material after the private lesson is completed.

You do not need a partner to take a dance lesson with the Dancesport Divas. Although some dances are better conducted with a regular partner, Ashanti Altovese instructs her clients with the knowledge of both the lead and the follow for partner dances.

You do not need to have a background in dance to take dance lessons with the Dancesport Divas. To become a performance member, a student must train with Ashanti Altovese for a minimum of 3 months even if one has a dance background.

To become a performer with the Dancesport Divas, one must take a minimum of 3 months to a year of lessons in the form of group or private instruction with Ashanti Altovese. All decisions of performance are based on the ability to execute choreography, entertain the audience, conduct oneself in a highly professional manner, and complete all training in financial good standing. To be considered as a performance member, please provide a headshot photo, dance resume, professional work resume, and contact information to info@dancesportdivas.com

A dancer for the Dancesport Divas is expected to:

- Train with Ashanti Altovese for a minimum of 3 months

- Pay for all training fees in full

- Present themselves in a respectable and professional manner

- Be on time to all training classes, performance events, or competition shows

- Treat other students, dancers, and the director with respect

- Have their own form of transportation either public, private, or personal

- Must have at least a high school diploma or G.E.D.

- Must share the vision of female empowerment through dance

The Dancesport Divas performance team has entertained audiences at the following events and venues:

- 2010 US Salsa Open, Oakland Marriott Convention Center, Oakland, CA

- 2010 Habibi Nights Dance Party, Cafe Cocomo, San Francisco, CA

- 2011 San Francisco Salsa Festival, Cafe Cocomo, San Francisco, CA

- 2011 Ballroom Fashion Extravaganza, Tatami Multi Arts Center, El Cerrito, CA

- 2011 Rose City Salsa Festival, Hilton Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver, WA

- 2011 Hubba Hubba Revue, The Uptown Club, Oakland, CA

- 2011 UNDER SF television program, University of California, SF, CA

After a dancer trains with Ashanti Altovese for a minimum of three months and the dancer is in good financial standing with all training fees paid in full, a dancer can perform with the Dancesport Divas at paid and non-paid events.