SUZANNE (Zan) BEAHRS

2026 CLASSES + WORKSHOPS

Beginning I Contemporary (ongoing drop-in class)

Mon/Wed 6 pm - 7:30 pm

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, 2704 Alcatraz Ave, Berkeley, CA

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Stay tuned for the next Moving Freely: An Immersive Dance Weekend!

Here’s info from the first one:

“With great care, Suzanne invites you to stretch and mutate not only your physical dance vocabulary, but what dance means for you altogether. Her deceptively simple instruction opens portals to a freer and wiser sense of physical knowing, and bridges us together beautifully (even through screens!).” -Playshop participant

“Playshop feels like a community of discoverers, even over zoom, with Suzanne as the adventurous guide”. - Playshop participant

“It was one of the best classes I have ever experienced in my path as a mover. Suzanne offers a wide variety of exercises and approaches to dance that make it easy for people with diverse backgrounds to understand movement and appreciate it. Class was challenging and easy to follow at the same time, energizing and relaxing all together. Participating in this class definitely expanded my abilities as a dancer and it gave me precise, detailed knowledge to rely on in my personal learning process. What's more this class provided me with a reliable and expert guide for my artistic growth.” - Playshop student

“I have improved significantly because of Suzanne. I hope to have her again. No one else has pushed me so far off my comfort zone, and I really feel gutsy. She explains concepts in a way that I can actually understand.” -Elon University Student, 2016

Suzanne “made an effort to get to know us, and what we were capable of, and I think created a great class that worked in many spaces. I would say she creates a great environment that feels safe and fun, and one where we can make mistakes and ask questions.” - City College of San Francisco Student, 2021