The Team
Meet Our Resident Artists
Anneta La Rusa
Founder / Director / Resident Artist
Anneta's training started back in Russia with an extensive history in Gymnastics, Synchronized Swimming and Latin Dance.
She is no stranger to stage and screen performance having participated in numerous theatre productions (MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling, Contact Theatre, Manchester), Salsa Dance Festivals (Afro Cuban Salsa Fiesta, Manchester Latin Festival, Plymouth Tropical Summer Festival, Salsa Feel The Heat…), Stage Productions (Oi Brasil, London), and filming projects (007 James Bond release "No Time to Die").
Anneta's passion for dance led her to explore various styles and techniques, including Contemporary, Afro, Ballet, and Cuban popular dance. However, it was her deep love for Cuban dance that inspired her to establish Studio Ile Ache in Glasgow City Centre.
Anneta is currently the owner and director of Studio Ile Ache, continuing to promote all things dance, art and culture in Scotland, and her school La Rusa Dance, which focuses on Cuban Salsa and related classes that focus on the feminine form and body movement.
Anneta's Classes:
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Cuban Salsa
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Ladies Cuban Style
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Ladies Rumba “Skirtology”
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Cubatone®
For more information about these classes, explore our Dance Classes page
Dorine Mugisha
Resident Artist
Dorine Mugisha is an international performer, instructor and retreat leader. Originally Tanzanian, born and raised in France, living in the UK and having traveled over 25 countries, she is inspired by an array of cultures and speaks 4 languages. She has a degree in Law & Sociology, experience working in the charity sector for over 10 years and recently obtained her IAFPD Primary Certificate in Health and Wellbeing Coaching. Combining her passion for traveling, dance and bringing people together, she created Body Movement.me to share with diverse people the power that movement has in building not only your physical wellbeing, but especially your mental wellbeing. Whether you are attending a retreat, a class, an event, or wanting a bespoke occasion, the aim is to recharge, reconnect and renew you. She is particularly keen on seeing more representation of plus size bodies.
Credits: Love Dance Scotland Bursary Award 2023, The Citizens Newspaper 2023 (Tanzanian), Breakin Convention London 2023, All Europe Waacking Festival Paris 2023, Winner Waack the World Thessaloniki 2022, Winner Disconnection Jam London 2021, Winner 2017, World of Dance UK (The Archetype),
Dorines Classes:
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Whacking
For more information about these classes, explore our Dance Classes page
Vanessa Leamy Corsini
Resident Artist
Vanessa trained professionally in ballet in Florence, Italy, from a young age under the tutelage of Cinzia Vannini and Marga Nativo. After flirtations with contemporary dance and flamenco she discovered Argentine tango. She has been studying and developing her dance ever since. She currently resides in Scotland where she dedicates herself to developing the local Argentine tango scene. She is the Artistic Director of the Glasgow Tango Collective.
Vanessa's Classes:
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Argentine Tango
For more information about these classes, explore our Dance Classes page
Nancy Jacinto
Resident Artist
Nancy is a performer and dance artist with a multidisciplinary background. Her dance is rooted in Latin Dances and Bellydance. She has BA in Performing Arts & Drama Literature and a Diploma in Oriental Dance, also often referred as Bellydance (Raks Sharqi)
She has been working as a dancer, performer, choreographer and dance teacher in Mexico and Scotland. She has performed and collaborated with Femmes Uncut, Mhz Scenography (for STRUT) Feral Arts, Surge Scotland, Latin American Connections, Milk Café Community, Jhankar Beats, CWIN and Scottish Refugee Festival.
Her artistic work focuses on representing her cultural background and embodiment of female expression and empowerment through the art of Bellydance, pointing up the sense of belonging as a migrant and the feeling comfortable in her own-coloured skin and body.
Nancy's Classes:
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Bellydance
For more information about these classes, explore our Dance Classes page
Chinyanta Kabaso
Resident Artist
Chinyanta is a dance choreographer, performer, teacher and content creator whose work centres around dance of the African diaspora. She creates both live and digital performances that draw from modern and traditional styles of afro-carribean dance. Her work uses joyful humour to create pieces that are educative and entertaining.
Chinyanta also serves as a board member of The Work Room and an Engagement Producer at the Scottish Ballet. She has created dance work for many organisations including Tramway (Glasgow), The Edinburgh Carnival, The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and The Black-E (Liverpool) and The Artscape Theatre (Cape Town).
Some of her notable awards include being selected for the National Theatre of Scotland's 'Discover Residency', The Project X Sparks Bursary and the TED Africa Idea Search.
Chinyanta's Classes:
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Afrobeats
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Miya Pniel
Resident Artist
Ever since Miya was a little girl, dance has played a part in her life. It made her feel fabulous and allowed her to express herself, even when she was feeling not-so-fabulous.
Miya now works for a company called SOS. They are on a mission to empower a generation to love themselves through dance, which is exactly the vibe Miya will be bringing to her classes.
Miya believes that dance has a wonderful way of bringing people together and welcomes everyone, of any level or background in her classes.
Miya's Classes:
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SOS Dance
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