Instructors

Arianna Lopez

Arianna is a professional salsa dancer, choreographer, and co-owner of SabroSoul Dance Academy with 15+ years of experience. Trained in San Diego and LA, she specializes in Salsa On2, femme styling, and body movement, and loves sharing her passion through teaching and performance.

Arianna Lopez

Arianna Lopez is a professional Salsa dancer, instructor, choreographer, and academy owner with over 15 years of dance experience. With a background in hip hop and jazz and training throughout San Diego and Los Angeles, she specializes in Salsa On2, femme styling, and body movement.

Her passion for the art form carries through her teaching and leadership. Arianna loves guiding students and teams through their individual dance journeys, creating an environment where dancers can train with intention, build confidence, express themselves, and develop a deeper passion for Salsa.

Bryan Hernandez

Bryan Hernandez is a professional Salsa dancer, instructor, and choreographer with over 10 years of experience. Specializing in Salsa On2 partnerwork, shines, Cha Cha Chá, and musicality, Bryan is known for bringing a strong understanding of music, technique, and connection into his teaching.

His passion for dance and music is at the heart of every class he teaches. Bryan is dedicated to helping students understand not only how to move, but how to connect movement to the music while developing confidence and their own individual style. He values each student’s unique learning journey and strives to create an environment where dancers feel challenged, supported, and inspired to continue growing.

Angelina Lopez

My dance journey began at age 6 with hip-hop, eventually learning jazz, salsa, and bachata at Alma Latina. At 12, I began training more seriously in salsa at Speranza Dance Company and later joined Majesty in Motion in 2023. I had the opportunity to direct two teams, a ladies’ styling team and a partner work team.

Directing my own teams allowed me to develop my style, one that focuses on musicality, intentionality, and connection to salsa music. For me, dance is freedom, a way to express myself through fluid, powerful, and passionate movement. Through teaching, I strive to cultivate a supportive and empowering community. By emphasizing body awareness, movement, and the exploration of femininity, I aim to create a space where dancers feel confident, connected, and free to express themselves.

Talia Castellanos

My dance journey started in salsa about seven years ago with Majesty in Motion Dance Company, where I built a strong foundation in footwork, musicality, partner work, and social dance culture. Over time, I expanded into modern and jazz at Southwestern College and Grossmont College, which opened up a more expansive, theatrical, and expressive side of my movement.

My dance style blends these influences—salsa’s rhythm and grounded connection with the isolations, breath-centered movement, and the storytelling of modern and jazz. I’m really drawn to movement that feels honest and alive, where technique supports expression rather than limits it.

Dance, for me, is both grounding and freeing—it’s where I feel most connected to myself and to others. I’m especially passionate about the way dance builds community and collaborative spaces where dancers feel comfortable exploring, taking risks, and finding their own voice in movement.

Instructors

Arianna Lopez

Bryan Hernandez

Angelina Lopez

Talia Castellanos

Bryan and Arianna