Joallyn spent her early years through college learning, doing, competing, coaching and teaching gymnastics. She began assisting physical education teachers in elementary school and continued after college, both in the U.S. and Germany, so has been teaching essentially all her life. She has also studied ballet, jazz, tap and other forms of theatre dance for over 30 years, competing with an adult jazz and tap company throughout California, as well as Las Vegas and Baja. Joallyn began seriously studying ballroom dancing in 1995, although she had been studying and dancing social and country dancing for many years prior to 1995. At one point Joallyn owned her own dance studio. She, now, however, much prefers focusing on teaching vs the administration of ownership.

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Joallyn currently teaches both group and private lessons in nearly all styles of partner dancing, both International and American style ballroom, Latin, and Night Club dances as well as East and West Coast Swing, weekly, in Alamo, Danville, Orinda and Pleasanton, California.