About Pascale
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I started dancing when I was five years old.
Ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary. Ten years of training, thousands of hours of practice, a deep and genuine love for movement that shaped everything about who I am.
And then came the competing. The performing. The reputation to maintain.
I competed successfully in Salsa and Bachata for years. From the outside, it looked like everything was going well. It wasn't. It never felt right. I never believed dance should have rules like that. Comparisons, rankings, the constant measuring of one body against another. I competed because I felt I had to. To stay relevant. To be taken seriously. To be enough.
And the performing? I battled nerves every single time. It was never easy. Never effortless. Never the joyful expression it was supposed to be.
"This is not enough anymore. I want to go deeper"
Somewhere along the way, I put my own dancing on hold. I poured everything into my students. Their growth, their confidence, their breakthroughs and I built a life and a living around being there for them.
Until one day, standing in front of a class, I had a thought I couldn't ignore anymore:
I'm tired of being people's entertainment.
Not the teaching. Never the teaching. But the performance of it. The showing up as the expert on the pedestal. The giving and giving without going deeper. I looked at everything I knew - 25 years of movement, training, coaching, competing, performing - and I thought: this is not enough anymore. I want to go deeper.
That moment is why By Pascale exists.
What I know after 25 years...
I've trained in ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary, pilates and partner dance. I've competed, performed, coached and taught at every level. But the most important thing I've learned has nothing to do with technique.
It's this: the moment someone truly improves: in their dancing, in their confidence, in the way they hold themselves - it's never just about the steps. It's about something shifting on the inside. Something unlocking. Some quiet, powerful part of them finally being given permission to show up.
I've watched students with low self-esteem become dancers who command a room. I've watched people who edited everything they said and did, who made themselves small in their relationships, their friendships, their lives — find their voice through movement.
That's what I'm here for.
Not to entertain. Not to perform expertise from a distance.
To go deeper. With you.
"The moment someone truly improves - it's never just about the steps"
Who I am as a teacher.
My students would tell you I'm technical and fun. That I find a way to make the details feel exciting rather than overwhelming. I have a gift for reading each person individually, understanding exactly what they need, what's holding them back, and how to help them get there.
I'm not here to be on a pedestal. I am one of you. I know what it feels like to perform when you're terrified inside. To follow rules that don't feel true to you. To put everyone else first and wonder what's left for yourself.
Which is why I created two distinct spaces: one for the joy of movement, and one for something deeper.
A place where movement is allowed to mean something.
If that resonates with you, I'd love to meet you.