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Marie Hoffman & Dwain Roqué

Marie and Dwain are the owners of both Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach Jazzercise, and are so grateful for the amazing students there! Their students are known to be warm, funny, and welcoming! Marie and Dwain are both so happy to have a team of Regular Instructors and Substitute Instructors who are talented and kind. Together Marie and Dwain were certified as a Jazzercise Instructors in 1987. Marie has been a full time she is a Realtor since 1989, first at RE/MAX and now at Keller Williams and has helped over 550 people buy or sell homes since 1989. In 2006 she has added her best friend Susan Murphy to her Real Estate team. She enjoys reading, being outside, surfing and gardening. Dwain has his own business working with Mac computers. He teaches for the Sierra Club, enjoys kayaking and scuba diving. If you ask what they like to do best, it is to LEARN! Marie and Dwain are parents to 4 cats and Aunt and Uncle to 16 nieces and nephews.

Karen Reue

Karen has been an instructor for 8 years and always looks forward to the days she is scheduled to teach--it’s the closest thing to “recess” that she has found, and the students always brighten her day. She has always enjoyed sports and spent many hours practicing flyaways on the uneven bars in gymnastics while growing up in Tucson, Arizona. She loves the Arizona desert and hot weather, but married a southern California native who refuses to live anywhere else. Sandwiched between learning Jazzercise routines and chauffeuring her daughter to cello rehearsals and Tae Kwan Do classes, Karen is a Professor in the UCLA School of Medicine, where she studies how genes normally control our body’s metabolism, and what goes wrong in diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.

Melissa Filek

JazzerMel loves Jazzercise more than anything in the whole world. . . . other than her husband. Originally from Ventura, California, Melissa was certified at age 18 in Santa Barbara, but resigned from being an instructor when she went away to college a couple years later at San Diego State. She continued taking classes up and down the coast until she married and settled in Redondo Beach. She was convinced to re-certify in the summer of 2008 and has been subbing for Beach Cities Jazzercise ever since. When she is not busy teaching 6th grade Language Arts at Parras Middle School in Redondo Beach, she and her husband love to spend time traveling. They have been to 23 countries and counting! She has taken Jazzercise classes all around world and says, "Jazzercise is the next closest thing to living out my dream of being an NBA dancer!" JazzerMel played 3 sports in high school, enjoys hanging out with her 2 younger sisters, practically lives at Nordstroms, loves to read, and is always up to date on her "People" and "US Weekly" magazines! We are lucky to have her as part of our team because of her radiating energy, enthusiasm, and sense of humor. (And she loves Golden Spoon!)

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Deborah Johnson

An Herbal life employee by day, Deb transforms into a great Jazzercise instructor by nightfall! Loved by all her students, we are blessed to have Deb part of our team. Her energy, tough workouts and words of encouragement are a great asset to our classes! Deb is enjoying married life in Long Beach. She is a wonderful singer (an alto), takes dance classes when she has time and is lucky enough to have three sisters who all live in the LA area.

Martha Maguire

As a Substitute Instructor of 5 years, when Martha teaches, her main goal is to have the students express themselves freely with the music and have fun while working out. She enjoys setting the example... “Dance like no one is watching you!” Her favorite format of Jazzercise is Circuit and her favorite place to teach is at Marie and Dwain’s classes, because of the warm friendliness of everyone! Martha works full time as a DHL/Danzas dispatcher, part time as Hula instructor at Adventure Plex, Manhattan Beach and she teaches hula at little girls Hawaiian birthday parties. Martha lived in Hawaii for 23 years and enjoys sharing the Aloha spirit with everyone. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends and her favorite moment is every morning, having quiet meditation time, watching the sunrise and getting ready for another beautiful day. That she sees as a gift!

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