Cannetta Bradford is a licensed, certified, and insured Zumba teacher for adults and kids. She has over twenty years of certified group fitness class experience. Cannetta has enjoyed the privilege of working as a dance teacher for the University of San Diego and the Golden Door as a fitness specialist and dance teacher. 

Cannetta also owned and operated a dance studio in Alaska.  As a studio owner, she was gifted with teaching and running up to 23 classes per week, ages ranging from 3-75 years young. She choreographed and overseen all performance and competition routines. Cannetta planned and coordinated competition team travel to regional and national dance workshops and competitions.

Cannetta is motivated to teach and engage kids in the art of dance, fitness, creative thinking, games and joyful play. Her motivation comes from a deep love for dance. She first started dancing at age 5. Cannetta was nicknamed Kinetic Energy due to her contagious, never ending joy, while in motion. She went on to travel, compete, perform, and thrive, while dancing. She began teaching her first class by age 14 and opening a studio by the age of 20. 

Cannetta enjoys bringing out joy through movement with music. Zumba provides a strong sense of different cultures in its unique, rhythmic program. She loves to learn about and share what she’s learned of different rhythms and dances from countries all around our world.

When Cannetta teaches Zumba, she implements different instruments while teaching specific choreography. She’s often found showing a map to students so they can see where they are virtually traveling, while listening to a specific song to tie the choreography together. For example, when she teaches the merengue, she provides beautiful authentic maracas to be used for the duration of a Merengue song. Participants imagine traveling to the Dominican Republic and practicing dancing traditional merengue movements. 

Seeing smiles and hearing laughter coming from participants while learning the cumbia is priceless. After traveling on our map to Columbia students dance a sleepy leg routine with lots of giggles. This is something that is not only memorable but gets her students exercising, and playing together. This class is providing a social, safe environment so kiddos feel free to express themselves and grow friendships. 

Cannetta encourages her classes to have creative improvisation, most of her routines can be followed along with, without any breakdown of the routines, some songs include choreography breakdown, with Q&A’s. Zumba classes grow rhythmically with new choreography. 

Cannetta understands that how kids feel emotionally, mentally, and physically can be different daily. She also understands the need to customize movements for specific needs and/or requests. She’s happy to modify movements based on any daily feeling or challenge. Cannetta is available to hear any questions you might have and hopes to answer your questions with care. 

Thank you for taking the time to read her short bio ; )!