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Vima Dance Studio

Vima Dance Studio
136 Missouri St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Vima Dance Studio
POTRERO HILL
136 Missouri St
Bwtn 17th & Mariposa Streets
San Francisco, California 94107

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Photis Pishiaras, a Greek Cypriot, first performed folk dancing in kindergarten continuing through his teenage years. While attending college in Athens, Greece, he taught ballroom dance at the Gene Kelly School before completing a choreography program in Berlin, Germany, and opening his own ballroom dance school in Cyprus.

Photis moved to San Francisco in 1994 where he taught at Arthur Murray Dance Studio for eight years.

Photis established Vima Dance Studio in San Francisco in 2005 which he operated until 2014.

Competing in the US, Canada and Europe, Photis and his dance partner, Ron, together known as Photon won the 2012 US and California and the 2013 US and North America Men's Ballroom Standard championships. They got a Gold medal in the 2013 World OutGames in Antwerp. They won silver medals for the world championships in Men's Ballroom and Latin division at the Ninth Gay Games in Cleveland, Ohio. They are the 2015 Montreal Rainbow Dance Challene Ballroom Standard champions - Montreal, Canada and 2015 US championship runner ups. They hold the 2016 US Men's Ballroom Championship. They are the 2016 North America Ballroom Standard championship runner ups, Dublin, Ohio. Their latest exciting accomplishment was winning the 2017 North America Men's Ballroom Championship, Palm Springs, California.

Photis is the founder of the all-male performance group, Vima Vice Squad, who are the 2011 - 2014 US and 2013 North America Formation Team Champions. Vima Vice Squad won the world championship with a Gold medal at the 2014 Ninth Gay Games in Cleveland, Ohio. They are the 2016 US Formation Team Champions.

He dances Country Western and studied clogging with the Barbary Coast Cloggers.

Photis is a certified professional ballroom dance instructor and has competed professionally as well as Pro-Am with Students in Dance Sport competitions, earning him a Top Teacher Award.

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