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To Spend A Day With Zay?

Dance training, events, and brand collaborations, all led by Seattle choreographer Isaiah Rashaad.

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Make Moves

Dance

Beginner heels series, performance training, drop-in classes, and more.

Open the door → Make Memories

Events

Host your event, bachelorette, or corporate offsite with energy that fills the space.

Open the door → Make Statements

Brand

Brand collaborations, content, and partnerships that fit Zay's audience.

Open the door → Become a BAE

Zay's BAEs

Zay's advanced training and performance team, available to hire for your event.

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Choreographer's Corner

Zay's podcast with Kristen Grace on art, dance, business, and life. Start anywhere.

Episode 1

Conversations About Art, Dance, Business and Life

How KG and Zay met, and why they built a space for beginner and intermediate dancers to thrive.

Listen on Spotify → Episode 2

Preparing for Performance Opportunities

Getting your first performance opportunity and booking your first job: where preparation meets opportunity.

Listen on Spotify → Episode 3

Advanced to Professional

What advanced dancers need to go pro: the professional package, auditions, agents, and getting paid.

Listen on Spotify → Episode 4

Industry Insights with Cameron Lee

What actually makes a great dance educator, and why teaching choreography alone is not enough.

Listen on Spotify → Full Series

Choreographer's Corner on Spotify

The full podcast with KG and Zay. Follow to catch every episode.

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Questions about training, an event, a collaboration, or a brand partnership? Send a note and Zay will get back to you.

What's Running

Train, Drop In, or Book Zay

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Meet Zay

Isaiah Rashaad

Zay is a Seattle choreographer who builds two things at the same time: a room where real confidence can grow, and technique taught with real rigor. Neither one runs ahead of the other.

His students walk in shy and walk out doing things they swore they couldn't do. The promise is not perfection. It is transformation, and the kind of fun that makes people want to show up week after week.

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Isaiah Rashaad, choreographer and founder of A Day With Zay and Zay's BAEs, Seattle
The Method

Rigorous and Warm.

Every ZB class is building two things at the same time. One is a room where real confidence can grow. The other is technique, taught with real rigor. Neither one runs ahead of the other, and you need both to move like you mean it.

One pillar is the room itself: safe, no shame, full of permission to try. Zay names the fear out loud so nobody has to carry it alone, and level is set by what a dancer can demonstrate, not by how long they've been showing up. It is how someone can stand shy in the corner on day one and be rolling on the floor, hair flipping, by day six.

The other pillar is technique, built in a deliberate order. The foundation and the bevel as home base. Conditioning so you are steady, not wobbling. Texture from day one, then walks, then floorwork once you've earned it, and a small first combo to bring it together. Nothing rushed, nothing faked, and always the fun found right there in the foundation.

Zay teaching at the ballet barre in the studio, demonstrating the foundations
How It Builds

One System, Foundation to Performance

1

Foundation

The bevel, pointed feet, and the line from hip to toe. Your home base.

2

Conditioning

Ankle and core strength so you are steady, not wobbling.

3

Movement

Walks, transitions, floorwork, and turns, built on the foundation.

4

Expression

Texture, intention, and presence. The feel that makes it yours.

5

Performance

Putting it together with presence, and finding the fun.

What They Say

Hear From Dancers Just Like You

"Isaiah's movement style is empowering and is exactly what I needed to improve my confidence in dancing and otherwise."

Nikhila

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"He won my doubting and jaded heart. I am grateful for you, Zay."

May

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"I really loved the mindset taught alongside the technique. I began to learn not only how to dance and walk in heels, but also the confidence to believe I could."

Nicole

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"I can't believe how empowered I feel wearing and dancing in heels now."

Niharika

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"He is energetic and knowledgeable about all things movement."

Arya

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"Isaiah's positive uplifting energy and his choreo. He's the best."

Angela

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"Living out your 'hairbrush in the mirror' fantasy as an artist."

That is the energy he builds.

Whether you are stepping into heels for the first time or pitching to industry stages, you will move like you mean it.

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