Rome Slater · Owner & Studio Director

Rome has been dancing for 25 years, and his love for movement shows in every class he teaches. His training spans a wide range of styles: Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop, Ballet, Lyrical, and Contemporary, plus all five International Latin dances. He's also an accomplished West Coast Swing champion and was named a California Swing Dance Hall of Fame Rising Star.

In 2013, Rome founded Creative Culture Dance Academy in San Jose with a simple belief: we are dancers first. He wanted a studio where technique and creativity grow side by side, and where every student, from a first-time two-year-old to a seasoned competitor, feels like part of a family. Today CCDA calls Campbell home and serves families across the South Bay.

At CCDA, Rome teaches Jazz, Tumbling, Lyrical, and Contemporary, and leads the studio's competition team. Some of his favorite classes are with the youngest dancers in Creative Cuties, Creative Munchkins, and Combo, where he gets to spark a lifelong love of dance from the very first step.

Laura Sefchovich

Laura Sefchovich · Ballet Instructor

Laura began her training at the Escuela Nacional de Danza in Mexico City and continued her Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) training in the Bay Area. She studied at Jacob's Pillow and Boston Ballet School, majored in Dance at the Boston Conservatory, and performed with Santa Clara Ballet, San Jose Dance Theater, and Company C Contemporary Ballet, among others.

Laura has taught ballet at studios throughout the Bay Area, including Western Ballet and Gloria Mohr International Ballet School, and served as ballet mistress for Teen Dance Company and The Dance Company. Her deep classical foundation and background as a certified classical Pilates instructor give her students exceptional strength, alignment, and technique.

At CCDA, Laura teaches Ballet, guiding dancers in the classical technique that strengthens every other style they study.