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About

Owner, A Perfect Wedding Dance®
Wedding Dance Choreographer, Certified Ballroom Instructor, NADTA, FANDA

Welcome 

Kim Sakren

Owner, Kim Sakren is an award-winning, certified, Ballroom dance instructor with more than two decades of wedding dance teaching and choreography experience. With a diverse background from studies in Ballet, Classic Jazz, Afro-Jazz, Latin Jazz, Street Jazz, Broadway dance, Tap, Flamenco and Clogging, as well as instruction in Lyrical and Modern Dance styles. She was also a Company member of Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, Dance Menagerie and scholarship student Fusion Dance Company. She has been an adjunct instructor for College of Southern Nevada for over 20 years teaching Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Country. UNLV  instructor for Continuing Education. Certified Ballroom instructor Northern American Dance Teachers Association and Fred Astaire National Dance Association.  Instructor for Fred Astaire and Arthur Murray dance studios.City of Las Vegas and Sun City Summerlin. Co-Owner, Steps In Time Ballroom Dance Studio, Farmington, Ct. 

 

​Kim believes wedding couples need customized service. That's why A Perfect Wedding Dance® offers wedding dance lessons perfectly suited to your wedding vision, personalities and capabilities. Whether you desire simply elegant, romantic, humorous or "out of the dance box" choreography. Known for her warm, encouraging, fun and “get down to business” teaching style, you will benefit from Kim's years of experience, helping you to learn a more creative dance, in less time! 

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"I am one of the first to pioneer the popularity of The Wedding Dance, since 1996. Perfecting my style of teaching and choreography  for over 2 decades. I have a new fresh take on traditional Wedding Dances". Kim is a trail-blazer! Among the first inspiring the trend of the, non-traditional Wedding Dance. Also, teaching wedding-detailed™  dance lessons. 

"I specialize and love teaching couples with little to no dance experience!

Teaching and choreographing over 3000 Wedding Couples and counting". She can't wait to add you to the APWD family, and make your special day something your friends and family will talk about for years to come!

 

Well + Good Article featuring Kim Sakren and A Perfect Wedding Dance​

9 Ways To Calm Your First Dance Nerves, Even if You Have Two Left Feet

Kim's Ballroom Step "Hack"

Kim has found through the years that many of the songs her wedding couples have used for their wedding dances do not fit traditional ballroom dances.  So she “Hacked” a ballroom step pattern and tempo and now "Kim’s Hack" suits many songs, short timelines, gowns, shoes and small dance floors. Creating intuitive innovative choreography, steps, rhythms and patterns.  Couples often say that learning a choreographed dance with Kim of A Perfect Wedding Dance® made their wedding dance the spotlight of their wedding. They are still receiving compliments years later.

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Rehearsal skirts, veils and jackets provided!

Specializing in Styles:

  • Ballroom: Waltz, Foxtrot. Tango, Slow Dance

  • Latin: Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Rumba, Cha Cha

  • Swing: East and West Coast, Jitterbug, Lindy Hop

  • Country: Two-Step, Country Waltz, Country Cha Cha, Nightclub 2-Step

  • Popular & Trending Dance Moves

  • Iconic Dance Moves Through the Decades

  • Hip Hop, Broadway, Jazz, Tap

Has Been Seen and Featured in...

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  • "The View" Las Vegas Review Journal

  • Fox 5 Las Vegas

  • KLAS-TV  CBS 8 News Now "Wedding Week"

  • Las Vegas Woman Magazine

  • Luxury Magazine featuring Las Vegas Local Wedding couples

  • "Great Wedding Tips from The Experts" Book

  • Beautiful Bride Magazine Las Vegas Real Weddings Tedd Florendo Las Vegas CBS Chief Meteorologist and wife Jennifer

  • Vegas.com representing "The Wedding Dance" for Las Vegas

  • Presenter and Guest Speaker, TISOH The International School of Hospitality, Wedding and Event Certification

  • NBC Realty TV Show "Race To The Altar"

  • "Say Yes To The Dress"  Baseball Wives, Major League Baseball Pitcher Chad Gaudin and wife Syndal

  • Rachel Ray Valentines Day Special

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Wedding Chamber of Commerce
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Wedding Wire
8 News Now
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Success Story

When Kim started A Perfect Wedding Dance®, it was among the first companies in the country to specialize in Wedding Detailed Dance Lessons™, and is now the longest running wedding dance company in the United States.

Today, A Perfect Wedding Dance® is one of the most recommended wedding dance studios by wedding couples and wedding professionals. 

 

"There is no greater honor to have had some of my wedding couples travel from so far away to learn their Wedding Dance from A Perfect Wedd.  Some have traveled from Northern California, Southern California, Arizona, Utah, Pahrump, Laughlin, Boulder City, Colorado, Chicago, Texas, Washington, Ohio, N.Carolina, New York, New Jersey, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, Colorado, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and even Italy  & China!"

Since 1996 teaching expressive, fun and surprising wedding dances with inspiring choreography to last a lifetime.

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