Marla Wilson
Queen Diva
Owner/Instructor
Of course when I was younger it wasn't just hip hop classes. I of course would move on to cheer throughout my junior high years and high school. I made the Varsity Cheer team my freshman and sophomore year of high school. My Junior year I made the decision to change schools and join the dance team adding to my dance resume by making team captain my Senior year. I would then graduate and come back and coach the same dance team years later. I found passion and love for coaching and decided to continue. I later coached competitive cheer, dance and hip hop competition teams. Coaching Hip Hop for Soul All Starz and Ultimate Hip Hop.
I would soon learn that I wanted to keep dancing for myself and missed it. This is where the journey of dance and fitness would come to light. The beginning... a place of staying fit and dancing too? OMG.. my happy place. Zumba would be the beginning and quick end for me. I Started teaching Zumba 15 years ago.. taught for 2 years and then went right to Dance Fit to Dance Fit with Marla and then Dance Fit Divas with Marla. I wanted to expand so it was time for some of my own choreography... time to brand out. Redefining Diva with Marla was born. I WAS HOME!! Mixing it with my own choreo was key. Women felt at home, safe and they were smiling and loving their new freedom to shake whatever they had at any time they felt like it. NO judging, No worries. Just fun and fitness. A home to call their own... The beginning of Redefining Diva with Marla was just starting....
My name is Marla Wilson-Doan. Founder and Owner of Redefining Diva with Marla. My passion for life starts at a very young age. My passion would start with wanting to find a place to belong. Wanting to find that one thing that sets me apart from everyone else. The one thing that I could be great at.. the one thing that I could breathe in and out with. It was Dance. Dance would become everything to me.
I learned at a very young age that music and dance were my freedoms. I would not be bullied anymore. I would not be made fun of because of my chubby belly, thick thighs and big butt. Dance... this was where I would excel and feel safe. This was my home. I made people smile through dance, I made people happy through dance, I made people feel great through dance.... Most importantly... I was happy with dance and I was learning to give back through dance and fitness.
Ballet would be the beginning for me at just 3 years old and for 8 years I would grow. I of course then fell in love with tap, point, jazz and my favorite hip hop...