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Lisa "La Boriqua" is President of Latin Street Dancing and Director of the Chicago Latin Street Dance Company and MOSAICO student dance group. Lisa “La Boriqua” has dedicated her life to sharing the beauty of Latin culture through “street dancing” (Latin dances danced today). Lisa “La Boriqua” has shared her knowledge and passion for dancing for the last 14 years throughout the community and incorporated Latin Street Dancing in January of 1998 here in Chicago. It ha more |
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| Andres was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico from Chilean parents. Andres has been dancing since he can remember, but has been dancing Salsa specifically since he was a teenager. When Andres was 15 years old, he was invited to a Salsa party where all he remembers were that the ladies literally ran to ask the guys who knew how to dance to join them on the dance floor. Amidst all the commotion he said to himself “Whatever this is, I have to learn it!.”
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| Anniece is a professional North African Egyptian Dancer/Performer, dancing since 2002 and teaching since 2004. Because of her strong dancing ability, she was offered a position with “Khalidah’s North Afrikan Dance Experience” (KNADE – founded in 1987) touring company within her first year of training.
Anniece has performed at well known venues such as the Navy Pier Entertainment Complex (Winter Wonder Fest), Chicago Cultural Center, Belly Dancers of Color Associ more |
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| Charles Bledsoe better known throughout the Los Angeles hi-hop community as “Poppin Chuck”is a remarkable dance and visual artist who exemplifies the definition of a true school innovator. In the last decade , charles has produced an abundance of graffiti art pieces , and public murals .
His art has blessed the walls of the California African American Museum, The Latino American Museum of Los Angeles, and the Rico Gallery in santa Monica. Chuck’s natural talent more |
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| Senior Dance Instructor, Artistic Director Latin Street Dance Company, Choreographer & Dance performer.
As an Army child, Latin Street Dancing's Chris Manning grew up in many countries and with many cultures. In the early 1980s he got caught in the breakdancing fad and participated in contests in Munich and Flensburg, Germany. Upon returning to the United States he kept dancing, performing with a hip-hop dance group throughout high school. When he started, colleg more |
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| Emanuel is one of the few officially certified Salsa instructors by The Puerto Rican Department of Sports and Recreation & Puerto Rican Institute for the Development of Sports & Recreation on September 16th of 2007 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Emanuel was trained and certified by World reknown dancer, choreographer and instructor Stacey Lopez., Ruben A. Ortiz Laureano, Department Iterim Director, and Secretary David E. Bemier Rivera.
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| It all started when I went to Voodo night club back in late 2003. I saw the people dancing there and really liked how they looked on the dance floor and started thinking: "I wish I could dance like that."
I started taking classes at Latin Street Dancing in 2004. Back then, I just thought about taking a couple of basic classes so I could learn just my basics and I would be happy with that. So, as I kept taking classes and learning new stuff, I got more and more i more |
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| Full time Special Events Department coordinator and Latin Street Salsa Congreso administrator, Grisell has been in Latin Street Dancing for the last 10 years. She has been member of The Latin Street Dance Company and performed in all the Latin Dance Revues from 2001-2004 at Dance Center for Columbia College, The Athenaeum Theatre and the Chicago Theatre.
Grisell is also one of the instructors at Latin Street who has specialized in Club lessons and lessons for kid more |
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| Jeanette is of Filipino descent; she was born in the Philippines, and came to the United States when she was one-and-a-half years old. Growing up, Jeanette’s main hobby was classical piano, but she began ballet at a young age, and became more interested in jazz dance from high school onward. During her junior high years, her parents and their friends would throw parties and hire a dance instructor. Jeanette loved partnered dancing, particularly swing, but didn’t kno more |
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| In addition to years of enjoying Latin dancing socially and professionally, Johnny Rosales holds a degree in Communications and a degree in Adult Education. As one of the original founders of the Social Dance Studio in Minneapolis, Johnny has used his teaching methodologies, 15 years of teaching experience, and insightful deconstruction of the most basic elements of movement to transform the dancing of thousands of students nation-wide.
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| Jorge has been dancing since the age of 5, taking tap lessons and touching a little on ballet. At the age of 12 he completely stopped dancing and decided to play baseball. He continued to play throughout his college years for Division I at Chicago State University .
Jorge picked up salsa at the age of 22 and joined Latin Rhythms. He performed, and taught with them from 2001- until March of 2009. In 2006, Jorge started training in jazz to add to his repertoire. Fr more |
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| At the age of 8, Kimberly joined “El Grupo Ursuval” founded by Maria Clemente from Loiza, Puerto Rico. There she learned how to dance: Bomba, Plena and other Folkloric dances from Puerto Rico. With that company she began to dance for world famous puerto rican traditional musician William Cepeda. At the age of 12, Kimberly began her salsa training with David Melendez at the world famous The Starlite Dance Studio in NYC. As a part of the Starlite Dance Company, more |
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| Luis has been dancing Salsa for the last 12 years.
He is the current Director Urban Vibe in Production and Another Vibe (Student team). Luis is also a dancer & choregrapher for Urban Vibe Pro Team.
In 2004, Luis was one of the founders of Descarga Caribe Dance Company with then director Sekou McMiller.
Luis has done extensive travelling & teaching in many Salsa congresses, including... Miami, Orlando, Toronto, New York, Acapulco, Los Angeles and Curacao, am more |
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| Mike Garcia began dancing salsa in northern Italy, while in the Marines, in 1996.
Continued dancing in Chicago with various schools, including Latin Street Dancing in 2000. Became a member of the Chicago Latin Street Dance Company and Performed in various venues with LSD.
Started to dance "ny on2" in 2002. Performed in the Chicago Salsa Congress with Descarga Caribe, and also Saladin. Traveled all over the country and Canada to study salsa and mambo with world r more |
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| After graduating from college, Marcos and his friends decided to go out one summer's night to the famous Club 720. He heard the nightclub had one floor that would exclusively play Salsa music, so he went straight there. Granted, he didn't take a single Salsa class, but he was still confident in his ability to dance well. After all, he was Latin! Then he danced with a young lady who would permanently change the way he thought about Salsa dancing.
Curious, h more |
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| Marissa is one of Latin Street Dancing's Hip Hop and dance experts. Together with dance partners Nora & Elena formed the dance trio "NME" which has performed at several Latin Street's events.
Marissa is currently teaching Hip Hop and Ladies dance styling! She is also a very active member in The chicago Latin Street Dance Company.
Marissa's Dance resume includes:
- Attended University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Five College Dance Department)
- Graduated wit more |
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| Martha is a certified ZUMBA Instructor (ZIN) encouraging others to "Ditch the Workout and Join the Party!" When these two energizing components came together via ZUMBA, it propelled her to want to extend her passion for health, fitness, dance and fun to others!
The feeling of artistic expression through music and dance started for her at the age of six. After a number of school dance performances in her younger years, she pursued her interest for business and the more |
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| Monica was born and raised in Chicago, of Lebanese and Hispanic descent. Dancing and listening to a wide variety of music - (from Rock to Olga Guillot, Dean Martin, and Charles Asnavour, to name a few) was always a meaningful part of daily home life, and family parties. Monica was first introduced to Belly Dance by her beloved late mother, Suad Saade, playing Arabic music at home and taking her to see live performances at various clubs and restaurants. She was mesm more |
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| I'm a 100% full blooded Filipino. I was born in San Matias Philippines, and moved to Chicago with my family when I was 5 years old. I don't recollect ever having any interest in dancing at a young age. During my freshman year in high school, I dabbled at that current trend of "Break Dancing". It lasted about 6 months. I never felt the desire to pursue any other dance styles for about 15 years after that.
Not unit 1997 did I feel the need to dance, or at least the more |
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| Nina began dancing Argentine tango at the University of Chicago where she is now a board member and the music librarian for the U of C Argentine Tango Club. There she has helped to orchestrate lessons, workshops, milongas and the annual Mini Tango Festival.
She performed as part of the show SELF(ish) at Links Hall in February 2010 and has also performed at Mandel Hall, Milonga “Che” and Milonga Cielo around the city of Chicago. An active member of the Tango Guer more |
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| Dance Instructor & Asst. Artistic Director for The Chicago Latin Street Dance Company.
Directly from Mexico City, Nora took her first dance classes at the tender age of 5. She danced hawaiian dance for about 3 years. At age 16, she took her first Jazz lesson with Alberto Olivar in Mexico. While still in Mexico, she later took workshops with Kirby Reed at Ema Pulido's dance studio.
Nora later moved to Chicago to start her ballet, Jazz, Modern & Hip Hop training more |
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| Born as a sheltered child Sengvilay Aphay was always seeking a way to express himself and during an airing of “Beat Street” he was able to find his calling through b-boying or commonly known as “breakdancing.” Started off in his parents basement he taught himself the basics of breakdancing and little did he know that in the future it would take him places he would have never been able to reach.
After 16 years now known as “Kid Jungle” he has become an establishe more |
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| Although Stephanie has taken some time off of dancing now and then, she has been dancing since she could walk and cannot manage to give it up! So after years of attending and greatly enjoying Latin Street Dancing’s studio parties, she finally decided to join the LSD team to keep dance in her life as more than just a hobby.
While Stephanie has an extensive background in ballet, jazz, hip hop, and other forms of dance that includes teaching, choreographing, compet more |
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| "Touba has been performing and teaching different dance styles almost her life and has most recently focused on Latin dance. She started her training at Latin Street Dancing as a student and member of the student dance company, Mosaico, and has continued on to teach at the studio as well as perform with the Latin Street Dancing Pro Team.
Touba's love for the performing arts started at the age of four and has grown ever since. As she grew and became involved in more |
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| Wo "polacorumbero" Romanowski was born in England and was raised in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. He started his interest in the congas back in High School, where he learned some basic congas in the Tuley H.S Steel Band. Wo performs regularly with his band "The Business", and also with many local Latin musicians.
His nickname was given to him by Cuban musician Chucho Valdez when he witnessed him playing his Congas!
Wo currently teaches " more |
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| Yaasha Abraham is the Dance Director of Passistas Samba Dance and the Director of Education and Youth Outreach for Planeta Azul Brazilian Entertainment. Her mission in both positions is to educate the public about the beauty, richness, and diversity of Brazilian culture through music and dance.
With a total of 11 years of performance experience, Yaasha began her journey in Brazilian dance 5 years ago under the tutelage of Dill Costa, a samba queen from Rio de Ja more |
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