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Carol Zee, Artistic Director and Dance Instructor:
Carol has
been everybody dance!’s artistic director since its inception in
2000. She is a dancer, teacher and choreographer and has been a
featured member of Especially Tap Chicago and the Jazz Tap
Ensemble of Los Angeles. She danced with Gregory Hines at the
Ford Theater in Los Angeles, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas
Brothers in New York and was Halle Berry's tap teacher for the
HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Her teaching experience
includes master classes, conventions, college residencies,
workshops and dance festivals. Carol oversees everybody
dance!’s weekly classes, determines curriculum, hires faculty and
teaches six of the program’s tap classes.
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Chippy Zuniga, Assistant Artistic Director/Dance
Education Coordinator and Dance Instructor: Chippy
was hired in 2006 to strengthen the school−day dance
programs by more fully integrating dance instruction
throughout the academic curriculum. Chippy has a strong
background in dance education, including a BA in World
Arts and Culture with a dance emphasis from UCLA and
an MA from New York University with concentration in
Dance Education K−12.
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She previously served as the Childhood Dance Director and
dance instructor at the Harvey
Cavalier Camp, Park Pre− School and the River School in New York and taught dance at the
Westwood Charter School and the Faith Intercommunity Church in Whittier, California. She has
danced with the Kaleidoscope Dance Company, the Pasadena Civic Ballet Company and the
UCLA Undergraduate Dance Company. Chippy co−wrote the dance curriculum for
the ABC
School District and currently teaches at Hollywood School House. In addition to her role as
Dance Education Coordinator, Chippy also teaches integrative movement and choreography for
everybody dance!
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Leslie Geldbach has been dancing for 25 years and
has done
musicals, videos, movies, concerts, industrials, television and
choreography. Leslie’s dance credits include working with Reba
McEntire, LL. Cool J., Jim Carrey, Kirsten Dunst and The Rock. She
was assistant choreographer for Reba McEntire’s “Girls Night Out”
Tour, Latin Singer Chayanne’s 1997−1998 Tours and Leanne
Rhymes tours and live performances. She has done videos for
Smash Mouth, Elton John and Garth Brooks. Her musicals credits
include Sisterella and The Fab Four; her movie credits include The
Majestic and Scorpion King; and her television credits include The
Hughley’s, Hit me Baby One More Time, and Time of Your Life with
Jennifer Love Hewitt. Leslie has recently choreographed for Alex
Borstein from the Family Guy, Andy Dick as Daphnie Agulara and
Will Wheaton. Leslie continues to train in the art of dance and give
back to her community by teaching for the scholarship program at
the Performing Arts Center, Encore Dance Studio and master
classes in the United States and Canada. Leslie teaches jazz for
everybody dance!
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Samantha Giron is the artistic director of Samantha
Giron Dance
Project. She earned an MFA in Choreography from California
Institute of the Arts in 2006 and a BA in Dance from Mills College in
2001. She has performed the choreography of Mark Morris, Tere
O'Connor and Scott Wells. Her choreography has been staged at
The Key Club, The Electric Lodge, San Francisco's ODC, The Vic
Lopes Auditorium, The Santa Cruz Dance Gallery, Oakland's Elihu
Harris State Building, Venue Nine, Oakland Box, Burning Man
Festival, L.A. Decompression Festival, the Emerging
Choreographer's Showcase Festival, Stella Adler Theater, San
Francisco's Project Artaud Theater for the WestWave Dance
Festival, Bootleg Theater, The Elephant Theater, BOXeight Studio,
The Boulder Fringe Festival, Casa del Prado Theater, The Santa Fe
Complex and Highways Performance Space. She co-choreographed
the dance film Hotel Scopeli which won a Kodak Grant award.
Music video credits include "The Kids" by People. Samantha is on
the dance faculty at L.A. Community College and teaches modern
and ballet for everybody dance!
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Katie Grubiak has performed and collaborated with
the Liam
Harney Irish Dance Company, the Afro−Cuban and Afro−Brazilian
company Soul Beat, the Irish rock band Young Dubliners, Irish
percussionist David Page and Irish musician Mick Moloney. She has
toured across the U.S. and Europe. Her dance background
encompasses classical as well as cultural dance forms and her
mission has been in rediscovering their connection. Katie is most
known for her fusion style of Irish dance, both dancing and
choreographing for stage and TV. She has also worked with the
Los Angeles Opera in its sold out performances of Manon. Most
recently, Katie danced for Sue Wong’s Spring 2008 Mercedes−Benz
fashion show alongside fellow colleagues Shannon Harris and
Chippy Zuniga. In addition to her career as a dance teacher, Katie
works as a public health Registered Dietitian. Katie teaches ballet
for everybody dance!
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Shannon Harris holds a Political and Social Thought
degree from
the University of Virginia, where she was the school's Dance Team
Captain and a principle performer with the Virginia Dance Company.
She has also choreographed for the Hobart Shakespeareans, an
internationally renowned public elementary school class that
performs musical versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Shannon
teaches modern dance and Reading−In−Motion for everybody
dance!
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Meredith Huddleston holds a BA in Ballet Pedagogy
from Brenau
University in Gainesville, Georgia and a MFA from New York
University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where she was a
scholarship student. She began her ballet training at the age of
ten with Emily Caruso and has received additional training from
Tom Pazik, Diane Callahan, Jackie Villamil, Jolinda Menendez,
Douglas Becker and Cassandra Pfifer. In New York, she studied
extensively with and danced in original works by Milton Myers,
Sean Curran, David Dorfman and Doug Varonne. Meredith
performed in New York at the Downtown Arts Festival and
DANCENOW, at the Joyce SoHo, the 92nd Street YMCA, St. Mark's
Church and P.S.122. Meredith taught ballet, jazz and modern
dance for 15 years throughout the Southeast and New York City
and currently teaches ballet for everybody dance!
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Keeley “LocknKey” Kaukimoce is a world-renowned
female
locker and street dancer and is one of the only original-style
locking teachers of this generation. She discovered street dance
while watching music videos at the age of ten in her small Garland,
Texas home. She grew up with an affection for all forms of street
dance including locking, popping, b-boying, party dancing and
freestyle. She received training from original locker Greg
Campbellock Jr. and Flomaster of Footwork Fanatics. She is
currently a member of the female crew, the BeatFreaks, and a
core member of the Groovaloos. She has worked in numerous music
videos with The Black Eyed Peas, Missy Elliott, Christina Aguilera
and Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins. She also appeared in “You Got
Served,” “Legally Blonde” and recently appeared on the Teen
Choice Awards in the M&M cru. Keeley is now teaching original-
style locking techniques and her own choreographed hip-hop, with
a funky old school flare. She is very passionate about keeping first
generation locking alive and trying her best to educate the youth
on the history and origins of various street dances. Keeley teaches
hip-hop for everybody dance!
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Astrid Voss Lew grew up in Switzerland and received
her
professional training at the Geneva Dance Center in Switzerland.
She also studied on scholarship at School of American Ballet in
New York. During her training, she competed in numerous
International Ballet Competitions with several gold medal
performances in Houlgate, France (1996); Geneva, Switzerland
(1997); Grasse, France (1997); and Nîmes, France (1998). She has
danced professionally with Pennsylvania Ballet in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and was hired by the Royal Danish Ballet in
Copenhagen, Denmark in 1999. At the Royal Danish Ballet she
performed in works by Bournonville, Balanchine, Peter Martins and
others. Since her retirement from performing, Astrid has graduated
Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California,
Marshall School of Business. She was a Founding Board Member of
the Los Angeles Ballet and has taught ballet at The Los Angeles
Ballet School, The Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, and The Los
Angeles County High School for the Arts. Astrid teaches ballet for
everybody dance!
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Sarah Lozoff was trained at the Miami Conservatory,
South
Florida's oldest ballet school, under the direction of Thomas
Armour. She graduated from Miami's nationally renowned
performing arts high school, New World School of the Arts, where
she studied ballet, modern and Caribbean dance techniques Gerri
Houlihan, Peter London, Bambi Anderson and Judith Newman.
Sarah was a founding member of Ballet Rosario Suarez, where she
performed both soloist & principal roles in a full classical ballet
repertoire and performed in works choreographed and staged by
both Fernando Bujones & Rosario "Charin" Suarez. She has taught
creative movement, pre-ballet and ballet for over a decade and
helped to create the current pre-ballet syllabus for the Miami
Conservatory. Sarah teaches ballet for everybody dance!
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Kathleen Mangan was born in New York and raised
in Los
Angeles. She has danced professionally from coast to coast and
internationally, performing in industrials and musical theatre such
as Cabaret, Oliver! and A Chorus Line. After graduating from UCLA
in 2002, she danced in Japan for a year and then moved to the
east coast to work as a dancer for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets.
Kathleen teaches ballet for everybody dance!
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Vera Ninkovic was born in Perth, Australia. She
studied classical
ballet at some of the most prestigious ballet schools in the world
on scholarship including: The National Ballet School in Sofia,
Bulgaria and the State Ballet School in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Vera
also studied with the London Studio Center in London where she
was voted Dancer of the Year in 1991 and performed in the
presence of HRH Prince Edward. She completed her training at the
Royal Ballet School in London where she received the R.A.D. Solo
Seal Award. Vera was a semi−finalist in the 1991 Prix de Lausanne
international ballet competition in Switzerland. She went on to
dance professionally with the Basel Ballet in Switzerland, touring
internationally. She also performed as a soloist with the Perth City
Ballet in Australia as well as the Los Angeles Classical Ballet at the
Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Vera has taught ballet for The
Performing Arts Center in Northridge, The Ana Cheselka Dance
Center and The Marat Daukayev School of Ballet. In addition, Vera
has produced and choreographed a number of fashion shows and
dance productions, including the 2007 spring production of Alice in
Wonderland by the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
(LACHSA). Vera is the lead ballet teacher for everybody dance!
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Aaron Porter has worked with Academy Award winner
Ron Howard
in The Grinch, Academy nominated director Christian Taylor in
Showboy (Best Film Milan Film Festival 2002) and Hinton Battle
(The Wiz, Dreamgirls). Aaron has done numerous commercials
including spots for McDonald’s, CBS, and Pepsi. His television
credits include Disney’s Phil of the Future, Disney’s in Concert
Series with B*Witched and Fame LA. Aaron has choreographed for
Jason Alexander (Seinfield, The Producers) and has professionally
trained dancers who have gone on to work with Britney Spears,
Debbie Allen, Cirque du Soleil, winners on the television series
Fame and Star Search. He has been teaching at the EDGE and
Millennium Dance Complex for the past seven years. His students
have included Jenna Elfman (EdTV), Katie Holmes (Batman Begins)
and Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under). Aaron choreographed
industrials for software giant Cisco Systems, the historic “It’s
Magic” 50th Anniversary Show at the Kodak Theatre. His
choreography can also be seen in the MGM feature film Sleepover.
Aaron has taught master classes and workshops throughout the
US and currently teaches hip−hop and jazz for everybody dance!
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Sarah Reich dances with Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated
Ladies, Jason
Samuels Smith’s tap group Anybody Can Get It and Steve Zee’s LA
Ironworks. She is a former member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble’s
Caravan Project for gifted teenage tap dancers. Sarah has worked
with Harold “Stumpy” Cromer since 2004, assisting him at the St.
Louis, Chicago and LA tap festivals, teaching his famous “Opus
One,” and taught in New York City at the Tap City and at a
Traditions In Tap workshop honoring Cromer. Sarah was chosen by
Warner Brothers to dance at the previews and world premiere of
Happy Feet at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, where she
came in first at the Happy Feet Tap Dancing Contest, winning a
trip for four to the Baltimore Zoo. Sarah received an award for
Performing Artist of the Year at the 2005 OMNI Awards, was
featured in Dance Spirit magazine’s article “20 Hot Tappers Under
20” and Dancer magazine describes how: "A small package of
dynamite talent, explodes where ever she dances." Sarah can be
seen performing in two new tap DVDs: The World Is My Drum,
volumes 1 and 2. Sarah teaches tap for everybody dance!
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Joe Schenck graduated from Northwestern University's
Theatre
program and trained at the Actors Gymnasium, Midnight Circus and
Acting Studio Chicago. He began his career in Chicago as an actor,
performing in such theaters as Chicago Shakespeare, Lookingglass
Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Porchlight Music
Theatre and Light Opera Works and sketch comedy group GayCo.
He also choreographed an original adaptation of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream with MidTangent Productions. Since moving to LA,
he has performed at LA Opera, Pasadena Playhouse and Civic Light
Opera South Bay Cities and appeared on Eli Stone on ABC. Joe now
teaches Theatre Movement at LA County High School for the Arts
and is a performer and the Director of Education for Diavolo Dance
Theatre. Joe teaches tap, ballet, theater dance, boys dance and
ballroom dance for everybody dance!
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Kristen Schifferli received her Masters Degree in
Dance Education
from New York University and currently holds a Simonson
Technique teaching Certification from Dance New Amsterdam, NYC.
She has instructed dance for the past eight years in over 30
educational institutions including elementary, professional and
studio, university, and community programs. Kristen has written
numerous articles for Dance Teacher magazine and she recently
co−wrote the ABC Unified VAPA Dance 07−08 curriculum. Her
performance credits include television appearances and
professional work on stages in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New
York City. Kristen teaches pre−ballet for everybody dance!
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