I have many different styles of dance that I’m interested in. I’ve trained primarily in ballet and contemporary, and in ballroom (salsa), West African dance, traditional Balinese dance, hip hop and street styles, and more. All these styles make me a stronger dance and choreographic artist.

I choose primarily the styles of contemporary and ballet because I felt the most liberated in these forms. There is so much that can be interpreted, from a very literal or abstract point of view.

I started getting serious with dance around the age of 12. I knew then that I wanted to pursue a career out of this, travel the world with it, connect with people, and educated myself on various styles to find something new in movement.

This is a hard question to answer, there are so many! One of my favourite dancing experiences was dancing in Ohad Naharin’s Decadance with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. I can’t remember when I stopped thinking and started feeling the moment. As tiring as his work is, as it requires all 5 of your senses to be one hundred percent, It felt as though I was gliding through space with ease. It feels so nice when you can reach that in any work – the moment you stop forcing it and just immerse your entire being into the world the choreographer has created.

I would love to work for so many people, as there are a lot of interesting voices to dance with and for. One person is Damien Jalet – he has a very interesting eye and I’d be intrigued to dive into a process with him to see where our crafts could potentially meet.

Dance is the extreme extension of who I am – the fullest expression. It is the hidden door into my soul, and with each process I go through as a dance artist, I can unlock secrets passages in myself that often can come as a surprise. I get to know myself and other people through this art form – it’s beautiful.

I like both equally. I love both because you can have live dialogue in real time with an audience or a group of artists while you’re on stage or at the front of a studio. Sometimes you’re unsure of how the exchange will be or where it takes you.

I would be an assassin or a secret spy. I love to move stealthily, quietly, and with force. It would be fun to travel the world and go out on secret mission. Plus, the disguises would be the most fun part, in constantly shifting personas.

I’m curious, imaginative, playful, silly, creative, warm, bold. Understanding myself and the world around me is important. I believe fluidity equals expansion. I love cooking, traveling, surfing, adventure.

Still playful, still curious, and laughing more. I see myself constantly operating from a place of joy, doing things on my own terms. I am with my partner – living in Bali. I am still choreographing for various companies and institutions – still learning – still vibing, and enjoying what life presents and am positively immersed in it.

I wouldn’t say I have one specific style of dancing. Throughout my life I have trained in Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Heels and some Latin styles that have morphed me into the dancer I am today. If I had to pick one style of dancing, I like doing the most, I would have to say its Jazz.

I would pick Jazz because it borrows cultural elements from so many different diasporas of dance and it’s mixed into one style. Jazz combines elements from ballet, Latin dances, and African American dances. I say it’s one of the most versatile dance styles because it requires very high technical training and you need to have the dynamic, sharpness and grounding required to dance other dance styles besides ballet, in order to execute it well and give it the necessary textures.

I started dancing at age 13. This is considered pretty late in the dance world as many people start at the age of four or five. I had done some theatre in my school back in Colombia when I was pretty young, and when I was about 12 or 13, I got put into dance after telling my parents I wanted to branch out and start going to extracurricular classes outside of my school.

When I got put into dance class, I stared training in more commercial styles at first, such as jazz and hip hop at a dance school back in Colombia. When I was 14, I went to a summer intensive at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles, and this made me realize if I wanted to become a professional dance artist, I would have to train technically and in many more styles. After this, I started training in Ballet at a local ballet school called Andrea Wolff Ballet back in Medellin, Colombia. A year after this, after much research done, I found an arts boarding school called ‘Idyllwild Arts Academy’ in California. After auditioning to finish my high school at Idyllwild Arts, I packed my bags and moved to California, where I became a dance major while still finishing my academics at this boarding school. This was the first time in my life where I was intensely training in ballet and contemporary every single day. I am glad for this experience, because even though I never wanted to be a ballet dancer, it gave me a tremendous amount of technique and skill I had to catch up on for starting dance at such a late age.

After graduating high school at Idyllwild, I was admitted into The University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, under the direction of Jodie Gates and artistic residence of William Forsythe. The four years of training were a huge highlight in my early career because getting to train with people like Jodie Gates, William Forsythe and Desmond Richardson, as well as living in Los Angeles where I could take all different commercial dance style classes, morphed me into the dancer I am today. Getting to perform Balanchine ballets and Forsythe pieces, as well as getting to dance in heels, and do musical theatre, showed me all different corners and possibilities in the artistic world that sparked a huge interest in me.

I believe I am still relatively early in my career, but I would have to say that dancing with Mariah Carey was definitely a big highlight. Never in a million years, when I was living and starting to dance back home in Colombia, would I have thought I would have the honour to be a part of one of her projects. I will always be grateful for this opportunity and for the things I learned by watching her do her thing!

Besides this, I must say that I am very proud of a series of concept videos I did back home in Colombia during quarantine. Even though this was technically not a job, these videos fed me creatively as an artist because I got to direct them, conceptualize them, choreograph them and dance in them. These series of videos made me realize that I can be more than just a dancer and that I find the relationship between movement and a camera very interesting. After exploring this field, I learned that I wanted to dance and work more in the film/TV side of the industry.

Not really!

Currently I am working on a West Side Story production that is going to tour for a couple weeks, so a day in my life for the past four months has consisted into waking up around 7:30am, going to the gym, and then showing up to rehearsal at 10:00am. I rehearse till 6:00pm and then I either go home and relax or go take a masterclass if a choreographer I really enjoy is teaching. If I am not working on a specific project, I usually try to go to the gym every day and take a dance class, as well as having time to go to my acting classes which I take once a week at Lesly Khan studios in Hollywood.

I believe William Forsythe has impacted my journey as a dancer because he changed my perspective on ballet. I had just come from Idyllwild where I was mostly doing classical ballet every day, and then at USC, getting to see how he pushed the boundaries of ballet into neo classical and broke the rules this established dance style had created blew my mind. His curiosity and improvisational technologies that he uses to choreograph his ballets can really be applied to any dance style. It’s a different way of moving and a different way of approaching dance.

Even though dance can be strenuous and painful at times, think of it as just movement. I think when I started to appreciate the way I moved, dance became very personal to me. We are all human beings and we all move in different ways. Learn how your body personally moves and make the most out of it by loving it, training it, and exposing it to different things! There is nothing that I love more than playing with different dance styles, rhythms and aesthetics and putting them in my own body with my own movement and skillset.

I hope that 10 years from now I am still living in Los Angeles as a more established artist. As I mentioned before, I want to start transitioning more into dance on film and TV and hopefully acting too. My dream would be to get to act as a dancer on TV, where I am not just a ‘body’ but I can build a character through movement, and dialogue.

I started my dance training in Ballet, Contemporary and Modern, but when I continued training at my local Dance School in Dresden (Germany) the focus was clearly on Contemporary and Jazz. At 17, I started a professional musical theatre program in Hamburg where we were mostly trained in Ballet and Theatre Jazz. Missing Contemporary dance and wanting to explore more styles of dance, to tap into my full potential, I moved to NYC. I am currently specializing in Contemporary/Ballet and am curious to develop my very own technique which will be a combination of all the styles I love.

As a child I always admired and loved passionate, and expressive dance pieces. It fascinated me how dancers managed to build a connection with the audience and transported emotions through a piece. Contemporary and Jazz styles are very good tools to express (oneself) and tell a story. For me it was always more about the way people danced instead of the style. I could fall in love with every style if a performance made me feel something.

My parents realized very early how much I loved moving to music and when I was four years old, I had built enough courage to attend my very first Ballet class. My local dance school in Dresden offered plenty of opportunities to study pieces and to perform them on stage. In fact, we had lots of shows, which is why we had to learn very early how to express and transport emotions through movement. The director of my former dance school was a huge inspiration to me, it seemed like she could choreograph any story she wanted to tell. At some point though, I realized that I’d need a more technical training to turn my passion to my profession.

At my Musical Theatre School, I booked a touring show with a solo piece and had the honour of performing one of my very first original choreographies as a professional dancer at theatres across the north of Germany. It was a contemporary piece, and the first show was an incredible and vulnerable experience. Dancing alone with live musicians is pure magic!

One of the choreographers that inspired me to move to NYC is Nicholas Palmquist. Working with him would be an absolute dream, and I find his unique style of combining Jazz and Contemporary elements very innovative. But there are so many amazing dancers and choreographers around the world that I’d like to work with or for. However, I’d also really enjoy working for James Kinney, one of the best Theatre Jazz choreographers I know.

Dance is my safe place. It’s where I can be free and vulnerable without getting hurt. It’s also my way of expressing what can’t be expressed through words. I was always searching for other artistic ways to express myself, which is what drew me to the performing arts, acting and singing. But dancing is my natural element. I feel very grateful to make it my profession and to share it with the world.

At this moment in time, I prefer performing because there still is so much more to learn and to explore. Also, especially during Covid I realized how much I missed feeling this very special energy of performing in front of an audience. However, I love teaching and it makes me understand more about dance itself, our bodies, and the bodies of individual dancers at different ages.

A psychologist and author.

I am a curious artist, discovering the miracles and beauty of life, creating to inspire and make the world a little bit better.

I see myself still choosing this beautiful job every single day. One big wish of mine is to develop my own style/technique and to choreograph pieces as well as dancing for a company. There are a lot of possibilities that my curiosity could lead me to in ten years, but I’d love to do a lot of collaborations with different artists, and I want to help make the dance industry a better place.

I don’t really fit into the box of a specific style. My movement is influenced by various styles of hip hop like Popping, Waving, KRUMP, and breaking, as well as Ballet, Contemporary, and Modern.

I dance the way that I dance because my mind and body have many different stories to tell. Some lovely, delicate, and enthralling, and others rough, loud, and shocking. This is why I couldn’t ever settle with just doing one style. I find that I am able to reach new heights, unlock my greater potential, and tell stories in a more flushed out and intricate way by mixing different movement ideas.

I started dancing around 2007. I had initially been inspired to dance after watching You Got Served and Save The Last Dance. I was also pulled to dance after attending a few school dances where I was always in admiration of the kids who had enough courage to get their backs up off the wall and hit the dance floor, because I certainly was not one of them. The true shift happened when I watched the KRUMP documentary Rize, the freedom of movement and rawness of self-expression that this style of dance illustrated was the gate and key that unlocked my passion for both movement and dance.

My earliest and most memorable dance experience was my first ever performance. My friends from school and I had come together to build a dance crew. We had been dancing only for a few months when it was announced that our school would be hosting a talent show. Though we were very nervous, we decided that it would be a good opportunity to show off what we had been doing. I personally wanted to do the show so that I could prove to everyone in school that I was a real bad ass, cool cat who was out of this world, so that they would all be my friends and put me on a pedestal. What made this performance so memorable was that at the end of our set, when the entire audience broke their silence and rose to a roar, my need for their acceptance and admiration faded away! All that I was left with was the understanding that I was able to be a part of and help facilitate a deep feeling of joy that was being felt unanimously throughout the room. Though it took me a few years before I could trust the feeling, I like to think that this was the moment I found purpose in spreading love and joy through dance.

There are so many people and companies, it’s hard to choose just one.

I believe that dance can disarm the defences of the psyche and can speak directly to the viewers heart. By doing this, it can help open them up in ways that only art can. Dance to me means a way to communicate, to tell stories, a way to share and express my understanding of things, and a way to make meaningful and long lasting change.

I truly love to do both. I feel that both stir the mind and awaken the heart in different ways and they feel equally valuable to me.

Either a video game designer or an interior decorator.

I am an human, who has been blessed and encouraged by so many beings who I love deeply. I share joy, love and movement!

I see myself having my own company and sharing my art all over the world through teaching and performing.

Contemporary/modern

I grew up doing various styles, but in college, I found my love for modern dance.

I started at the age of 4 when my mom enrolled me in a ballet/tap combo class.

Dance feels like an unlimited way to move my body. Dance has been a constant in my life.

I think there is a lot of pressure in the dance world to be perfect.

Even something as simple as the terminology for specific tricks or jumps is different around the world. It’s interesting to work with various dancers who have different names for different skills.

This is hard to say. I hope that multicultural styles will have more of a presence in the competitive world.

Of course, in-person learning is traditional and familiar to all of us. Online learning comes with its difficulties, but it can provide a great sense of autonomy to dancers and opportunities from all over the world.

I’ve had a few opportunities to perform in my dance career, and it was amazing. However, as my career evolves, teaching is what I am passionate about. Not only teaching students how to dance, but how to enhance their dance technique through science-based practices. That is the type of training I wish I had when I was younger.

Technique is everything. Proper technique will help prevent injury and prolong your dance career whether you’re 10 years old or 30 years old! I see a lot of young dancers who want to learn all the new tricks that circulate through the dance industry, and while they can learn how to do them, the technique and placement of the body is often compromised to get the leg higher and without any regards to safety. Working on the technical foundations will set you up for success!

Technique is everything. Proper technique will help prevent injury and prolong your dance career. From a strong technical foundation, you can then add an artistic and expressive layer to the choreography that is more sophisticated, which is ultimately the goal.

Strength training!! And listening to your body! Which means taking rest when you need it, fuelling your body with enough food for energy, or speaking up for yourself when something doesn’t feel right.

Fitness components such as strength and conditioning training will only enhance a dancer’s performance when done correctly. Ideally, this type of training will make your technique effortless, and you can train the body to adapt to different skills. It’s truly an amazing cross-training method that is highly under-utilized in the dance world.

I could see myself being a high school teacher or a researcher!

I am a certified personal dance trainer and dance scientist working with dancers of all ages to prevent injury & enhance their dance techniques!

Improvisation based movement. Much of my movement has been inspired by Gaga technique, release technique, and counter technique.

I think improvisation movement has always fascinated me. I never felt like I fit into one specific style, so I think I was naturally drawn to exploring what my own body and mind had to offer.

I started dancing at a young age and was instantly in love with it. I think I kept dancing more as a hobby, until I realised that I could make dance my living. I continued to study dance in university and I opened up to a whole new world of dance, which I never ever knew existed.

I’m fortunate to have had many amazing dance experiences. I think it’s the combination of all the experiences that makes me the dancer and person that I am today.

I am very fascinated with the work of many renowned choreographers such as Crystal Pite and Ohad Naharin. However, at this moment in my life I’m very fascinated with movement exploration and improvisation. I recently started working with Tanz Compagnie Gervasi, where I have been given the space to develop and share my own movement in the creation process. This has been an absolute dream for me!

Dance has shaped me as a human. It has broken and rebuilt me, so many times throughout my life. I used to think of dance as something separate from me, almost like clothing. But I realized in the past year, how dance is movement, movement is in the body, everyone moves their body. It’s what’s in the mind that results in how movement flows. Dance will always be a part of my life, no matter how little, large, powerful, or light the movement goes through the body.

I prefer to perform because I find the act of physically sharing movement fuels and inspires me the most. However, teaching is incredibly informative and helps me understand my own movement better.

If I wasn’t a dancer, I would have been an elementary school teacher. Dance isn’t really seen as a job where I’m from, so I really didn’t think of it as an option. Thanks to the support of my family, I had the courage to continue to study dance as a career path in university. However, I was not accepted into many of the university dance programs I applied for. I had been rejected by all, until the very last audition at the university of North Carolina School of Arts, and luckily, I was accepted there.

Ordinary with incredible passion. Through mind and body connection, I found freedom and my unique way of moving. This fuels me every day!

I see myself continuing to dance, perform, and research my own movement. I think that I would eventually like to build a company to create my own work and share my ideas through others bodies.

Classical Ballet.

I fell in love with ballet as soon as I stepped on the stage! The feeling cannot be described in words.

I started dancing when I was three years old.

Dancing in a show with Olympic champions.

I would like to dance with the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, Cesar Corrales.

Dance is my life!

I just love to dance.

A drama actress, fashion model or a businesswoman.

I love to travel. I am cheerful and energetic. I have a passion for cats and all things beautiful. I enjoy driving and food. I have been to 47 countries. My dream is to visit New Zealand one day.

I will hopefully live in a warm country, next to the sea or the ocean, with my beloved people nearby. I hope to be working with artists as a choreographer.

Ballet

Ballet has always been my favourite style of dance, where I can just be myself and enjoy.

I started dancing when I was 9 years old, in Brazil at the Bolshoi School.

Performing with my best friend at the Varna international competition which had beautiful outdoor stage.

I’d love to be in the same stage as Marianela Nunez at the Royal Opera house.

Everything. It gave me the opportunity to help my family back in Brazil.

I love both! There’s nothing better than performing in the world, you just forget about everything and enjoy. I love teaching because it allows me to give my students the experience of someone who really gets them and accepts them for who they are.

A dancer.

Strong, I will never give up on my dreams.

My studio to be the best in Nashville and having my own dance company.

Although I have been formally trained in most styles of dance, my primary dance styles are hip hop/jazz funk, contemporary and tap.

I like hip hop/jazz funk the best because I have more freedom to express myself and the technique is not as rigid as other dance styles.

I started dancing when I was 2 years old because I had 2 older sisters that danced and I wanted to be in the studio dancing with them. In 2015 I moved from CO to LA to follow my dream of becoming a professional dancer

One of my best experiences was dancing in Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty” Show at NYFW. Besides working with Rihanna, I was able to work with Parris Goebel, a choreographer I have looked up to for years.

I would love to dance for Ariana Grande with her choreographers, Scott and Brian Nicholson

Dance is my passion. It is how I express myself and I can’t imagine my life without some form of dance in it.

Although I enjoy teaching and choreographing for others, my first love is performing.

Another form of entertainment performer.

Dance is my passion, but my goal is to inspire others. I started my own movement #breakingthestereotypeTM. I believe that any “body” is a dancer’s body.

My most notable performances include dancing with Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lizzo, and Meghan Trainor. I have performed on DWTS, Ellen, AGT, and at Coachella.

My dream is to go on an international tour with a major artist and to continue choreographing