Meredith Flores was born in the Philippines, grew up in San Diego, and then moved to Los Angeles where she graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Arts & Cultures with an emphasis in Dance and a Minor in Education. Prior to entering college, Meredith attended the San Diego School of Creative & Performing Arts where she studied dance, music, and theater. With the academy, she appeared in numerous musicals including Dream Girls, The Wiz, Once on This Island, Sweet Charity, and also played the roll of "Molly" in Annie at the age of 9. Meredith Flores was a soloist in The San Diego Children's Dance Theater, which represented the United States at the Dance & Child International Dance Conference held in Sydney, Australia. In 2006, Meredith spent six months in the Philippines conducting master classes for young professional dancers and performed in numerous televised variety shows. She also performed in the Taurus World Stunt Awards, televised on E!, a project in which she was able to work with the choreographer of Cirque Du Soleil. Meredith has always held a passion for choreography and a desire to conceptualize artistic work that reflected her experiences, vision, and voice. Using dance as her forum of expression, she founded the XPOSE Dance Theater Company in 2005. Under her artistic direction, XPOSE has appeared in numerous special events ranging from fashion shows to an opera and was also chosen to perform for the US troops on military bases in Qatar and Afghanistan in 2007 and 2009.
Meet Paolo:
Paolo Alcedo was born and raised in the central Philippines. He trained under Douglas Nierras of the Powerdance Company with whom he won the 10th Saitama Worldwide Modern Dance Competition in Saitama, Japan. He moved to Los Angeles in 2002 and was honored with an EDGE scholarship (2002-2003). Paulo has danced in numerous dance companies in Los Angeles including Hysterica Dance Company, (Kitty McNamme/Ryan Heffington), Commonality Dance Company (Adam Parson), Collage Dance Theatre (Heidi Duckler), Strange Company (Hassan Christopher), Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company (Kate Hutter), and Rosanna Gamson Worldwide. He performed in "Mass", with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2004 Hollywood Bowl season. Paulo is Co-Artistic director with Meredith Flores for the XPOSE Theatre Dance Company and is also very active in the Filipino Community, performing and teaching dance. Paulo was chosen to be a part of the movie INDIANA JONES produced by Steven Spielberg and toured with the first Filipino-American Musical opera, Karim at Jasmin where he was the director/choreographer.
Meet Tina: As far as master class instructors go, Tina prides herself as being an educator in the true form of jazz. At heart, she is a teacher, specializing and focusing on the educational aspects of dance, with a strong emphasis on developing a dancer's stage presence, above and beyond technique. Early in her career, taking her cue from the original LA jazz greats, Tina developed a new art form mixing straight jazz and "funk", which helped the students she trained thrive in the golden age of music video. They danced with such video legends as Prince, Michael Jackson and Paula Abdul.
While growing as a highly sought after competition choreographer, her choreography credits beyond her numerous award winning national competition routines included Laker Girls, Miss California and Miss Texas Pageants, and television shows with Audrey and Judy Landers. She has performed, choreographed and/or instructed in Thailand, Japan, Canada, Guam, Saipan, Australia and at London's famous Pineapple Dance Studios. She was also on staff at the Edge Performing Arts Center in Hollywood.
The students she trained have continued to work in the industry dancing with artists such as Usher, Aaron Carter, The A-Teens and Corbin Bleu. And two of her favorite success stories are training Sabrina Bryan of the Cheetah Girls and Matthew Morrison of Glee.
Tina spent 7 years as a jazz instructor on the national dance convention LA Dance Magic, where she was known for her high energy classes and her enthusiasm for working with dancers of all levels.
Meet Brooke: Brooke started dancing at the age of three in the San Francisco Bay Area. A founding member of The Dance Company of San Francisco, Brooke was a featured dancer in Tiffany Billings independent film, Falling Star and a principal dancer in Martha Kelly-Fierro’s modern company, “Altered Modalities.” She attended The School of the Arts in San Francisco and furthered her dance education at UC Irvine. Brooke has performed in Sonya Tayeh's last two shows and has taught for Shock, Adrenaline, and Nuvo conventions. She continues to travel across the nation to dance, teach, and share her dramatic and passionate style of dance.
Meet Nina: Nina McNeely is a performance artist, dancer, and choreographer making her mark in the Los Angeles underground club scene. With her technical dance training as a back bone she incorporates burlesque, contemporary, and whatever genre, aesthetic, or trend that happens to be her inspiration at the time, to reflect her views and reactions to pop subculture. She is a member of L.A based Hysterica Dance company. And is one of the four members of the new up and coming performance band We Are The World signed to Manimal Records. She works commercially as well and has performed with Britney Spears, Fergie, Peaches, Beck and Adam Lambert.
Meet Dee: Dee Caspary choreographed and was Director of Staging for Justin Timberlake’s 2007 FutureSex/LoveShow. Dee recently choreographed a Macy’s Stars of Dance performance on ABC’s hit show “Dancing with the Stars”, as well as the 2008 ESPY’s with Justin Timberlake on ESPN. Dee’s National Commercial credits include Dayquil and Verizon Wireless. Dee has influenced dance all over the world in such places as Australia, Japan, Canada, Italy, Guam, New York and his hometown of Los Angeles. He has directed and choreographed live events for Billboard Live,Hard Rock Café, Oakley, Key Club, and The Stone Movement. Dance Magazine said,“Dee Caspary is the modern day Fosse of our generation.” Dee has choreographed for professional companies all over the world including Odyssey Dance Theatre (Utah), Evolution Dance Company (LA) and has had the opportunity to debut his work for four straight years at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood - premiering “A Time No More”, “The Glass Case”, “The Last Letter”, and “Inferno of Sin”. Dee has worked with greats such as Kenny Ortega, Peggy Holmes, Jerry Evans, Bonnie Story-Baker, and performed live in front of Tony Award winning choreographer Susan Stroman at the Elan Awards in New York. Dee currently teaches at EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles and Broadway Dance Center in New York.
Posted - November 30 2009 : 4:28:07 PM
finally, the amazing dee caspary comes to boogiezone..that is going to be an awesome class i know it! its gonna be packed..come early..
Posted - December 01 2009 : 12:00:31 AM
That Stars of Dance piece was lovely!!! can't wait for Wed! Dee is really excited to teach, just spoke with him!
- Maris :) BZ Contemporary Community Class Host ENTITY Co-Director of Choreography BREED OCLA 2008-4VR
Meet Hani: Hani Abaza grew up in Ontario, Canada where his love of dance and movementstemmed. He performed for three years in Toronto for such artistsandcompany's like Patty Labelle, Shaka Khan, Canadian Idol, Eva Avila, HelixDance Project and Jully Black. Soon after he moved to Los Angelas to pursuehis Dance career where he has had the opportunity to work with some amazingTalents like Wade Robson, Mia Micheals, Mandy Moore, Sonya Tayeh, TyceDiorio, Noemie Lafrance and Margarette Derricks, on projects like Criss Angel Believe / Cirque Du Soleil, SYTYCD, Lincon Heights ABC Familyand for international artists like Adelle and Feist. Hani most recently finished filming 20th Century Fox's new fantasy feature film called "Percyand theOlympians" and is proudly a top ten contestant at the 2009 Capezio AceChoreography Awards. Hani's passion for Movement and Dance is immeasurable,he loves to Choreograph and Teach so he can share his prospective and giveback the knowledge he's constantly searching for. His Unique outlook ondance in life adds a fresh face to movement and feels great if the abilityto let go and share yourself is there. :)
Meet Marc: Marc Nunez is usually the guy in the back of Boogiezone contemporary class controlling music for the teachers but now he is teaching class. Marc started his formal dance training when he attended UC Irivne with the world renown dance faculty such as Donald McKayle and El Gabriel. While at UCI, he also trained with Common Ground, Mavyn, and MCIA. Since graduating in June 2008, Marc dance for Mike Esperanza’s BARE Dance Coampny, signed with DDO agency, and performed for Rihanna at the MTV 2008 VMAs . In 2009, Marc became one of the original members of Boogiezone’s contemporary company, Entity. His choreography is influenced by hip hop musicality, contemporary expression and a love for dance. So as longa s you love to dance, his class will be a fun and easy way to finish off one of the last Boogiezone contemporary classes of 2009.
Posted - January 01 2010 : 11:05:33 AM
marc, your bz class turned out awesome..i got to watch a few of the clips. sorry i missed it. it should go up on our youtube for all to see shortly!
Erica Michelle Sobol is a Los Angeles original, born and raised in the city. After high school, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in the performing arts. There Erica earned a BA in dance-theater from Barnard College at Columbia University and began her professional dance training at Broadway Dance Center, working most often under Wes Veldink, David Marquez, Michele Assaf, and Rhapsody James. She also began her teaching career in New York, serving as a faculty member at Manhattan’s Peridance.
She is thrilled to be back home in Los Angeles now, continuing to create and to train. Here, Erica has worked with so many brilliant choreographers, including but not limited to: Gil Duldulao, Kevin Maher, Victor Rojas, Craig Hollamon, Anthony Garza, Matt Cady, and Tucker Barkley.
Erica has contributed works to *** Pride NYC, Traffic, the Broadway Dance Center Performance Outlet, Carnival: a choreographer’s ball (in New York and Los Angeles), the EDGE Annual Show, and many many others…
She has worked as a master instructor at several dance studios all over the world, including BDC in Tokyo, Pineapple in London, Harmonic in Paris, and Skip on Guam. And she is on faculty at the Edge Performing Arts Center.
Erica Michelle Sobol is the founder and artistic director of collidEdance, an ever-evolving professional dance company dedicated to blurring the line between dance and theater. The company’s Brooklyn, NY debut in 2004 received rave reviews and enjoyed five straight soldout performances. collidE is now based in Los Angeles. And thriving! From it’s West Coast debut, in Hollywood in 2008, collidE continues to bring packed houses down!
Erica feels lucky, so lucky, to be inspired everyday.
Tiffanie "Fi" Siyavong earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Chapman University in May 2006. She has been dancing since the age of 4, and at an early age had the opportunity to perform with the Joffrey Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' in 1994, San Francisco Ballet's 'The Nutcracker' in 1995, and Pacific Northwest Ballet's 'Cinderella' in 1995. She has danced and trained under the direction of Dale Merrill, Nancy ****son-Lewis, Amy Bates-Nakamura, Sean Greene, Jenny Backhaus and Tiffany Billings. Tiffanie's performances at Chapman include Fall Faculty Dance Concerts 2002-2006 and Spring Dance Concerts 2002-2006. She has choreographed pieces throughout her time at Chapman and finished her undergraduate program with her senior thesis concert, "Spectacle Commodity", where she directed and choreographed in April 2006. Since graduating, Tiffanie has performed in several modern and contemporary dance companies including: Gallimaufry and Greene under the direction of Sean Greene and BARE Dance Company under Mike Esperanza. Her latest performances includes "A Night at the Movies" at Seven Degrees in Laguna Beach, CA and "Manhattan" by Mike Esperanza premiering at Gothic Moon Studios in Orange,CA. Tiffanie has also been teaching dance throughout Southern California since 2004 including Orange County High School of the Arts, South County Dance, Lovett Dance Center and Elevation Studios. Presently, Tiffanie is in New York earning her Master's of Fine Arts degree at the prestigious New York University Tisch School of the Arts where she will be graduating in May 2011.
Posted - January 13 2010 : 1:19:45 PM
BZ Contemporary kicks butt! Come on out, its the last class to be seen in before the big Entity Audition weekend! Be there!
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