Wednesday, August 12, 2009

July 13-16: Tony Tran, Gigi Torres, and Nikki Stanek

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JULY 13-16: TONY TRAN, GIGI TORRES, AND NIKKI STANEK

MEET TONY TRAN

Tony is a member of Kaba Modern who were featured on ABDC. We will let his videos speak for itself!

Tony's Videos:

At Hype Studios


At SI5



MEET GIGI TORRES

Gigi Torres is originally from Irvine, CA, she has been training in all areas of dance from the age of 3. She is an international and domestic instructor, sharing her knowledge and love for dance from the East Coast to the Westcoast and overseas in Europe and Portugal.

Gigi is known for her work in Choreographer's Carnival Hollywood from 2005-present, The Highlands of Hollywood, Funkanometry LA, SD, and SF, Breed OCLA, Kaba Modern, Hip Hop Kidz, Kat Jimenez, and many high schools and studios in the LA and OC areas. She is the Director and Founder of the All-Female Dance Crew "Essence" that consists of ladies working in the entertainment industry.

She has danced in many shows including Jack Rabbit Flash's "Ladies in Lace," Monsters of Hip Hop the Show directed by Tabitha and Napoleon, Asia Entertainment San Jose, Dance 2xs' Project Element with Marty Kudelka, etc. Represented by Bloc Talent Agency, you could also see her as the Principal Dancer and Lead Girl on the Lee Hom ft Jin's Music Video "Heroes of the Earth" and a 2 Michael Jordan Commercial's - "Second Generation" and "Fist."

GIGI'S VIDEOS:

Pump it Up:



Best Friends:



Reel



MEET NIKKI STANEK

Nikki Stanek has been teaching hip hop for 8 years. She started dancing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Dance2XS UIUC. She was Director of Dance2XS UIUC in 2005. After graduating she continued dancing with their Chicago branch, Dance2XS Chicago, where she is currently the Artistic Director.

Aside from teaching Dance2XS Chicago, she has danced and taught around the world. In November 2008, she went to Ukraine as a guest choreographer on the hit TV show, “So You Think You Can Dance.” She has also taught in Algarve, Portugal, and Kiev, Ukraine, at Nike Conventions.

Nikki is also the Founder/Director of a girls’ crew called, “The Misses.” This is a group of women that is taking the dance community by storm. Each “Miss” holds an identity true to her personality and characteristics. Nikki, who is known as “Miss Madam”, hopes that The Misses can show the true power of females through dance.

It has been a big dream of hers to come to Los Angeles and teach Boogiezone and wants to thank all who have helped her get to where she is today! You can check out videos at www.youtube.com/dance2xschicago or www.youtube.com/nikki2xs.

NIKKI'S VIDEOS:

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