Choreographers

Valerie started her strong dance training at Pat Jackson's American Dance in San Luis Obispo. She has also taught and performed with the American Dance Company for 5 years. Val moved to Los Angeles and received a prestigious yearlong scholarship program at the Edge Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, where she trained with teachers such as Wes Veldink, Terri Best, Jackie Sleight, Mark Meismer, and Adam Parson. She has appeared as Gilbert Reed's principal in Carmen, Firebird, A Christmas Carole and Peter and the Wolf. She is the principal dancer for Adam Parson’s Commonality Dance Company(C. DANCE CO.)and has taught and assisted him in Mexico and Italy. Val has also prepared C. DANCE CO. to tour in Italy, Mexico, Korea and Zurich. Val has also worked with Christina Aguilera’s choreographer Jamie King's in his music video, "She Moves - Breaking all the Rules". Val is a resident choreographer and soloist dancer for Moorpark Civic Ballet, where she most recently choreographed, “The Nutcracker”. With award winning choreography and excellent teaching skills, Val has been teaching and choreographing throughout the united states.

Joey Doucette

Michael Schwandt

Rebecca Salcido

Val Manchin

Brooke Paulsen

Antolino Alvarez

		Joey Doucette Joey Doucette- a Professional International Choreographer for over 20 years in the USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Joey’s work has been seen in over 36 different countries. He choreographed for television, musical theater, rock concerts, production revues, and corporate industrials. As a Master Teacher Joey has taught in the USA, Mexico, France, Italy, Romania, Ukraine, South Korea and Germany. Joey taught for the world famous Luigi in New York City. Joey’s training in jazz, ballet, tap, modern, and ballroom is extensive. Joey currently has Productions running in Portugal, and Italy.
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		Val Manchin Valerie started her strong dance training at Pat Jackson's American Dance in San Luis Obispo. She has also taught and performed with the American Dance Company for 5 years. Val moved to Los Angeles and received a prestigious yearlong scholarship program at the Edge Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, where she trained with teachers such as Wes Veldink, Terri Best, Jackie Sleight, Mark Meismer, and Adam Parson. She has appeared as Gilbert Reed's principal in Carmen, Firebird, A Christmas Carole and Peter and the Wolf. She is the principal dancer for Adam Parson’s Commonality Dance Company(C. DANCE CO.)and has taught and assisted him in Mexico and Italy. Val has also prepared C. DANCE CO. to tour in Italy, Mexico, Korea and Zurich. Val has also worked with Christina Aguilera’s choreographer Jamie King's in his music video, "She Moves - Breaking all the Rules". Val is a resident choreographer and soloist dancer for Moorpark Civic Ballet, where she most recently choreographed, “The Nutcracker”. With award winning choreography and excellent teaching skills, Val has been teaching and choreographing throughout the united states.
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		Brooke Paulsen Brooke Paulsen’s work is raw, provocative and real. She has appeared on tours, television shows and film. She has worked with Paulina Rubio and Pink to name a few. She has appeared in television;Young and the Restless, The Nikki Cox Show, American Juniors and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She was a cast member on The Jerry Lewis Telethon choreographed by Jason Samuel Smith, which won an Emmy Award. Having worked with tap heavyweights such as Jason Samuel Smith and Fayard Nicholas, Brooke remains one of LA’s most respected tappers. She also appeared in the movie Rollerball starring LL Cool J and Chris Klein. She has been a member of Tapsounds Underground for seven years under the direction of Gregg Russell. She has worked with the hottest choreographers in LA such as Marty Kudelka, Fatima, Brian Friedman and Shawnette Heard. But above all, she loves to teach, choreograph and inspire.
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		MICHELLE CHANDLER-SMITH Dancing for over 20 years, Michelle excels at jazz, lyrical, modern and ballet and spends her time teaching and travelling the country continuing her dance education. As a member of the jazz-based Eastside Moving Company and the modern-jazz company Fusion, both in the Seattle area, Michelle also continued her studies before college under the guidance of Joe Tremaine, Gus Giordano, Dave Massey and several others. Educated at Chapman University in Orange, California, she began her teaching career soon after in Bellevue, Washington where she continues collecting many awards and honors for her choreography and technical excellence. Several of Chandler-Smith�s students have won title awards regionally and nationally and have gone onto dance careers in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York City, and with Holland America Cruise Line through Stiletto Entertainment. Michelle is excited to be sharing her choreography, knowledge and insight with students willing to pursue the heart and soul of dance as an innovative and expanding art form. Michelle's Link