We are proud to bring you a faculty of the industry’s top instructors, creators, and entrepreneurs! With classes in Hip-Hop, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Commercial Jazz and more, you will train with elite professionals. Our team is committed to helping you build confidence in yourself and develop the skills necessary to reach your goals and pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
As performing artists, choreographers, and creative directors, the Wilson Brothers work can be seen with artists such as Madonna, Beyonce, Toni Braxton, Tom Cruise and Wayne Brady to name a few. They have toured the world with Janet Jackson (All for You & Damita Jo Promotional tour), Britney Spears (Onyx Hotel tour), Christina Aguilera (Stripped & Back to Basics World tours) and Cher (Final Farewell/Dressed to Kill tour).
After making his Broadway ensemble debut in Disney’s The Lion King, Kevin’s work can be seen in Broadway shows such as Finding Neverland and Radio City Rockettes Spring Spectacular as associate choreographer. For the iconic Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus, The Wilson Brothers were the resident choreographers for multiple shows including, “Dragons”, “Built to Amaze”, “Legends” and the ground-breaking “Out of this World.”
Marcel was a creative consultant and supervising choreographer for Christina Aguilera’s Xperience Residency show at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. He also was associate creative director for UK’s X- Factor. Marcel can be seen as a celebrity choreographer, on BYU Tv, “Wayne Brady’s IQ Comedy show.” This year, the Wilson Brothers choreographed the 2020 BET Awards featuring Wayne Brady as Little Richard.
They are no strangers to television, contributing choreography for shows such as “So You Think You Can Dance”, “America’s Got Talent”, ” Dancing with the stars”, and most recently seasons 1, 2, and 3 of the Fox Hit show “The Masked Singer.”
Their work as associate choreographers can be watched in Netflix ‘s Feel the Beat starring Sofia Carson, the highly- anticipated “Sponge Bob: On the Run, and Paramount Studios “Rumble” which will hit screens later this year. For their work on Cher’s Dressed to Kill Tour, they were awarded an Outstanding Choreography award in concert performance from the World Choreography Awards.
Gigi Torres, Choreographer, Dance Educator, & Mentor has been in the dance industry for 18 years and has taught all over the world in 30 countries & 30 states. She has taught at Debbie Reynolds Studio, Movement Lifestyle Studio, Broadway Dance Center and currently teaches on Revel Dance Convention. Since 2012, Gigi has created and produced her own dance programs mentoring over 800 dancers through her Gg Process Programming to help dancers create the process to their purpose and build confidence in their mindset and strength in their movement. Alumni from her programs have went on to dance for Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Cardi B, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, and Camila Cabello; teach at Broadway Dance Center, Millennium Dance Complex, and various conventions in the USA; and start their own brands and companies as Entrepreneurs. Her programs set dancers up for their future through her mindset training, goal-setting process, and brand strategy.
Gigi’s choreography has been seen on So You Think You Can Dance Scandinavia, Ukraine, & Poland and internationally for Musical Solo & Group Artists in Korea including Pop group TXT & Girl’s Generation, Indonesia’s 7 Icons & SMASH, and USA’s Madame Gandhi. She has created work for many companies including Vanity Fair Magazine, Joffrey Ballet, NuSkin International, The Yellow Co Women’s Conference, & the American Musical & Dramatic Academy.
Gigi’s mission is to empower dancers to live purpose driven journeys that create longevity for their careers & life. She is known in the dance industry for producing elite programming that brings artists past their potential and into their true authentic purpose. Gigi builds powerful communities that empower dancers and their personal and career development. She believes that when one finds their uniqueness and purpose, the world is a better place we could all live in.
Growing up mostly in Atlanta after moving from Chicago, Sherrod always loved to dance and admired artists like Michael & Janet Jackson. It wasn’t until he met his dance teacher at Westlake High School that he knew he could make a lucrative career strictly from dance. Once he graduated from high school, he dove head first into the commercial industry in Atlanta. At 20 years old Debbie Allen recruited him to Los Angeles & made him an artist in residence where he would continue to train and work professionally.
Since then, he’s been making his dreams come true every year and has danced and choreographed on numerous award shows including the Superbowl, The Grammys, Billboard Awards, The Academy Awards, MTV Awards, American Music Awards, etc. He has also danced on television shows such as NBC’s “Annie LIVE!” “Ravens Home,” “Empire,” “First Lady,” “American Soul,” “Aretha,” etc. His live show credits include Jimmy Fallon, SNL, The Real and Good Morning America.
Sherrod has toured around the world with artists including Mariah Carey, Lil Nas X, Gwen Stefani, The Weeknd, Normani, Ciara, Janelle Monae, Lizzo, Kelly Clarkson, Shania Twain, Chloe & Halle and more.
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Rachel’s early training was in various dance studios throughout West Michigan, including the Grand Rapids Ballet. Rachel has also trained internationally. Studios include Broadway Dance Center in New York City, Pineapple Dance Center in London, England, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Lou Conte Dance Studio, and Joel Hall School of Dance in Chicago, along with many more. Rachel has toured and performed live with well-known artists including KC & The Sunshine Band dancing on their “Feeling You” Tour. Rachel has won multiple dance and choreography awards at the regional and national levels. You can see her choreography on Netflix and Amazon in the feature film ‘The Wedding Party’ (2017). Upon moving to Los Angeles Rachel has performed in multiple music videos. Artists include Tyler Ward, Megan Nicole, Riff Raff, Xcedera, and Boy Band INNOVATE. She has been an opening act for LA Fashion week and continues to train and perform with Gina Starbuck, Destini Rogers, Brooke Pierotti as well as other artists at West Coast Dance Theater, Millennium Dance Complex, Debbie Reynolds Legacy, and most other premiere LA studios.
Rachel has worked with Laurieann Gibson on her hit BET Show “Born to Dance” and was a dancer alongside Beau Casper Smart in the movie “48 Hours to Live”. She has enjoyed her time Judging and being on staff at multiple dance competitions across the country and is currently touring as a National Director for VIP Dance Competition. Rachel loves spending her time teaching for different intensives, conventions, workshops, and choreographing/teaching at competitive dance studios throughout the Midwest. She is currently in the process of being YPAD certified and certified in Acrobatic Arts. Rachel graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Western Michigan University and is excited to continue her dance career in the commercial industry of Los Angeles, California.
Sharrod Williams is multi-hyphenate based in New York City. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey the middle child of Kevin and Pamela. A Capricorn in all the best ways, Sharrod is a dreamer, go-getter, and natural born leader. With an innate love of the creativity and education, Sharrod attended arts institutions most of his life. He graduated cum laude from Montclair State University with a dual major in Communication Studies and Dance. After discovering a desire to perform in college, his path led him to appear On-Stage and Screen on Broadway, Off Broadway, in National Tours, Dance Companies, and in Indie Film and Television with credits including Hamilton, Cats, Tuck Everlasting & Moulin Rouge. Sharrod has led masterclasses and choreographed for dance studios and esteemed organizations including the Joffrey Ballet School, The Institute of American Musical Theatre, The Grier School, through Broadway Connection, and Stage Door Workshops.
Most recently, he has ventured into screenwriting and producing. The social and political issues of 2020 inspired Sharrod to create his own multi-media production company called Coca Dusted Productions. The idea of “cocoa dusting” symbolizes the unique magic that people of color sprinkle into everything they do in life. CDP’s first brain child is the award-winning web series NEIGHBORS, in which Sharrod Executive Produced, created, wrote, cast, and starred in. The series amplifies BIPOC and the LGBTQ experience – which is the goal for all of CDP’s projects. Sharrod believes his super power is connecting with people. His favorite quote is, “life’s too short to live the same day twice”. Striving for progress not perfection always, Sharrod aims to make the most of everything opportunity to lead with love.
Ashley Day is a British born actor and dancer. He trained at the Stomelands School of Ballet and Theatre Arts, The Royal Ballet and Bird College. He made his professional debut at seventeen in Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker. Immediately following, he joined the original company of Mary Poppins. He starred as Jerry Mulligan in An American in Paris and Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street. Other West End theatre credits include Evita, On The Town, The Wizard of Oz, Book of Mormon, Oliver! Funny Girl (Paris).
**West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London. Along with New York City’s Broadway theatre, West End theatre is considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre.
Since his to the United States, Ashley has performed at the Joyce Theatre in Al Blackstone’s Freddie Falls in Love and recurs on Dynasty (CW) as Colin. Ashley has taught and choreographed for several New York and London universities including IAMT, Bird College, Guildford School of Acting, D&B Performing Arts, and has lectured and judged for the I.S.T.D and I.D.T.A associations.
Mia DeWeese is a dance performer, teacher, and choreographer based in New York City. She received her BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College. She spent two seasons with the contemporary dance company BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, and performed with the dance company 10 Hairy Legs Projects, in their modern dance rendition of “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.” She is a member of the dance company FreeMove Dance, under the direction of Jenn Freeman. She performed in Sonya Tayeh’s dance symphony titled “You’ll Still Call Me By Name” at New York Live Arts and Jacob’s Pillow. She performed in the off-broadway show “The Lucky Ones.” Her TV credits include Fox network’s “Rent Live!” and HBOMax’s “The Gilded Age.” She is a swing, dance captain, and associate choreographer for Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”
Christian Denice’s professional dance experience includes Odyssey Dance Theatre, River North Dance Chicago, and BJM Danse (Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal). As a choreographer, he has created new works for such companies and organizations as Chamber Dance Project, the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, Odyssey Dance Theatre, DanceWorks Chicago, Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Visceral Dance Chicago, Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Western Michigan University, Modern America Dance Company, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Wright State University, Kit Modus, and Dance Lab New York. Christian has been on faculty with Modas Dance, Open Doors Dance Festival, EPIC Dance Utah, Eisenhower Dance Detroit NEWdanceFEST, Kansas City Jazz Dance Fest, DanceWorks Chicago Dance360, AXIS Connect Los Angeles, and Peridance Center in New York City.
Christian had the opportunity to re-stage KOSMOS by Andonis Foniadakis on the dancers of the National School of Dance in Athens, Greece in 2019, and again on the dancers of Nationaltheatre Mannheim NTM Tanz in Mannheim, Germany in 2022. Christian worked with New York City based filmmaker Alexander Sargent on a dance film of his work “Dwellings” created on Chamber Dance Project which premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in October. Christian is currently dancing in a production for Andonis Foniadakis Dance Company based in Athens, Greece called “Salema Revisited” and has been on faculty as Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland since 2021. Christian most recently made his Broadway debut in “The Little Prince” which opened in New York in 2022.
Laura Aronoff is a performer from Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up training at the renowned Rhythm Dance Center in ATL before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication at Tulane University. Laura has worked in Los Angeles, NYC and Atlanta, performing in musicals, tv/film, music videos, live events, industrials and more! She has performed for brands such as Adidas, Southwest Airlines and Disney Style, as well as live premieres for Cartoon Network, FX Network and HBO. Catch her in Tall Girl 2 (Netflix), Step Up Series: Season 3 (Starz), Pretty Little Liars (HBO) and Will Trent (ABC/Hulu). Laura’s favorite music video credits include Andrew Winghart’s ‘Cry Me A River’ and the official video for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ ‘American Girl’. Regional theatre credits include: West Side Story, Kiss Me Kate, National Tour of Rudolph, and The Music Man.
Casey Noblett is the founder of the Commercial Dance Intensive, a training program designed to help dancers bridge the gap from their technical training to the business side of the commercial dance industry.
Casey began her dance career at age 10 under Jacques d’Ambolse in NYC, going on to perform at the White House, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Smithsonian, Madison Square Garden, and in Japan, Taiwan, and Venezuela. Her credits include work with Gloria Estefan, Will Smith, Chayanne, MTV, ABC, CBS, Univision, Telemundo, Disney, Universal, and the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks Dance Team as Captain.
Casey has also been featured in Dance Studio Life and Dance Spirit Magazine.
Most recently, Casey has produced over 8 music videos for artists such as Carmit from the Pussycat Dolls, Willie Gomez, Telisu and Nick Hagelin. She also travels with Royal Caribbean as a choreographer for their audition tour.
Founding N-House Productions in 2001, CD In 2014 and the dance website company myindustryprofile.com in 2021, Casey has been instrumental in the development of countless professional dancers through her innovative vision for education.
DeLuca is a theater and television actor, best known for originating the role of Jack Kelly on the First National Tour of Disney’s Newsies. He has developed new musicals alongside the greatest theater composers of our time including Stephen Schwartz, Alan Menken and Martin Charnin. Alongside working as an actor, DeLuca has studied at Quantum University, working with therapists and scientists studying the science of mindfulness to incorporate healthier approaches to art in the professional and educational playing field. @DDeLuca15
Dealing with insecurities, anxiety and depression is unfortunately a giant part of the social makeup of today’s world. Having the most elementary tools to approaching taking care of one’s mental and emotional states is the most powerful resource one can have, especially when it comes to dance. This workshop focuses on the basics of healthily working with the negative stories we tell ourselves in our heads and learning simple breathing exercises that can reset our bodies in the most stressful situations. In a world where one rarely finds a moment of peace within their own minds, DeLuca approaches teaching the science of mindfulness in the easiest and playful way an artist could learn.
Christie Sirota-Jordon has been teaching and creating choreography since the age of 15. Training from east to west coast and along some of LA’s hottest choreographers, she holds a wide variety of styles that bring an exciting blend to the classroom. A Pittsburgh native, Christie has traveled nationally with numerous conventions and workshops including CDI (Commercial Dance Intensive), Dance Masters of America, Dance Caravan, Professional Dance Teachers Association, N-House Productions and VIP Dance Competition, as well as teaches master classes and choreography throughout the country.
Her dance and choreography credits include Las Vegas Fashion Week, Latin Icon Juan Luis Guerra, Disney’s boyband NLT, dance/pop group Taxi Doll, workout sensation Hip Hop Abs and more! Christie is a regional trainer for The BodyBar(re) Fitness Franchise and travels nationally setting pieces for competitive dance studios and dance teams.
Christie’s career has transitioned into other facets of the entertainment industry including creating & directing events. She is a National Director for VIPDance Competition, touring the country running competition events for competitive dancers. In 2018, Christie launched her own intensive, 412 The Intensive in Pittsburgh to provide a space for young dancers to explore their artistry, prepare for a career in entertainment and train with the industry’s top instructors from LA & NYC. Christie is proud to announce her expansion to Chicago with 312 The Intensive and the development of The Intensive’s mentorship programs.
With 20 years in the entertainment industry, Christie is preparing the release of her latest programs to include one on one coaching, “next steps” for high school & college artists and specialized attention on building confidence.
