Blake McGrath co-owns Coastal Dance Rage and is currently a judge and choreographer on the hit show "So You Think You Can Dance" Canada. His credits include MTV's "DanceLife", "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 1 (USA), Janet, Madonna, Britney, J'Lo, Mariah, Beyonce, Chicago (movie), Rent (movie), Academy Awards, Gap, Pepsi, Old Navy, Hummer, Ipod and many more. Blake has recorded his debut music album "Time to Move" set to release in late 2010.

   His DANCE DRIVEN performance and instructional DVD is one to the nation's top selling DVD's. Blake's talent is in high demand and he continues to travel the globe teaching master class workshops, choreographing and inspiring students through the art of dance!

   Stephen "tWitch" Boss has made a prominent name for himself in the dance industry. tWitch trained at Chapman University and displays a versatile genre of dance disciplines and an outstanding ability to adapt to any dance style. tWitch is most renowned for his popularity on Season 4 of  "So You Think You Can Dance". He was also a finalist on "MTV's Wade Robson Project and "Star Search". He has traveled the world as a teacher and choreographer. His current projects include volunteering for various charities and causes through Jessica Biel's "Make the Difference Network"; filming a DVD Fitness Video for "SYTYCD and 19 Entertainment". Fans can expect tWitch to take his talent to the recording studio in 2009. CDR is proud to have tWitch new on faculty. His classes are critiqued as high energy, extremely entertaining and the best in the biz.

   Described as the most sought after choreographer in the United States and Canada, Shannon has taken dance and choreography to incomparable heights. Her creative vision and excellence to the dance arts have been described as moving, emotional, and inspiring. Shannon's prestige has been recognized with numerous choreography awards and critical acclaim, including two national titles for Cal State Fullerton University Dance Team. Her strive for excellence and ability to bring out the passion of young dancers nationwide has created high demand for her gift of teaching. Shannon is the co-owner of Coastal Dance Rage. She has assisted choreographers on the FOX hit show, "So You Think You Can Dance" in the U.S. and Canada as well as choreographed for contestant solos. Her choreography has also been featured on CBS "Star Search" and her students have danced with stars such as Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce.

   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.

   As the popularity of the urban dance segment continues to rapidly grow amongst North America’s mainstream culture, so does the direction and creative vision Luther provides on movie, television & music video sets across the country. With the recent wave of dance-oriented reality shows, Luther has been recruited to be a resident judge & choreographer on the ‘So You Think You Can Dance – Canada’ series for the past 2 seasons and has also been featured on Diddy’s ‘Making The Band 4’ series.

   His soulful choreography has had an influence on projects like Brandy’s “Talk About Our Love” video, Jully Black’s “Seven Day Fool” video, Skye Sweetnam’s “Human” video as well as Diddy’s “Tell Me” video feat Christina Aguilera. His choreography has also been all over television in commercials spots for McDonalds, M&M’s Chocolates, KFC, Family Channel and Nike, the latter was a winner of the 2007 Choreography Media Awards for Best Choreography in a Commercial. You can also see his choreography alongside that of Laurie-Ann Gibson in the major motion picture ‘Honey’ starring Jessica Alba.

   Brown has also been fundamental in launching and developing the young careers of many new artists across Canada and the U.S. His innovative thinking has put him in the forefront as a specialist in artist development. He has worked with such artists as Mario, Danity Kane, Danny Fernandes, Keshia Chante, FeFe Dobson. Luther has also taken his artist development skills one step further by developing his first artist – TRISH, which he has signed to his new venture - Apathamusic.

   Ian Eastwood, aka ICON, began dancing at age 10. In 6 short years he has been a dancer/choreographer of the following companies: Redefinition, ICON Ent., Viscous, Dance 2XS Chicago, Throwdown Entertainment, Giordano Dance (youth performance group) and One World DanceTheater. Currently he is a 2009 Cast Member of Monsters of Hip Hop/The Show L.A.. Winner of many competitions, including the Hall of Fame Nationals Solo Showdown Champion, Ian has appeared in Perkin's "Seafood Stomp" National TV ad, has taught 3 Boogiezone Community Classes and numerous classes at the Millennium Dance Complex in N. Hollywood. He has hosted and taught 3-class collaboration workshops with: Nick DeMoura (New Kids on the Block,JoJo), Jaffar Smith (Omarion,Mariah Carey,Brandy,Ashanti,ABDC's Boxcuttuhz) Laura Edwards and Ava Bernstine (Britney Spears Circus World Tour), Jillian Meyers (Janet Jackson,So You Think You Can Dance), David Moore (MTV's Wade Robson Project), and Tucker Barkley(SYTYCD,Dancing With the Stars). Recently, Ian has completed teaching workshops in: Mexico City,New York City, New Jersey , Houston (SoReal Cru Studio), as well as an extensive workshop tour of Germany and the Netherlands, and is currently scheduled to judge and teach festivals in Spain & Italy. In addition, Ian was selected by recording artist Trish Campbell and choreographer Luther Brown from over 130 videotaped submissions to work with Luther and perform with Trish at the Monsters of Hip Hop Finale Showcase in Orlando. While repping his own line of Young Lions clothing, Ian is also sponsored by The Other Duck.

   In early 2000, Tovaris began to get the choreography itch. He was yearning to focus on developing his own style so, he decided to make the transition to Choreography full-time. Tovaris had the unique experience in early 2001 to choreograph for Janet Jackson's opening number in Janet's "All For You" tour and soon after was commissioned to choreograph for Britney Spears. Tovaris has choreographed an episode of "Becoming" for MTV and co-choreographed the highly anticipated "Sexual Revolution" video from Macy Gray. Tovaris has found another outlet for his choreography in teaching. He has taught in Japan, Australia, Mexico, Europe. Also teaching for past few years at EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles.