Tabitha and Napolean Dumo

   Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo are a husband and wife team who have contributed their choreography and dancing talents to every genre of entertainment. Their career began in Las Vegas, directing and choreographing numerous shows as well as in film, television, tours, music videos and commercials. The duo have choreographed and/or performed with recording artists such as Celine Dion, Beyonce, Missy Elliott, Toni Braxton, Timbaland and Destiny's Child. Their assistant director credits for music tours include Ricky Martin's "Black and White Tour", Christina Aguilera's "Back to Basics Tour", and Celine Dion's "Taking Chances Tour". TV and film credits include Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101", the Grammy's "Billboard Music Awards", and "Soul Train. Currently, they are supervising choreographers for MTV's "America's Best Dance Crew" and "Rock The CRADLE " and hosts on TLC's new show "Rock The Reception" and also judging and choreographing for FOX hit show "So You Think You Can Dance".

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Blake McGrath

    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!

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tWitch

   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.

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Shannon Mather

   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.

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Fransisco Gella

   Mr. Gella has choreographed for Pennsylvania Ballet's Shut-Up and Dance production, and has set pieces on PHILADANCO, Danco/II, Ballet East of Austin, Texas, Tucson Regional Ballet, Reflections Dance Company of Washington, D.C., California Ballet and the University of Utah Ballet Ensemble. He is the recipient of many awards for his choreography, and recently his choreography was chosen for the Presidential Scholars Gala at the Kennedy Center and was performed in front of the President of the United States.

   Mr. Gella has been a company member with the Philadelphia Dance Company aka PHILADANCO, Repertory Dance Theater of Salt Lake City, UT., Spectrum Dance Theater of Seattle, WA., the Chamber Dance Company, Leaving/Ground Dance, California Ballet and Ballet Pacifica. He was part of the National Choreographers Initiative two years in a row, performed at the Closing Ceremonies in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan, a worldwide broadcasted event, as a principal soloist and was featured in a PBS: Dance in America Special in Daniel Ezralow's (choreographer of Cirque du Soleil's, The Beatle's LOVE) holiday satirical work entitled "X-mas Philes." CurrentlyFrancisco is the founder and artistic director of NUEVO School of Contemporary Dance.

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Benji Schwimmer

    Coastal Dance Rage is thrilled to have one of "America's Favorite Dancers" on their faculty. This talented teacher and performer is the youngest inductee in the Swing Dance Hall of Fame ever! Since branching out to all other areas in the industry, Benji has performed and choreographed for "Idol", "So You Think" (US and Canada), "Dancing With The Stars" and basically every major television and cable station across the continent. Benji recently wrapped his first lead role in the film "Leading Ladies" and is currently producing and starring in the upcoming major motion picture, "Debonair".

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Tucker Barkley

   Tucker Barkley is known as one of the hottest dancer in LA as well as up and coming Choreographer in today's dance world. He originally comes from Texas, moved to Los Angeles on 2005 at the age of 15, to pursue his dance and choreography career. Even though Tucker is only 20 years old, he is no stranger to the dance world. Tucker has danced all his life, growing up in his mothers dance studio and competing as a competition kid. Since moving to LA, Tucker has worked with such artists as: Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Jason Derulo, Adam Lambert, Sean Kingston, Cheetah Girls, Omarion, and Sean Paul with Keyshia Cole. Tucker has danced in more than 22 music videos.

   He has done numerous TV Shows; "Dancing with the Stars" dancing with choreographer Wade Robson, "American Idol", Travis Payne's tribute to Michael Jackson on "Dancing with the Stars", CBS's "Cold Case", CMT Awards, "TRL", American Music Awards, MTV JLO"s "Dancelife", Cartoon Network "Reanimated", ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Show and Shoe Carnival. Tucker also been in nine feature films including: "Dance Flick", "Hannah Montana Movie", "Disaster Movie", "Walk Hard" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks". Tucker is a MTV Music Video Awards winning choreographer, winning at the Australian MTV VMA Awards for Best Choreography for Britney Spears "Circus" Video, co-choreographed with Andre Fuentes. Tucker has also been assistant choreographer to Brian Friedman several times on the show "So You Think You Can Dance", Tucker choreographed for LMFAO "I'm in LA" and "America's Got Talent".

   Tucker also teaches at the Millennium Dance Complex and the Edge in LA, and has taught master classes all over the world, including; Australia, Poland, New Zealand, Canada and Guam. Tucker is represented by MSA for choreography and Dance.

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Dee Caspary

   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.

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Luther Brown

   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.

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Ian Eastwood

   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.

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Tovaris Wilson

   Tovaris Wilson was born and raised in Miami, FL. He attended the prestigious New Word School of the Arts majoring in Musical Theatre and Dance. Upon graduation he moved to Los Angeles to Pursue his professional career in Dance. Early on,Tovaris knew that he eventually wanted to focus on Choreography but, decided that dancing professionally in LosAngeles first would give him the knowledge he would later need as a Choreographer. Tovaris has experienced several different genres in his career including: Television, Video, Stage, and Film. Tovaris has performed several times on the Annual Academy Awards programs and can be seen in commercials for Papsi,Sunmicrosystems, and Rubbermaid products. Tovaris has also appeared in videos for Britney Spears, Cher, Prince, Macy Gray, Blink182, and Will Smith. In 1999, Tovaris appeared in Austin Powers 2 and Austin Powers 3 - Goldmember.

   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.

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Laurieann Gibson

   When at age 17, Laurieann Gibson took a Greyhound bus from Toronto to New York City motivated by her dreams to dance, she had the quiet confidence even then, to know that one day those dreams would be realized. Now, she is one of the most sought-after Creative Director / Choreographers in the music industry. A classically-trained dancer, Laurieann studied at the prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Company. From her success as a working dancer with Mary J. Blige, Laurieann's talent allowed her to make the leap from dancer to Director of Choreography for Motown and Bad Boy Records, working with names such as the Notorious B.I.G., Puffy, Faith Evans and Missy. Blending hip-hop with her extensive training, Laurieann's vision was instrumental in taking the genre of urban music to its current space on the main stage of the international culture of music.

   In 2005, Laurieann began residency as the on-air choreographer for MTV's hit television show Making The Band. Laurieann and her signature moves were viewed every week for three seasons by millions of viewers that soon picked up on her distinctive catch phrases such as "Muffins!" and "Boom-Kack!" Laurieann Gibson is the creative visionary behind breakout international sensation Lady Gaga. Back when the artist was dancing atop bars in seedy New York City nightclubs, Laurieann saw the star-power and brazenly predicted that she would sell 10 million—a record-setting feat that Lady Gaga recently surpassed within just one year and four months from her album's original release date. Laurieann serves as Creative Director and Choreographer in the Haus of Gaga, the creative team responsible for Gaga's music videos, television appearances, touring experiences and more. Currently, Laurieann is the Creative Director behind Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster World Tour 2010" and Alicia Keys' "The Element of Freedom World Tour 2010."

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