Sarah has been dancing for 12 years, developing her training in Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop and Ballet. Her passion for dance began with an interest in Hip Hop and Jazz when she was 13 years old. As a member of the dance team for three years in high school, she became captain of the team in 2003. At Jakarta International School, she received an ‘Award in Dance’ in 2002 and a ‘Most Valuable Dancer’ award in 2003.

Her dance training was primarily at Jakarta International School, Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, and Sydney Dance Company. In 2006 Sarah completed a Diploma in Dance in Singapore, where the focus was mainly on Contemporary and Ballet. She completed a ballet course in the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing in 2005. The variety in techniques brought about Sarah’s versatile dancing style.

She has performed in Singapore at Zouk Nightclub, Chingay Parade, and Indonesian Art Festival. In Sydney she has performed with Soulxpress at Space Nightclub and The Burbs Festival.

Sarah has taught at Jakarta International School, Singapore International School of Jakarta, National Institute of Youth Performing Arts Australia, and Soulxpress at Sydney University.

Come and try her new Street Jazz class this Saturday at 12.00pm at Dancekool!!!

This is an open 4 weeks course of Funky Lockin’ with Eriko Okada.
NOTE: You will get a free CD of FUNK music at the end of the 4 weeks course!!

Eriko has been teaching and choregraphing showcases in many Sydney’s dance schools (Dancekool, Caramell, D2Mg etc.) for few years now.
She has now decided to pass on her knowledge about Funky Lockin’ to all the students interested in learning this funky and groovy dance style. Find out all the details below.

☆Course Contents☆ 

Week 1 : Saturday 8th of May 5.30pm-6.30pm

Rhythm training and body control
Basic Lockin’ techniques
-      Point
-      Dice
-      Give your-self five

Week 2 :  Saturday 15th of May 5.30pm-6.30pm

Combination of Soul steps with Lockin’
-      Wiki Wiki
-      Popcorn
-      Funky guitar

Week 3 : Saturday 22th of May 5.30pm-6.30pm

Advanced Lockin’ techniques
-      Get down
-      Air knee drops
-      Air which-a-way

Week 4 – Saturday 29th of May 5.30pm-6.30pm
Revisions and all- combined routines

※ All the participants will get a FREE CD with FUNKY tracks of Eriko’s selection!!

Bboy Blond has been breaking for over 13 years, gaining a wealth of experience through battling, teaching, choreographing theatre shows, judging competitions, starring in commercials and touring all over the world. He has won many prestigious international breaking competitions, most notably Battle of the Year, 2007 with Extreme Crew. Most recently he choreographed and starred in the theatre production, Ballerina Who Loves a Bboy, and toured it around Korea, to Scotland, China, Japan, Guam and even presented it on Broadway in New York.

Bboy Blond is well known for his incredible powermoves, yet he is an all-round breaker who is well versed in all elements of Bboying.

BBoy Blond is an excellent teacher; this workshop is a great opportunity to get some tips for training more efficiently. You will also get advice to get started with your power moves if you are a beginner or to improve your windmills, swipes, 2000’s and more if you are already practicing those moves.

Come and learn from this experienced teacher and BBoy!!!

To register please email dkparra@dancekool.com or call DK Studio (during studio hours) 0435-801-987

Leo has been dancing for more than 8 years.
He’s been taught by NAMA (R.I.P) (Gorilla Crew Korea) and Brian Green (NYC) and has been inspired by many crews such as Dance fusion, Electric Boogaloos, Moptop Crew etc.

Leo’s dance biography:
2002 – Street Jam (Winner) (HipHop)
2003 – Studied at Broadway dance center (NY) Fazils’ Dance studio (NY)
2007 – 2nd Place – Looze Control Final (Locking)
2007 – Guest Dancer – Groove Hills
2007 – winner – Funk Style’ Battle – Looze control
2007 – judge – Australian hiphop championship
2008 – 2nd Place – looze control
2008 – 2nd Place – 3 on 3 battle – Dance kool vol.22

He has always developed and encouraged house dance in Australia. Come and learn from him!!!

Check out some of his previous House Showcases:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVbiSAdONw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qaGkIM1qX4

Dancekool is proud to present classes with Karen Siu

Come and check her out!

About Karen:

Karen is a true passionate dancer that believes in “dancing from the heart and soul”. Her love for hip hop dance began seven years ago, taking classes from her now dance crew member Masaki, together with Akio, the trio formed “triple rebels” in 2007 and have performed in club events throughout Sydney.

Her love for hip hop grew even stronger when she lived in Japan in 2004, where she trained in the dance form as well as researched and interviewed about the Japanese hip hop culture and history. Whilst in Japan, she also developed a passion for dancehall and when she returned to Sydney in 2005, she formed a female dance crew, “sakura”, where they performed hip hop and dancehall in clubs and festivals across Sydney, Japan and Korea.

Over the past 2 years, her devotion for dance led her to Broadway Dance Center in NYC where she was able to study all styles of street dance including hip hop, poppin, lockin, breaking, house, wackkin, vogue and street jazz with some of the pioneers of these styles such as Brian Green, Bam Bam, Ejoe Wilson, Jazzy J, Archie Burnette, Shabba-doo and Tyrone. She was also trained in jazz and ballet and discovered a new passion for tap dancing as well as West African dance.

Karen believes that one can never stop learning. She would like to share her international dance knowledge and experiences as a dancer and a student to further develop herself. She feels that “everyone can dance, I will bring out the dancer in you!”

Dancekool is proud to present Hip Hop classes with Nikki!

Nikki shows an impressive style of dance, with a exceptional training from all over the world. He also has a strong body of work as a choreographer and dancer for many organisations and teams. With many years of experience in teaching and dance, come and check him out!

From 15th December 09
Every Tuesday from 8:30pm – 9:30pm

Nikki’s Credits include:
- Hip-hop, Hype, New Jack Swing with Gabson(Ultimate Dancer’s choreographer and director) 2005-2008
- Poppin & Lockin with Arnaud “PopLoque”(We Wanna Dance’s choreographer and director), Saho(ArtFever,Under Pressure), Mike Alvarez(Les Anciens), Patrick “Shako”(Full FX) 2006-2008
- Jazz & Contemporary @ FredAcademy with Ka (Jazz) & Pauline (Contemporary) 2008
- Newstyle, House Dance, Street-Jazz, Break Dance,…through many workshops, classes and showcasing with many belgian choreographers like Adn(DreamTeam,Pile ou Face), Lefty(Nouv’Alliance), Alain & O’liver (FFX), Karimbo, Lâam, Chuky & Serge(Hoochen Crew), Zack “Skate”, Ahmed “Tyles”  2006-2008

And International classes & workshops with Raphael Sergio(Newstyle,Paris), Hakim-EthaDam-(HouseDance,Paris), Jeffrey(Newstyle,Holland), Yeya(Hip-Hop & House Dance,Sweden), Super Dave(Hip-Hop,USA), Lando Wilkins “Jabbawookies” (Hip-Hop,USA), Lyle Beniga(Hip-Hop, USA) 2006-2008

Experience:
as dancer
- Tv’s shows : Femme Fatale-één- 2007, Jade-AB3- 2007 , Brahim-TMF Awards- 2008
- Showcase : WWD and Autant en Emporte la Danse in Paris festivals 2006 (Ultimate Dancers), Homage to the War Veterans @ Centre Culturel Woluwé-Saint-Pierre (Ultimate Dancers) 2007,Dirty Ballet (Nouv’Alliance) 2008, Duke All Star Game (Adn) 2008, WWD street show (WWD) 2008/ Dancer for several artist like Shakena, Jade(Ancienne Belgique) 2007/ “Festival Jacques Franck” (Ultimate 2005, WWD 2007)  / In Yo Face contest @ Kaai Theater (as choreographer) 2008/
- Dance contest : Juste Debout 2007-2008 , Burning Floor 2007, Sous-Pression 2008, /
TV’s video clip : Nessa 2008/
- Commercial credits : Puta Madre 2006-2007, Nike Jordan 2008, Galeria Inno 2008/
- Club’s podium dancer : YOU (Bxl) 2008, Club Industria (Anvers) 2006,Bozzini (Holland) 2007-2009

as teacher
- Newstyle UD Academy Bxl 2006-2008
- House Dance and Newstyle Anvers) 2008 / Fred Academy and Perfect Gym Dance Academy (Hip-Hop Bxl) 2008-2009

as choreographer
- In Yo Face Contest, NaturalFlavour (ladies Hip-Hop Crew from Anvers), assistant-choreographer for the musical “Le rêve d’Elya” (directed and created by Angelique “ThugAngel” Kaba)

** DK Parramatta $2 Battle **

@ DK Parramatta studio
level 2 292 Church Street, Parramatta
Date: Friday, November 6
Cost: $2 Entry for all Battlers
$2 Entry for Audience
Time: 8:00pm for registration
8:30pm for audience

Battle Rules
- 2 on 2
- All Style, All Music
- DK student only
Judges: DK teachers

** DK Parramatta New Timetable **

Check out the Parramatta Timetable page to see Parramatta’s new Timetable. Exclusively, 2 new teachers will be starting at Parramatta from the 30th of October: Wei Wei (HIp Hop) and YJ (Breaking) from All Consciousness Crew. Come and check them out!!

Check out the schedule below:

11:00 – Hip Hop with Jaye
“Hey I’m Jaye! I’m going to teach to ‘Replay’ by Shinee. It’s a great song and a fun dance to learn. If your interested in learning it, or want to go over the steps, come down and we can dance together! Dancekool Hwaiting!”

12:00 – St. Jazz with Rosie

1:00 – Hip Hop with Akio
“Hello Akio is my name. I’m going to use ‘Tie Me Down’ by New Boys feat Ray-J in this class. For my style of dance, having fun is the most important! Come and join my class!”

2:00 – Popping with Kenky

3:00 – Girls Hip Hop with Stacy

4:30 – Hip Hop with Nao
“The time is NAO!!! I’m going to teach Body Control, Intermediate Level Hip Hop Combo’s. It’s not hard, but it’s not easy! Enjoy together.”

5:30 – Locking with Tony

6:30 – Breaking with Hideboo
“HIDEBOOOOOO! I’m gonna teach basic bboy steps and footwork and at the end of class go over power. It’s gonna be dope, come and learn to bboy.”

7:30 – House with Leo
“I’m gonna teach House! Basic house steps, variation of steps and combinations. Should be fun! Please come!!!”

Come down, tell a friend, and check it out! It’s Dancekool’s Day of Dance on Saturday!

@ Dancekool Chinatown studio
Lev 3, 39 Goulburn St, Chinatown
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009
Cost: every class at $10
Time: 11:00am – 8:30pm

Highlights of Takuro’s biography:

• Danced and choreohraphed for : S.H.E, Li Hom, Sho and many more starts in Taiwan.
• Taught dance in the prestigous National Taipei Art University as a guest lecturer in dance.
• Has over 10 years teaching and dance experience from Japan, Taiwan and the US.

Comments about him:
Nao: “He is good. I like his dance.”
Yosuke : “A very versatile dancer”
Akio: “His way of picking up the beat is…..brilliant”

Come and welcome Takuro back!!!

@ Dancekool Chinatown studio
Lev 3, 39 Goulburn St, Chinatown

Time:

Thursdays   8:30 – 9:30 – Hip Hop Intermediate (from 17/09)
Saturday     4:30 – 5:30 – Hip Hop Intermediate (on 19/09 & 26/09)
Tuesdays     9:30 – 10:30 – Hip Hop Foundation Open (from 22/09)
Cost: Regular Class Prices