Ayodele Casal was an American tap dancer and choreographer, she was the only woman to be member of who's Not Your Ordinary Tappers?
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Ayodele Casel Ayodele Casel (born June 5, 1975) is an American actress, tap dancer and choreographer. Raised in Puerto Rico, she derived inspiration for her tap style from salsa music. While in college, she studied with Baakari Wilder and Charles Goddertz. She became the first, and remains the only, woman to be a member of Savion Glover's Not Your Ordinary Tappers.
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Savion Glover Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973) is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer.
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Amara Tabor-Smith Amara Tabor-Smith (born 1965) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based choreographer and performer noted for significant contributions to dance that draw on, celebrate, and reconfigure African-American and women's history.
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Peter Chu Peter Chu is an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Born in The Bronx and raised in Cocoa Beach, Florida, Chu is best known for performing with choreographer Crystal Pite's company Kidd Pivot, for his role as principal dancer in the music video for Christina Perri's "Jar of Hearts", and for his appearance as a guest choreographer in season 9 and 10 of "So You Think You Can Dance". He was the winner of the 2010 Capezio A.C.E. Award for choreographing the work, "This Thought".
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Faux queen A faux queen or bio queen or diva queen or female queen is a female performance artist who adopts the style typical of male drag queens. A faux queen may be jocularly described as "a drag queen trapped in a woman's body". Other descriptions include "biologically-challenged" drag queen, "female female impersonator", or "female impersonator impersonator". Like traditional drag queens and drag kings, faux queens play with traditional gender roles and gender norms to educate and entertain. Faux queens can appear alongside drag kings at lesbian drag shows and are interchangeable with "regular" (assigned male at birth) drag queens as emcees, performers, hostesses, and spokesmodels.
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Sheryl Munks Sheryl Munks (born 1965) is an Australian actress. A former dancer of classical ballet, jazz ballet and tap, as well as a dance instructor.
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Sheila E. Sheila Cecelia Escovedo (born December 12, 1957) better known under the stage name Sheila E., is an American percussionist, singer, author, and actress. She began her career in the mid 1970s as a percussionist and singer for The George Duke Band. After leaving the group in 1983, Sheila began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album, which included the career-defining song, "The Glamorous Life". She became a mainstream solo star in 1985 following the success of the singles, "The Belle of St. Mark", "Sister Fate", and "A Love Bizarre" with the latter becoming one of her signature songs. She is commonly referred to as The Queen of Percussion.
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Karole Armitage Karole Armitage (born March 3, 1954) is an American dancer and choreographer currently based in New York City. She is artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance, a contemporary dance company that performs several times annually in New York City as well as touring internationally. Dubbed the “punk ballerina” in the 1980s, she is Tony-nominated for her choreography of the Broadway musical "Hair".
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Steve Paxton Steve Paxton (born 1939 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. As a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, he performed works by Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown. He was a founding member of the experimental group Grand Union and in 1972 named and began to develop the dance form known as Contact Improvisation, a form of dance that utilizes the physical laws of friction, momentum, gravity, and inertia to explore the relationship between dancers.
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Brenda Way Brenda Way is the American Artistic Director/Founder of ODC/Dance (Oberlin Dance Company). ODC has since become the premier contemporary dance company of the West Coast, performing for more than 50,000 people a year.
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Judith Jamison Judith Ann Jamison (born May 10, 1943) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Lauren Froderman Lauren Rose Froderman (born September 6, 1991) is an American dancer. She grew up in Glendale, Arizona and graduated from Greenway High School in 2010. She trained under the direction of Donald Dadey, who now owns the Scottsdale School of Ballet. Froderman is most known for being the winner of So You Think You Can Dance, the 7th season. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in California in 2015 and is part of the California Nu chapter of Pi Beta Phi there.
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Contemporary A Cappella Society The Contemporary A Cappella Society (of America), or CASA, is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to fostering and promoting a cappella music of all styles around the world. CASA was founded in 1991 by Deke Sharon in San Francisco just after graduation. In his Tufts University dorm room during his senior year, Sharon published a newsletter, The "C.A.N." (The Collegiate A Cappella Newsletter for the first 2 issues, then The Contemporary A Cappella Newsletter), mailed to all known collegiate a cappella groups by merging "The List," founded in 1988 & distributed by Rex Solomon, with the database maintained by his college a cappella group the Beelzebubs. The organization boasts over 6,000 current members, and serves as a resource for media and scholarly work in the area of contemporary a cappella.
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Kaba Modern Kaba Modern is a dance group originating from Irvine, California. Kaba Modern is a spin-off of the University of California, Irvine Filipino cultural club, Kababayan, which means "countrymen" in Tagalog. Created by Arnel Calvario in 1992, Kaba Modern began as dancers that performed the hip-hop portion or the "Modern Suite" of Kababayan's annual Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN) at UCI. Since then, Kaba Modern has entered multinational competitions and gained recognition in the media. For instance, few Kaba Modern members helped choreograph the "dance battle" scene in "The Debut" in 1997 while three members were shown onscreen during the Making of Featurette of the DVD.
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Bounce Streetdance Company Bounce Streetdance Company is a dance company from Sweden that started 1997. Members include Alvaro Aguilera, Joe Jobe, Ambra Succi, Fredrik Rydman aka Benke, Filmon Michael, David Dalmo and Jennie Widegren. Many of the members has choreographed for "So You Think You Can Dance (Scandinavia)", and Fredrik "Benke" Rydman was permanent judge. The company recently staged a street dance tribute to Michael Jackson's "Beat It", which subsequently became a runaway YouTube success.
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DanceBrazil DanceBrazil is an American dance company based out of New York City which presents works based upon the dance and music of the Brazilian culture. The company particularly excels in performances of works from the Afro-Brazilian artistic movement, particularly capoeira, and contemporary dances. The company performs for over 25,000 people each year nationwide.
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D'Bora D'Bora Lippett is an American female dance artist. She was previously a member of the all-female rap group, Mercedes Ladies.
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Hi-Hat (choreographer) Nadine "Hi-Hat" Ruffin is a choreographer of hip-hop dance from New York City. She has worked with Montell Jordan, Big Time Rush, Teddy Riley, P-Diddy, Wyclef, Shakira, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige, Eve, and Jay-Z. Ruffin's work is featured in many Missy Elliott music videos, such as "All n My Grill", "She's a Bitch", "Hit Em wit da Hee", "Sock It To Me", "Beep Me 911", "Get Ur Freak On", and "One Minute Man". Ruffin has served as a guest judge on the American dance competition reality TV series "So You Think You Can Dance".
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Ballet Minnesota Ballet Minnesota is a classical dance company in Minnesota, United States. Located in Saint Paul in the Arts Section of Lowertown, it has served Minneapolis-St. Paul and Minnesota for 20 years. Founded by Andrew and Cheryl Rist, its stated mission is to be "dedicated to creating and sharing artistry in dance through public presentations and education."
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Chicago Dance Crash Chicago Dance Crash is an American hip hop/contemporary dance company based in Chicago, Illinois. Employing an eight-member ensemble and several artistic associates, the company tours year round while sustaining a calendar year ‘season’ of local premiers and commercial work as well as a spring/fall educational outreach program. The company has received widespread critical acclaim while being considered one of the most notable American dance companies to emerge during the first decade of the 2000’s.
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Celtic Woman Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish musical ensemble conceived and created by David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes, a former musical director of the Irish stage show "Riverdance." In 2004, he recruited five Irish female musicians who had not previously performed together: vocalists Chloë Agnew, Órla Fallon, Lisa Kelly and Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt, and shaped them into the first lineup of the group that he named "Celtic Woman", a specialty group. Downes chose a repertoire that ranged from traditional Celtic tunes to modern songs.
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Khandi Alexander Khandi Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as dancer in 1980s and was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988–1992.