Jojo Zolina

@jojozolinadance

Class Description: Body maintenance, breathwork, fusion of hands, arms and footwork movements with Sensual groove energy to connect to your powers.

Dance Style: Waacking, Vogue, Jazz Funk, House, Modern, Afro and Indigenous Filipino.

Credits 💪🏽: Founder of 333nergy and Dance Formative. Overall Father of House of La Douche, Mop Top Family, Over the Influence, House of Xtravaganza, Waacouture.

Commercial Credits: Verizon, Zoey Extraordinary Playlist, Toyota, Heinz, Madonna, La Roux, Della Kit,

Stewart Storyteller Iguidez

@stueytellar

Class Description Body maintenance, breathwork, enhancing musicality awareness, performance and style building.

Dance Style: Sequence of choreography with groove, footwork, hip hop and house.

Credits 💪🏽: floorstorm bboy crew / Over The Influence / The faculty and more.

Ikue Dancer Ueno

@ikuedancer

Class Description: There will be fascia maneuver exercises, vogue and armwork patterns. Mixture of bounces and grooves.

Dance Style: Vogue, Waacking, House, and Contemporary.

Credits 💪🏽: House of La Douche, Human Garage,

Kevin Shazam Li

@funkyshazam

Class Description: There will be tutting and footwork patterns, grid work and fixed points. Mixing in bounces and grooves.

Dance Style: Mixture of tutting, animation, hip hop, jookin and contemporary.

Credits 💪🏽: The Magicians and SEE

Jaybee Bagunu

@the.juiciestmango

Class Description: Focus on grooves, weight changes, musicality exercises, moments for intuitive movement, connecting to sacral and root energies for movement alchemization, & breathwork; building self-trust and coordination.

Dance Style: Choreography with West & East coast hip hop and street style influences

Credits 💪🏽: Ginuwine, Karan Aujla, Kayla Brianna, Moka Only, The Jets, Fama$, Shaw Cable, Trevor Hall, Victoria Leanna & Shalom Melchizedek

Lisa Parans

@lilymoondaughter

Lisa is known as a sports enthusiast, for her humour and her ability to uplift her students and community with her love for dance, wellness and event gathering.

Lisa completed over 500 hours of Registered Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork Teacher Training and graduated from the Lila School of Vinyasa Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga for Youth, and the original Vancouver Karma Teachers Centre for Mediation and remained a loyal student of Carolyn Anne Budgell. Within a decade, she became a seasoned Ashtanga yogi and teacher.

Lisa embodies mindfulness with her daily rituals of journaling, dance, gentle and long hold stretching, meditation and breathwork. Her passion gained her power to connect with her intuition as she creates a joyous, relaxed, positive mind-body experience with her students and community.

Alecia Arnold

@rmt_aleciadawn

Alecia comes with 20 years of experience studying yoga and Thai massage. She is a patient-centered, Registered Massage Therapist and a science-based breathwork researcher and teacher who thrives on learning and sharing the connection of body & breath.

As a massage therapist, she loves to study anything that can be related back to the nervous system and is dedicated to helping you feel connected to the healing capacity in your body. She posts about breathwork on insta at rmt_aleciadawn

Judy “Mixxie”

@judy.mixie

Class Description:  There will be torso and hip/waistline isolation drills followed by Dancehall dance full body grooves and moves while interweaving lessons on Jamaican history and culture to understand and acknowledge the origins of the dance form.

Dance Style: Dancehall 🇯🇲

Credits 💪🏽: Co-Owner of Award Winning Ketch Di Vybz™ Production Company, Ginuwine, Karan Aujla, Kayla Brianna, Moka Only, The Jets, Fama$, Shaw Cable, Trevor Hall, Victoria Leanna & Shalom Melchizedek

Jennifer Mok

@j3nn.m

Jennifer began her movement journey at the age of 4 with the Lorita Leung Dance Academy learning Chinese dance.  What started as a project to maintain her heritage in the western world became a lifelong passion that brought her to travel the world exploring other facets of dance, and then inspiring her to dive into fitness, wellness and yoga.
Jennifer is a certified group fitness instructor, yoga instructor, wellness coach and dancer.  In her spare time,
you’ll find her in new and popular classes around the city, always looking for inspiration through connecting with others and moving.  Her biggest strength is in helping others achieve optimal performance by bringing awareness to the breath, alignment and mindful thought.
Her classes are geared toward supporting her students’ needs and injury prevention.  After all, a life lived well is one lived with ease.

Dance Style: Stretch, ballet, Chinese traditional dance, yoga

Credits 💪🏽: Lorita Leung Dance Academy Chinese dance, certified group fitness instructor, yoga instructor, wellness coach and dancer

Maria Belen

@cha.mo.nah

Maria Belen is a Filipino-Canadian FemPunk trained in W*acking since 2018 with Vancouver’s pioneer street dancers Konichiwaack, Leah Mcfly aka Waackeisha, Astro Zhu, Jojo Zolina, to name a few, and is under the mentorship of OG Punk Viktor Manoel.
In the last few years she facilitates, teaches, and organizes grassroots events for the local W*acking community, having founded the Pw*acktice sessions, W*ack Attack Battles, and the upcoming Punking & W*acking event “Relive History: Ginos II”.
She has performed for the Strathcona Street Festival, VMF, The Main Event, Light Up Chinatown, BSide Radio, and participated in public exhibitions for the Vancouver Park Board, and Summer Movie Nights.
She continues to deepen her Punking knowledge and to be an access point for W*ackers, unlocking their authenticity and personal relationship with the original and evolved styles.

Andrew Abraham Alcalde

@andrewabrahamalcalde
@andrewsclassfitness

Andrew is a bold, highly energetic, enthusiastic BCRPA registered fitness leader specializing in cardio kickboxing, dance fitness and step aerobics. His passion for fitness & community has been a driving force for more than a decade and he continues to foster a positive, inclusive, and supportive environment for ALL individuals. He believes that fitness should be a FUN, therapeutic way to conquer goals and build amazing connections. As a presenter, host and fitness leader, Andrew was named BCRPA’s Fitness Professional of the Year in 2021 and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top Fitness Instructors by IMPACT Magazine in 2021 and 2023

Class Descriptions: CARDIO FITNESS infused with DANCE GROOVES = FUN!

Dance Styles: House, Latin & HipHop. Cardio Dance & Zumba Fitness

Credits 💪🏽:
BCRPA Fitness Theory & Group Fitness
St. John Ambulance CPR & First Aid
BCPRA Cardio Kickboxing Presenter
Zumba Fitness Certified

Commercial Credits:
BCRPA Fitness Professional of the Year, 2021
IMPACT Magazine Canada Top Fitness Instructors, 2021 & 2023

Jonathan Kol

@mixedpn0i

Jonathan Kol, otherwise known as J.C. in the dance community, is a former alumni of RC Palmer High School and took the initiative to start the, first ever, dance squad back in 2005. J.C. has been dancing for close to 20 years now.

He continues to choreograph and perform with House of La Douche at various shows around Vancouver.

Class Descriptions: An all-levels jazz funk class that will challenge anybody! Come get your body’s grooving with a mix of hip hop, jazz and commercial choreography.

Dance Styles: Old school hip hop, grooving, popping, locking, Waacking, vogueing, jazz, heels.

Credits 💪🏽:

2008 Hollywood Summer Tour, Quanah Style Live Performances, Hip Hop International 2007 & 2010, Walang Tulugan Philippines ABSCBN national television show, House of La Douche Live Performance, Fresh Groove Productions (XSS), Praise Team Studios (senior showcase), FlowEthics, Studio 604 (The Recruits). 2010 Winter Olympics, Celebrities Nightclub 2008-2011 (choreographer/ gogo dancer), Pride Parade TD float.

Commercial Credits: Lush Cosmetics, Quanah Style Music Video, Hollywood Summer Tour, Brock Zanroso Music Video.