Samantha Ho
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Full-time Teacher Mobile +971 50 2806362
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Dancing and Teaching Experience: Samantha began dancing at the age of 12 and has immersed herself in it ever since. Her dance repertoire includes Salsa, Argentine Tango, Standard and Latin ballroom, and most recently, Zouk Lambada. Starting with social ballroom classes in 1995, she had her first dance competition in 1997. She moved on to Salsa and Argentine Tango in 2002 in Perth, Australia, under Juan Rando Dance Academy. She developed her love of dance by going on to complete internal training to become an instructor with JRDA in 2004. Samantha has experience not only in teaching various styles of dance, but also in wedding choreography and performance. She has performed at the 2005 Perth Latin Festival, as well as for other corporate events and private functions, in Australia and Singapore. Moving back to Singapore at the end of 2005, Samantha continued free-lance teaching at several dance studios as well as having private students. She continued to pursue her interest in Latin Ballroom, and competed for 2 years in various international competitions held in Singapore, Philippines and Australia, including the 2007 National Capital Dancesport Championships in Canberra, Australia. In 2009, Samantha and Nayan introduced the first Zouk Lambada class to Dubai, bringing about a new passion and growth for this beautiful dance. In December 2009, she also brought one of the renowned instructors and choreographers for Zouk, Alisson Rodrigues Sandi, to Dubai to conduct workshops and further promote Zouk. |
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Nayan Albert
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Founder Mobile +971 552602629
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Dancing and Teaching Experience: Nayan comes with a professional martial arts background. He has Black Belt from Japan Karate Federation Wado Kai and coached a team of Karate players who went on to win National and International medals for his former employer Srilankan Airlines. He was the under 19 national champion in Karate (Fighting) in Srilanka and has a Gold Medal in Common Wealth Karate Championships Representing SriLanka. Nayan Introduced Zouk-Lambada to U.A.E. with Sam in early 2009. He first started learning Brazilian Zouk at Rio Rhythmics in Brisbane Australia. He learned the fundamentals of Zouk from one of the pioneers Tarcisio Teatini Climaco at Rio Rhythmics Dance Academy. Nayan spent hours to shape up his Zouk techniques with the help of Brazilian dance instructor Alisson Rodrigues Sandi who is based in Perth, Australia. Later Nayan attended workshops by famous zouk instructors in Europe such as Ailton Silva (Berlin) and Junior Carvalho (Hamburg), Adilio Porto and Kwok Wan (Amsterdam). In Dubai Nayan teamed up with Samantha, Pedro, Karen, Katharina, Aminu and determined to bring this beautiful dance into prominence. He is one of the founders of Zouk Dubai and is now spreading Zouk throughout the UAE and the Gulf. |
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Assistant Instructors
| Katharina Mueller
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| Aminu Idris
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