Meet the Company

  • Katie Bow

    Katie Bow discovered the wonderful world of dance at the age of nine and has been fully immersed ever since. She began her training in ballet, tap, jazz, and modern and considers herself lucky to have then been exposed to hip-hop and step after being accepted into her high school’s dance program. Being that dance…

  • Dazil Aquino

    Born and raised in Queens NY, Dazil was exposed to a diverse spectrum of music and cultures throughout his upbringing. In the late 90s and early 00s, Hip-Hop‘s influence on Dazil became more pronounced as he attended schools in the Jamaica area of Queens. Fitting in meant reciting all the bars of the hottest rap…

  • Mona Tsutsui

    Mona started dancing when she was 5 years old at Peridance Center in ballet, had some experience in figure skating along the way, and continued with ballet throughout high school. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts as an instrumental major (playing piano and violin), while taking ballet,…

  • Annika Norden

    Annika grew up in Vermont where she first started dancing. After training in mostly ballet and contemporary, she was introduced to the urban dance scene at the University of Michigan. She has since moved to Brooklyn and joined EPIC Motion where she continues to move and groove with a beautiful community of dancers.

  • Kendra Ing

    Kendra started dancing seven years ago, primarily training in contemporary and modern dance. After joining Serendipity Dance Troupe in 2017, she expanded her training to urban styles and has since been proud to be able to join ISA and EPIC Motion! Her style combines contemporary and urban styles, and is a big fan of searching…

  • Shuhan Xie

    FALL CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Shuhan was first introduced to the underground hip hop dance scene in 2014 at the age of 15 and began training in various street styles such as hip hop, popping, locking, breaking, waacking, street jazz, and urban dance in addition to having fundamentals in ballet and tap dance from previous years. While…

  • Jane Bowers

    Born in China and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, Jane has been a member of EPIC Motion since Season 10. She spent her childhood training exclusively in ballet, before expanding her movement vocabulary during college to include hip hop, jazz, modern, and West African. For three years, Jane served on the senior staff of the…

  • Charisse Anne

      THE DROP DIRECTOR Charisse Anne started dancing at the age of 13 years old in the styles of jazz and hip-hop, but has realized her love for waacking, voguing, and house since she transplanted to New York City from sunny San Diego, California in 2009. She has trained with multiple teams along the West Coast…

  • Valerie Chan

    FALL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Val Chan joined the New Jersey dance community in 2010 on Project D’s first training team, and continued to dance with the PD Fambam for 4 years. After moving to New Brunswick, NJ, Val joined ‘The Society’ where she refined hip-hop fundamentals and began building confidence in freestyle. Val took long hiatus…

  • Janice Tsai

    SPRING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Janice has danced in some form since she was young — with most of her formative training in ballet and traditional Chinese dance, later focusing on urban choreography. At Rutgers University, she danced and led Verse|One, an open-level urban dance team focused on promoting inclusivity and building community through dance. Later, she…

  • Jared Giles

    From Louisville, KY, Jared Giles started dancing at 17, when he and two of his friends decided to start a group and perform at parties and talent shows around town. Jared continued his training , mainly in hip hop and street jazz, in North Carolina as a member and leader of Kamikazi Hip Hop Dance…

  • Gaby D’Amato

    Gaby, also known as Gibby (her other Gemini half) is a born and raised Brooklyn native. She was first initiated into the dance community at 9 years old when she took the stage as an Irish Step dancer. It was only forward from there. Throughout her teen years she trained in Ballet, Contemporary & Hip…

  • Marisa Aquino

    SPRING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Marisa began dancing at the tender age of 5 in Ballet class, which she eventually got bored with. Soon after she was introduced to Jazz Dance which was definitely more fun, but then at 12 years old discovered the love of her life, Hip-Hop Dance. Inspired by MC Hammer’s dancers at the…

  • Anika Fanlo

    FALL CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Anika (Anne-eh-kuh) traded swim practices for dance rehearsals her freshman year of high school soon after watching Kaba Modern’s legendary Vibes 8 set on youtube. Since then, she’s navigated her way through various NJ teams: Fr3sh Jrs, UFPx, UFP Company, and (after a 4-year hiatus because she’s crazy and attended pharmacy school…

  • Michelle Duong

      Michelle started her dance journey with her junior high school dance team in Brooklyn, where she first learned choreography and performed for a showcase hosted by Dancewave. Her style integrated street hip hop dancing with introductory ballet and contemporary. She went on to competing and showcasing at the collegiate level at Stony Brook University,…