Street Styles

Candace Brown (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor with a huge passion for the art of dance. She has taught in Los Angeles as faculty at Debbie Reynolds Studio, Millennium Dance Complex, and Edge PAC. She has also taught around the world in various countries like Japan, Spain, Australia, Russia, Brazil, Greece, Poland, Ireland, and Amsterdam, as well as across the US. 

Korie Genius was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He has studied various styles of Hip-Hop, and specializes in Dancehall as well as styles like Flexing, Krumping, and Popping. Korie is always open to new styles and new ideas. He loves to broaden his visions of dance every day by taking classes and train with the best choreographers in the city.

He has been performing for over a decade in various venues all around America.

Shirlene Quigley was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and has now moved to New York City. She is best known for her work as a professional dancer and teacher. She has performed all over the world at arenas world wide touring with some of the biggest stars of our generation, dancing on television, commercial, film, and in Music videos with artists such as Beyonce, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Destiny's Child, Missy Elliot, Mary J Blige, Jamie Foxx, Ray J, PorcelainBlack, Lil Romeo, Ashanti, Fantasia, Jaheim, Mohombi, and many more. 

Bev Brown is a teaching icon at BDC (most of our Hip-Hop faculty used to take classes with Bev!) She has a way of giving her students the confidence and skillz to stand out in an audition, or at the club. 

In 1991, at the age of 6, Carlos Neto (he/him) trained in martial arts intensively throughout Europe. During the 1990s and early 2000s he achieved recognition at both national and international competitions. In 1998 he joined the cast of a primetime TV series in Portugal, his home country, and had several appearances in the film industry. He moved to the UK in 2004 where he trained as a dancer and also earned his BA and Masters Degree in International Journalism at Cardiff University.

Brooklyn native, Jamie J, has been dancing since the age of 5 and got his break as a choreographer at the age of 11 when he did some work for a block-party in his neighborhood. That first experience fueled Jamie’s passion for performing. While following his dream to be a choreographer, Jamie took a good detour singing in the Grammy Award winning LFT Church Choir under the direction of Hezekiah Walker. While in the choir, Jamie had the opportunity to work with artists such as Babyface, Stevie Wonder, Praz of the Fugees, Shirley Caesar and P. Diddy.

Jared Grimes is a young and vibrant additive in the world of the arts where he is heavily making his mark in Tap and Hip-Hop/Street Jazz. On numerous occasions, he has danced alongside legends such as Wynton Marsalis Gregory Hines, Ben Vereen, Jerry Lewis, Fayard Nicholas and also performed for Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy at the Kennedy Center.  

Javier Madrid also known as ‘Javier Ninja’ is a name known worldwide. With the different styles of dance Javier has learned and integrated, he has managed to develop a unique style of his own.

Javier has the ability to contort his body in ways unimaginable and leaves the audience in awe, craving to see more. Although it may appear that his unique style of dancing is an easy task to accomplish, I can assure you, that is untrue.

Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie has trained extensively in ballet and modern dance, but has found her artistic home in the street dance forms of b-girling (breaking), Hip-Hop and house.

Ephrat began b-girling in Brooklyn in 2002 under Breakeasy (B.I.S crew) and training in Hip-Hop with Leslie Feliciano. Soon after, she was introduced to house music and has been greatly influenced by the New York club scene ever since.