Alex & Victoria Arizpe
Uptown Productions

Patricia Astorga
Sabor Mexico

Robin Rettig Carlson
Dance Force Productions

Gary Connor
Wyld Styl

Kenneth Epting
Exclamation Dance Company

Harrison Guy
Urban Souls Dance Company

Alex and Victoria Arizpe
Uptown Productions, Inc.

A husband and wife team, Alex and Victoria Arizpe are the CEO’s of Uptown Productions, Inc. and co-founders and associate directors of both the Swingtown Jitterhoppers and the Uptown Street Dance Company. The Swingtown Jitterhoppers specialize in musical theatre style jazz blended with the authentic style of the 1930’s/40’s lindy hop and jitterbug creating an energetic neo-swing style, which they call Jitterhopping. The Uptown Street Dance Company specializes in dance productions which blend technical jazz dance with the dance styles of the 1920’s through present day giving the raw dances of the past and present an exciting, theatrical style. Their most recent choreography credits include “Jitterhoppin”, a world premiere swing ballet for Texas Ballet Theater, under the direction of Ben Stevenson, HITS Theatre productions of the Broadway musicals Seussical the Musical and Carnival at Miller Outdoor Theater, the Super Bowl Commissioners Ball, Dance Houston at the Hobby Center, Arts in The Edge in Shreveport, Louisana, and the Woodlands First Night New Year’s Celebration at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillon. Other choreography credits include Dance Salad at the Wortham Theatre, the Gala performance for the Jewish Community Center’s 25th anniversary of Dance Month , Choreographer’s x 6, the MGM film Rush, the NFL Houston Oiler Dancers, commercials for Foley‘s and MTV, industrials for Ski Do, Verizon Wireless, Nike, Reebok, and El Paso Energy, as well as numerous award ceremonies and corporate events in and around Texas. They are currently on the faculty at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Center teaching jazz, street jazz, and X-dancing (extreme dance).
 

Monica Hand
Ocular Expressions

Reetu Jain
Samudra Fusion Dance Company

Barbara King
Barbara King’s Dance Company

Shakira Massood-Ali (Debbie Scheel)
Solange

Amber Thornton
Bay Area Ballet & Theatre

Tesia Truitt
Planet Funk

Sophia Torres
Psophonia Dance Company

Adrian Walter
Tartanic

Shawn Welling
Planet Funk

Janie Yao
Dance of Asian America