Michael Rosales Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Repertoire, Audition Skills

Michael was born in Manila, Philippines, and moved to San Francisco at the age of 9 where he trained and danced with several local groups within the San Francisco Bay Area. His training in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop, Latin Jazz and Color guard makes him one of the most sought after dancers/ choreographers in the Nation.

He has danced for recording artists such as Deborah Cox, Brooke Hogan, Wisin y Yandel, Don Omar, Olga Tanon, Ivy Queen, and Macy Gray. Michael has also been on a National and International Tour of the Tony and Emmy award winning show BLAST! as a lead and feature performer and was in a new show called CYBERJAM which played in the West End of London, where he was also the Assistant Choreographer. Michael has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and has appeared in the Blockbuster movie RENT, the Latin Billboard Awards, Latin Grammy's and the Latin Teen Choice Awards.

He has taught classes at the San Francisco Dance Center, University of Houston, North Carolina State University, Pepperdine University, University of Miami and several different studios throughout the country. Michael has produced and choreographed shows for Busch Gardens Theme Park in Florida, Sea World in Texas and the FED EX Orange Bowl Halftime show. He is a staff member of the US Performing Arts Camp, which tours throughout the country during the summers. He is also the Gold Medal recipient of the 1998 as well as the 2000 Winterguard International World Championships.

Michael currently works with the Hurricanettes Dance line at the Univ. of Miami, the Miami Youth Inc, West Broward High School and is the CEO of Tae Talent Agency in Miami.

Tai Jimenez Ballet, Pointe & Repertoire

Tai Jimenez, a native of Jamaica, New York, began her dance training with Joan Millen Mesh and went on to study at the School of American Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and with Madame Gabriella Darvash. She was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School Ensemble before joining DTH, where she spent 12 years. Her repertory includes many works by George Balanchine, as well as ballets by Glen Tetley, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Sir Frederick Ashton, Bronislava Nijinska, Alvin Ailey, Robert Garland and John Alleyne, among many others. She has appeared as a guest artist with companies across the United States, and made her Broadway debut as Ivy Smith (Miss Turnstiles) in the 1998 revival of On the Town, directed by George C. Wolfe. The versatile Jimenez is also a teacher and choreographer. She has taught dance at the DTH School, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and other institutions. Her choreography has been performed at the International Blacks in Dance Conference, New York City Center, and Dance Theatre of Harlem's Open House series, among other venues. In April, her work will be seen at Aaron Davis Hall in New York City as part of the E-Moves series for emerging choreographers. Jimenez has been featured on the cover of Pointe magazine, and her writing has appeared in both Pointe and Dance Magazine.

John Kloss Tap

John Kloss started to tap inspired by early performances of tap on film, and gained his first training in Chicago with many of tap's masters. John has appeared in the short film Tap Heat, as an ensemble member and soloist with Jazz Tap Ensemble and Especially Tap Chicago, as a founding member of the tap duo The Swift Brothers, and in festival productions such as the St. Louis Tap Festival, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and the Maui Tap Experience. John has also been a featured performer at San Francisco's Bay Area Dance Awards.

Inspired also by the many incredibly gifted performing artists and variety of styles in tap, John's interests have led to a performing resume that includes a notable list of tap artists and work in a wide range of settings. He has performed in concert ensemble choreography of Gregory Hines and Jimmy Slyde, in film choreography by Danny Daniels and Jason Samuels-Smith, with Samuels Smith in early incarnations of the group ACGI ("Anybody Can Get It"), and in numerous events alongside many of today's top tap artists. John has also appeared in festival and other events honoring such luminaries as the Nicholas Brothers, Four Step Brothers Maceo Anderson and Prince Spencer, Peg Leg Bates, Arthur Duncan, and Michael Jackson, and at national conferences of corporations such as Wal-Mart and AT&T.

In 2003, John established the California nonprofit STEPOLOGY, San Francisco's Bay Area Tap Festival, and the festival's concert performance component, the Bay Area Rhythm Exchange. In his roles as founder, director, and performing artist, John's efforts have led to programming which has twice been listed in the San Francisco Chronicle's "Top Ten Dance Performances of the Year", earned an "Access to Artistic Excellence" grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and been described by the San Francisco Bay Times as invoking "…an appreciation of tap's history while inspiring an excitement for tap's present and future.

Elana Anderson Horton

Elana D. Anderson is a performer, instructor, and choreographer. She is an adjunct member of the Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Ensemble, the Corps de Ballet for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and an instructor for the Studio One Dance Conservatory and the Pathways to Development Program.

Ms. Anderson became a member of the artistic team of Deeply Rooted Productions in 1998, and currently serves as the modern dance instructor for its Professional Training Program. She has worked extensively in television, film, opera and the concert dance stage for over twenty-five years. A devoted mother, crafts person, and consummate artist, she has gained the insight, stamina, and determination to succeed at what has come to be her life's work: the enlightenment of other lives through art

Kelsey Paschich

Stephanie Marie Powell Ballet, Modern, Repertoire

Ms. Stephanie Marie Powell is a California native and a recently tenured "full" Professor in Dance at Long Beach City College after just four years. Throughout her academic teaching career she has taught courses in Dance Appreciation, Composition, Classical Ballet, Pointe, Modern Dance, Jazz, Turns, Zumba, Dance Conditioning, Stretch and Relaxation, Dance History, Hip Hop Dance History, Performance Workshop, Yoga and Pilates. Professor Powell is a certified instructor of the New York City Ballet Workout, Zumba, and Body Arts and Science International Pilates with a Dance Specialization. Ms. Powell is a part-time instructor at the University of California, Irvine where she teaches Ballet, Modern Dance and the Etude Ensemble, and is the principal interpreteur of the choreographic works for the legendary choreographer Donald McKayle.
Ms. Powell's dance training began with Cindy Trueblood at the Civic Dance Center in Bakersfield, California and her studies continued on scholarship with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Washington and the School of American Ballet at Julliard in New York City. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Sociology and Education and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance with distinction from the University of California at Irvine as a Chancellor's Fellow where she was honored with the Celebration of Teaching Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. She danced professionally and toured internationally with major dance companies such as the Oakland Ballet Company, the San Francisco Opera, The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Donald Byrd/The Group, Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ms. Powell was a performer in the Los Angeles Pantages Theater production of the Broadway show "Lion King" where she danced featured principal roles as well as performed as a principal singer and actress. Additionally, Powell has modeled internationally for Redken and Trevor Sorbie of the UK. She has appeared on television in the Grammy's, on the Jay Leno Show and has danced commercially for artists such as MC Hammer, Kenny G., Janet Jackson, and Beyonce Knowles.

For the LBCC Dance Program, Powell has fundraised over $25,000 by organizing student involvement in car washes, obtaining hundreds of opportunity drawing prize donations, corporate monetary gifts, costume donations, organizing TV tapings, t-shirt, roses and concession sales. These funds have afforded students and faculty the opportunity to travel out of state to the American College Dance Festivals and purchased Pilates Reformer equipment for our students. She was instrumental in attaining the ASB grant to install a state of the art sprung dance floor in the Q-building Dance Studios. As a scholarly researcher, she is responsible for creating two new online courses for Dance (Dance History and Hip Hop Dance History) to give more students accessible opportunities to attain an A.A. degree from LBCC through the Distance Learning Program.

Powell is the only full-time African-American faculty member in the Theatre, Dance and Film department, and was selected by Human Resources to inspire diversity among new faculty at LBCC in the advertisement brochure. She continues to donate her time as the Artistic Director of the bi-annual "Dance Showcase" in addition to her course load. She incorporates the work of other colleagues in disciplines such as Science, Photography, Graphic Design, Music, Radio, Television, Fashion, Film and Theater to name a few. She is responsible for establishing the first cable television premiere of the "Dance Ensemble in Concert," photographic marketing of Dance Students for publicity and has consistently been recognized by the Viking Newspaper for encouraging student success through Dance. She has directed two "High School Dance Invitational" events where she has recruited the students of twelve (12) local high school Dance programs to perform on the LBCC stage. Powell serves as the Dance Club Advisor and works closely with the campus Outreach and Recruitment Coordinators to support President Eloy's wish for all 4th graders to experience a campus tour. She is also on several College Service committees such as the Fine Arts Association, the Distance Learning Plan Implementation Oversight Task Force and she is a Student Learning Outcome Committee Officer for her department.

As a testament to her reputation and contributions, Powell was a recipient of the Long Beach Post Award for Best Teacher in the city of Long Beach and in March of 2010 she was a nominee for the 2010 "Woman of the Year" Award by the 54th Assembly District's Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal. Professor Powell continues to dance as a performing artist today and has taught and choreographed her own work in contemporary dance and ballet throughout the US, Australia, Europe and Asia. She serves as a volunteer for the NAACP and is on the committee that will organize the International Association of Blacks in Dance Festival in 2011. Powell attends conferences regularly for continued education in her artform to bring up to date information, dance techniques and digital technology to her students in the LBCC classroom. Most recently, she was thrilled to be invited to teach classical Ballet at the world renowned "Debbie Allen Dance Academy" in Los Angeles and performed in her production of the "Hot Chocolate Nutcracker" at Royce Hall-UCLA. Powell was also be featured in an upcoming article as a leading figure in the community in the Cultural Arts Guide for the Long Beach Business Journal. This semester Professor Powell is currently creating a new lively and high energy choreographic work as a faculty choreographer and is the Assistant Artistic Director of the Spring Dance Ensemble in Concert in the LAC campus Auditorium.