Choreographers

Ian Eastwood

Ian Eastwood began dancing at age 10. He has been a dancer/choreographer for Redefinition, ICON Ent., Viscous, Dance 2XS Chicago, ThrowdownEntertainment, Giordano Dance (youth performance group) One World DanceTheater,as well as a 2009 Cast Member of Monsters of Hip Hop/The Show L.A. Winner of many competitions, including the Hall of Fame Nationals Solo Showdown Champion, Ian has appeared in Perkin’s “Seafood Stomp” National TV ad, has taught 3 Boogiezone Community Classes and numerous classes at the Millennium Dance Complex in N. Hollywood. He has hosted and taught 3-class collaboration workshops for Young Lions with: Nick DeMoura ,Jaffar Smith, Laura Edwards and Ava Bernstine ,Jillian Meyers,David Moore,Tucker Barkley,Tony Czar,Keone Madrid and Lyle Beniga.

Recently, Ian has completed teaching workshops in: Mexico City,New York City/New Jersey , Houston (SoReal Cru Studio), as well as extensive workshop tours of Germany and the Netherlands,Poland,Spain and Italy and was just named as a faculty member to Coastal Dance Rage.

Ian was selected by recording artist Trish Campbell and choreographer Luther Brown from over 130 videotaped submissions to work with Luther and perform with Trish at the Monsters of Hip Hop Finale Showcase in Orlando,and just choreographed a piece for Monsters of Hip Hop/The Show 2010.Recently,Ian was Assistant Choreographer(to Kevin Maher) and principal dancer in a music video for recording artists “He Met Her” .While repping his own line of Young Lions clothing, Ian is also sponsored by The Other Duck.

Lyle Beniga

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Olivia Gonzales

Nicknamed “Chachi” by her family.

Most people think the nickname came from Scott Biao’s character “Chachi’ on Happy Days, but actually Chachi is short for muchachita; which, in spanish means “little girl”. She was born in Houston, Texas, the youngest of 5 siblings. With such a big family, it called for a fun upbringing doing lots of different things just being around her older brothers and sisters. Early on, her my mom and dad told her to pick something she wanted to do and to do it well. So, at age 6, she picked ballet and she enrolled me at a nearby dance studio where she trained for three years. At around the age of 9 she went to a dance event where she saw for the first time a hip hop dance crew.

Coincidently, it just so happened to be Moons’ Marvelous Motion. Instantly, she was hooked and told her parents that this was what she wanted to do.

Immediately, she could feel the music and instinctively wanted to move differently than she ever had in ballet. Within the same month she enrolled in a new middle school and by a stroke of luck it was one of the only few schools in Houston that had a hip hop dance crew. She was extremely shy at first and hid behind her mom when she was first introduced to the new dance instructor.