Having taught dance from the age of 19, his passion for dance and his understanding of social dancing are broad, as is his knowledge of Latin music and history. Junyan tirelessly advocates a focus on partner connection and how music and dance interrelate. He has been a guest judge for various competitions around the world.

A truly diverse dancer, Junyan’s current love is Brazilian Zouk, and he is boldly trailblazing the Zouk scene in Toronto. He also performs & teaches salsa (on1, on2, NY-style, casino rueda) and tango (salon, milonguero, and nuevo).

In Zouk she discovered the same qualities that she loved about blues dance, layered with the smooth, flowing movements that Zouk music inspires. With her partner Junyan, Danielle co-founded Mazouka Dance Company, the first and largest Zouk school in Toronto. Since then they have been teaching, choreographing and performing zouk locally and abroad. Together they run “Zouk Me” Tuesdays, a weekly zouk venue, and have been a driving force in the development of Toronto’s fast-growing zouk scene.

Emily originally started Jazz and Contemporary training at the age of 13. Since then her whole energy and efforts have been thrown into the world of music and dance. She has managed to learn many different dance styles has managed to expand her skills to include, instruction, management, producing and organizing events and presentations and creating a line of dance clothes and shoes.

Today, in addition to teaching in fitness centers, Emily continues to train the new generation of dance lovers and different dance teams in her own studio, “Hong Kong Studio”. Her humble nature keeps her teaching because she believes that she herself is always “learning by teaching”. She is grateful to all the teachers and students who have helped her grow as a dancer to where she feels compelled to give back as much as she has received and more.

Daniel was born in Bahia, and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He graduated from Universidade do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (UERJ) in 2002 in Physical Education and Sports.

Before moving to Brisbane, Australia in December 2007, Daniel was teaching an average of 22 group dance classes per week. The dance styles he was teaching included Tango, Samba de Gafieira, Samba no Pe, Bolero, Zouk (Lambada), Forro, Salsa and Soltinho (Brazilian swing). As well as teaching, Daniel performed for many private and corporate functions and congresses around Brazil. Daniel was by far one of the most popular teachers in Jaime Arôxa’s dance school . He returns to Brazil yearly to visit the school and to teach the students who miss him dearly.

Nataliya also spent a few months in Brazil where she trained in other Brazilian partner dances like samba de gefieira and forro at some of the biggest and most recognised dance schools in Brazil.

She has attended numerous Brazilian Zouk congresses and learnt from the best instructors of that dance style around the world.

Mohammed and Nataliya became partners in 2009 and are now teaching and promoting Brazilian Zouk together. Their style developed through learning from many of the leading zouk teachers around the world.

Luizinho Astral was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and started dancing when he was only 10 years old at Rita a famous ballet school in Rio.

He was first introduced to Lamabada when he was 15 years old and began to dance with his sister as his dance partner.

Most of his learning was through self-instruction, by watching other people dance. With in a short period of time he was able to master the basic steps and eventually expand his dance skills to learn some of the more complicated moves. It was during that time that he and his sister participated in a dance competition and managed to win first prize.

His love and passion to dance drove him to become one of the best dancers of lambada at that time, adding his own style with proper figures and steps which other dancers started to adapt very quickly.

The first time he saw Zouk was when he was 17 years old in a bar called “Ilha dos Pescadores.” Five years later Astral he entered Jaime Arotxa’s school of dance of Jaime Arotxa. There he continued to improve his dance skills, while learning other styles of dance including, bolero, samba de gafieira, forró, salsa, rock swing. But the dance he really fell in love with was Zouk, and it soon became the main focus of his career.

In January 1999, Luizinho came to Spain and started to work in an orchestra, at the same time, he opened a school of dance called Lamzouk. In the first year he had more than 100 students and taught various styles of dance, including zouk, salsa, samba, bolero, bachata, merengue, funk.

In the year 2003, Luizinho with his partner Jane Gomes participated in the first congress Salsorro in the capital of Galicia, sharing the program some of the best dancers of the world.

Today Luizinho continues to give classes in Zouk, Samba garfieira, Salsa, Bachata while performing Zouk and participating in Zouk congresses in Spain, Brazil, Czech Republic and other countries.

He continues to convey his passion for Zouk, both the dance and the music, to others. He has stated that when he is dancing it seems that the time has stopped and only the music and his dance partner exist. When he is teaching he tries to not only teach his students the dance steps, but to show them that there is something deeper, enjoying the dance and feeling the music. He feels it is this quality of his teaching that has made him such a successful and sought after teacher.

Kim has had the pleasure of hosting dance marathons and partnering with exceptional dancers from around the world such as Israel Szerman & Patica, K-Yo, Pablo Schmoller, Willem Engel, Junior Cervila, Daniel Raphael, Leon Gordin, Luciana, Pedro Mesquita, Patrick Carvalho, Dennis Mook, and Mari Hodges. She has taught and performed in growing Brazilian dance scenes such as Knoxville, Washington DC, Boston, Montreal, Toronto; and at dance congresses such as the New York International Salsa Congress, the DC Bachata Festival, and the Porto Seguro Zouk Congress.

After just one year of arriving in Perth he traveled and performed at the Sydney Salsa Congress 2008/2009/2010 and at the Malaysian Salsa Festival 2008/2009 along with competing at the Australian Salsa Classics 2008 as the representative from Western Australia. He has taught in Singapore and Malaysia introducing zouk into the community in 2008 and 2009, which turned out to be a highly unexpected success! Thus bringing him back to Singapore and Malaysia and other countries throughout Asia many times since to teach both zouk and introduce samba de gafieira.

2009 brought many new adventures for Alisson. He was invited to perform zouk at the Sydney Salsa Congress 2009 and to choreograph and perform a zouk item for the Australian Dance Festival 2009. His talent has taken him to the 2nd Annual International Brisbane Salsa and Brazilian Dance Congress (2009) to teach and perform with his partner and his zouk group. Alisson then spent 2 months in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand teaching, performing and choreographing. While in Singapore, Alisson choreographed the first zouk team in Singapore (for Two-Left Feet School). In 2010 Alisson choreographed the first Forro Team to perform at the Sydney Salsa Congress which was a great success with the public promoting Brazilian dance styles and he was also Invited to teach, perform and DJ at the Brazil Central Zouk Lambada Congress in Australia with his partner. Still in 2009 he was invited to teach, perform and DJ in Dubai/UAE, and due to a great response he was invited again in 2010, this time with his dance partner.

He has created Brazuka, the Brazillian wing which Alisson heads for Juan Rando Dance Academy. He is an aspiring and ambitious man with a forward view towards making the Brazillian Rhythms a huge success everywhere he goes.

Back in Brazil Alisson has been dancing for over 7 years. His regimented training in jazz, contemporary and his other Latin and Brazilian styles has made him a flexible and strong dancer. He has performed at a variety of Congresses in Brazil such as Baila Floripa 2005, 2006, 2007 one of the biggest and most prestigious Dance Congresses held in Brazil. He has traveled to Australia to further his studies and in the process maintain his dancing while teaching others to explore a whole new dance world.