Karolina was born in Toronto, Canada and started dancing at the age of 4. Her love of dance brought her to NYC at the age of 15 to train and compete at an international level. She was a Canadian Ballroom and Latin Youth Champion, as well as the United States Youth Ballroom and 10 Dance Champion. She continued her success in the Under 21, Adult, and Professional ballroom divisions.
OSKAR WOJCIECHOWSKI
KAROLINA
HOLODY
Oskar was born in Poland and grew up in Brooklyn, NY where he began dancing at the age of 11 after a dance program started at his local church. He quickly fell in love with ballroom, and dedicated his life to perfecting his technique and helping the next generation reach their dance goals. He was the US Junior, Youth, Under 21, and Adult US Ballroom Champion.
ANNA BOHACHOVAS
DAN MALOV
Anna is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine. She fell in love with ballroom dancing at the age of 5. Living in Ukraine she became Runner-up of National Amateur Championship, UK Rising Star Amateur Championship and IDSA World Championship.
At the age of 21 Anna moved to the USA and started to compete in Professional circuit. She has had the joy to dance in Blackpool, International and UK Rising Star finals many times since and also became US Open to the World finalist. Together with Dan Malov they are actively competing as Professionals representing US on all major events.
Dan Malov started dancing at the age of 5 in his home town Poltava in Ukraine. At the age of 10 he moved to England which helped him shape into the dancer he is today. During his time there he became a UK Champion in a two different age groups. When Dan was 19 he decided to move to USA and he became US U21 Ballroom Champion as well as U21 World Ballroom Finalist. In 2020 when Dan teamed up with Anna they started to compete in Professional category. Together they have become Runners-up in Blackpool Rising Star Professional Ballroom and US Open to the World finalist.
Natalie Jolley was born in Hong Kong, and started dancing at the age of 2. She moved to the U.S. when she was 5 years old and continued to train in different dance styles such as Ballet and Jazz. She found her passion of Ballroom dance at the age of 7. She now trains in 3 styles, Ballroom, Latin, and Smooth. Natalie became the first UK Open International Championships Amateur Smooth Champion, as well as Under 21 Smooth Champion and Under 19 Ballroom Finalist. She is a U.S. National Finalist in all three styles, and is now the current U.S. National Amateur Smooth Champion, in addition to being the 3 year undefeated U.S. National Youth Smooth Champion. She is also the 2022 Fordney Foundation Best of the Best Champion, and is champion and finalist in major competitions all around the country. She hopes to continue to spread her love and passion through the art of ballroom dance.
Kiersten Lujan was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is a competitive Amateur International Latin dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Kiersten has earned titles such as World Cup under 19 Champion (Paris, France), Fred Astaire U21 World Champion, Heritage Dance Classic U19 and U21 Champion, and has been a finalist in all National Champion finals. In addition to her competitive pursuits, Kiersten has completed two associate degrees with SCC. Currently, she is pursuing an Undergraduate Degree with Brigham Young University. She served as a teachers assistant for two years at the Brigham Young University Youth Ballroom Dance Camp and has choreographed multiple show numbers for Fred Astaire Dance studios in Scottsdale, winning choreography competitions with her pieces.
BLAKE FOX
WYATT JENNINGS
Blake Fox grew up in Orem Utah where he started dancing in a local elementary school program. He continued dancing in the BYU Youth Program and is a current member of the BYU Ballroom Touring Company. Blake is a Fordney Foundation Best of the Best Champion, a 2x National Amateur Smooth Finalist, and has finaled in several Jr, Youth and Under 21 events in latin, standard and smooth. He has recently returned home from serving a mission for his church in Philadelphia where he spoke spanish.
Wyatt Jennings is a 22 year old from Eagle Mountain, Utah. He began dancing when a teacher invited him to take a social dance class at his middle school. Since then he has danced competitively for 9 years in the Latin, Standard, and Smooth categories. During that time he has placed in several United States national finals. He is also a member of the BYU Ballroom touring company. He is pursuing a professional career dancing and teaching. He loves to teach dance and the life lessons it has taught him along the way.
SABRINA SULIK
SHANDEN HOFFMAN
ALEXANDER CHERNOSITOV
ARINA
GRISHANINA
Alexander Chernositov started dancing at the age of 6 in Saratov, Russia. He got into dancing when a girl in kindergarten asked Alexander if he wanted to join her in a dance class. As a junior and youth competitor he represented Russia in National and European competitions. As an Amateur competitor, Alexander started representing the USA, where he became the USA National 10 Dance Champion, USA Under 21 Latin Champion as well as the UK Open 10 Dance Champion. Currently Alexander is the reigning US Champion, along with Blackpool and World Vice Champions.
Arina Grishanina was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and started dancing at the age of 5. For the next 15 years Arina was learning her dance skills at the Afontovo Dance Club. At the age of 20 Arina moved to Scandinavia to follow her dreams in becoming a dance champion. While living in Denmark, Arina became the Danish Under 21 Latin Champion as well as winning the UK Open Rising Star Amateur Latin and Blackpool Dance Festival Amateur Latin Championships in 2013. Arina is the reigning US Champion, along with Blackpool and World Vice Champions.
Kiersten Lujan
NATALIE JOLLEY
Shanden Hoffman is 22 years old, originated in the city of Lindon, a student at Brigham Young University, and comes from a family of 13 kids. Shanden grew up playing the violin and piano, soccer, and teaching music lessons to pay for his ballroom dance. His ballroom roots are with the Utah elementary ballroom program back in fifth grade, when he was 10 years old. In Junior High, he continued to dance on the Alpine junior high competition team, and then with the Pleasant Grove high school ballroom team for a year and a half. In 11th grade he really focused and delved into the competition world for the rest of his high school years. He traveled to Washington often for a long distance dance partner, and trained as well as taught at the Verve Ballroom there in Lynnwood. He is currently competing, teaching classes and private lessons at Peak Performance Dance Center, as well as instructing ballroom classes at Brigham Young University in Provo.
Sabrina Sulik Hoffman is extremely attentive to detail in both technique and in styling. She was originally trained in Idaho, competing in both individual competition and formation team events. In the summer of 2019 she was invited to tour China with a USA team and performed in cities across the country. Returning from China she started her college education at BYU, participating in their ballroom company. As a coach she has been training couples in all age categories. Her couples have received excellent results, co-teaching with her husband syllabus National champions, several Junior Smooth finalists, and strong adult competitors. She is a 2x United States Amateur Pre-champ Latin finalist. United States Amateur Pre-champ Smooth Champion. Amateur Smooth finalist and semi-finalist at all major competitions in the U.S. She is also the United States Amateur Rhythm Vice-champion.