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About Us

Our Team of Instructors and Helpers
Our Business
Our Dance Classes
Our Performers Mar 3
Our Dance Students
What our students say about us Aug 30

The Dance Classes Toronto ™ team consists of:

• Chuan Chee - President of Toronto Dance Inc., instructor, marketing, publicity, web master
• Darren and Melvine Baird - instructors, class assistants, dance hosts
• Lisa Fender - instructor and class assistant
• Iryna Iaremchukk - instructor
• Jamie Perada - instructor and class assistant
• Sean Kirby - instructor and class assistant
• Caitlin Wellman - instructor
• Jessica Jenkins - instructor
• Chachi - instructor
• Lindsay Kramer - instructor
• Gorete Almeida - instructor
• Anna Lampignano - instructor
• (several other class assistants)

Aside from running fun beginner group dance classes, Dance Classes Toronto ™ is also available for:

• wedding dance choreography or bridal packages
• dance lesson party packages
• special fun dance lesson for dating couples
• specialized dance workshops
• ballroom dancing and salsa dancing on planned dance outings
• specialized corporate group dance lessons (eg, team-building, Christmas party)
• corporate/party/wedding shows/performances
• private and semi-private dance lessons for faster learning
• gift certificates for all occasions
• dance hosting
• public demos that help promote awareness of dance

If you wish to contact any of us, please go to the "Contact Us" page.

Our Business

Dance Classes Toronto focuses on fun and quality in our instructional classes, practices, and parties. All of these are geared specifically for beginner dancers. Toronto Dance is one of the few dance schools in Toronto that specializes in beginner lessons so we excel in teaching absolute beginners.

We have fun instructors and assistants. Look through our class/lesson . Toronto Dance Salsa runs dancing instruction class/classes and Salsa lesson/lessons.

We also provide Wedding Dance Choreography lessons.

Our Dance Classes

Our classes focus on the beginner dancer and cater to young working professionals. We focus on fun and quality in the classes. The instructors are extremely qualified and have been teaching for many years.

Please check out the variety of classes offered. We also teach private, semi-private, and wedding dance choreography classes in Latin, Ballroom, Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Swing.

Our Performers

For performances at parties, events, or weddings, the following people are available
( for more info and photos):

• Katya Trubina and Kamil Studenny - latin
  They are 2006-2008 Adult Canadian Latin Champions (#1)
• Karolina Paliwoda and Anton Belyayev - ballroom and latin
  They are 2005-2008 Canadian 10-Dance Champions (#1)
  They ranked #5 in the World 10-Dance Championships (2007).
• Anastasia Trutneva and Alan Gilin - ballroom and latin
  They are 2006-2007 Youth Canadian Ballroom and Latin competitors (#1)
• Karolina Holody and Daniel Studenny - ballroom and latin
  They are 2006 Youth Canadian Ballroom and Latin #2
• Gorete Almeida and Roland Semprie - Salsa

Our Dance Students

The majority of our students range in age from 20 to 40 years old. You can see photos of them in our photos page. About 20% of them are singles in Latin-Ballroom and about 50% of them are singles in Salsa-Nightclub.

For our group classes, we have students who travel from throughout GTA, Brantford, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville, Brampton, Mississauga, Aurora, Maple, Barrie, Richmond Hill, Markham, Ajax, Oshawa, Peterborough and Colbourg.

For our private lessons or wedding dance preparation lessons, we have students from as far as Niagara Falls, Sudbury, Quebec City, New York City, Cincinnati, Dallas Texas, Orange Country California and London England!

Check what students have to say about Dance Classes Toronto in Testimonials.

Chuan Chee - President of Toronto Dance Inc., instructor, marketing, publicity, web master

Chuan Chee

Chuan started dancing in 1985 and started dancing with Jean in 1994. Together they competed in DanceSport from 1997 to 2003 starting at Pre-Bronze and ending as Championship Standard finalists and Gold Latin finalists. In Standard, they were approximately 15th in Canada! They have appeared in numerous TV shows, performances (including large black-tie galas), newspaper articles and magazines. Chuan dances and teaches Latin (International and North American styles), Standard/Ballroom (International and North American styles), Salsa (on 1), Merengue, Bachata, Swing and West Coast Swing. Chuan has helped write a book about ballroom dancing. Chuan has been a member of the University of Toronto Ballroom Dance Club since 1988 and been on its committee since 1992. See an excellent article about UTBDC in the University of Toronto alumni magazine called Shall We Dance?.

Chuan is the instructor for the following classes:

• Latin-Ballroom level 1
• Latin-Ballroom level 2
• Latin-Ballroom level 3
• Latin-Variations level 4
• Ballroom-Variations level 5
• Latin-Ballroom level 6
• Latin-Ballroom level 7
• Latin-Ballroom level 8
• Latin-Ballroom workshops
• Wedding Dance Choreography

Darren and Melvine Baird - instructors, class assistants, dance hosts

Melvine and Darren Baird

Darren and Melvine Baird moved in 2002 to Toronto from Newfoundland where they successfully ran their Ballroom and Latin Dance Clubs at their university and outside the university. They have been dancing since 1998. Darren and Melvine dances and teaches Latin (International style), Standard/Ballroom (International and North American styles) and Salsa (on 1), Cardio Salsa, and Merengue. Darren and Melvine are instructors for the following classes: Latin-Ballroom level 1 Latin-Ballroom level 2 Wedding Dance Choreography

Lisa Fender - instructor and class assistant

Iryna Iaremchuk - instructor

Iryna Iaremchuk

Irina Iaremchuk has been teaching and choreographing Latin and Ballroom in the Ukraine since 1990 and has moved in Toronto Dec 2007. She was the president of the Dance Sport Club "Vdokhnoveniie (Inspiration)" (a total of 6 instructors). She was also the artistic director of the Ballroom Dance Ensenble of Vinnytsya National Medical University since 2003. Her own daughter is the #1 Latin champion in the Ukraine. Irina is an instructor for the folloowing classes: Latin-Ballroom level 1 Latin-Ballroom level 8 Wedding Dance Choreography private lessons

Jamie Perada - instructor, class assistant

Jamie Perada

Jamie helps in the Salsa-Nightclub and Latin-Ballroom classes. She has completed Salsa-Nightclub levels 1-6 and Latin-Ballroom levels 1-7. Jamie is an instructor for the following classes: Latin-Ballroom level 1 private lessons Jamie and Sean were featured in an article in the Toronto Star: .

Sean Kirby - instructor, class assistant

Sean Kirby

Sean helps in the Salsa-Nightclub and Latin-Ballroom classes. He has completed Salsa-Nightclub levels 1-6 and Latin-Ballroom levels 1-7. Sean is an instructor for the following classes: Latin-Ballroom level 1 private lessons Sean and Jamie were featured in an article in the Toronto Star: .