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Bret Leake                            Hip Hop & Lyrical Jazz

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Bret Leake has been dancing for 21 years now, he started when he was ten at "On Your Toes School of Dance" out of Eugene, Oregon.  He has taken everything from tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, ballet, hip-hop, and swing!  Bret started Touring with the "Zreiak Artistic Perfoming arts Program" traveling all around the United States and England.  When Bret was 18 he studied with Kieth Clifton at the L.A Dance Force where he found his love for Lyrical jazz, at 23 he was chosen to intern at the Broadway Dance Center in New York.  

Bret is very excited to begin teaching at Aloha Dance Studio and looks forward to sharing his passion of dance with all the students!
Estee Mena Katon                                     Tap & Flamenco
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Dulce Catania                      Hip Hop & Contemporary Jazz
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Dulce Catania a recent graduate of Kauai High School has been dancing with Aloha Dance Studio for over 3 years and is currently a Senior Company Member.  She has been teaching ages 6 - adult in Hip Hop & Contemporary Jazz for 2 years.  Dulce is an energetic and a creative  choreographer.  She loves teaching kids and is an inspiration to all ages. 

She most recently won a VIP scholarship for the "JUMP" dance convention on Oahu May 2009 for best dancer from her age group!
 Derienne Lee                        Hip Hop
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Derienne Lee is a current student at Kauai High School and loves spending her free time dancing and teaching at Aloha Dance Studio. She has
been dancing for about six years and is in the Sr. Company. She teaches hip hop, ballet, and tap from all ages. Hip hop dancing is her passion and she
loves sharing it with her students and her hip hop crew, The Situation. As her mom would put it, hip hop saved her life. It has taught her to become
expressive, confident and creative. After high school she plans to continue her love to dance. Recently, she has won a hip hop VIP dance scholarship at a
Drop Dance Intensive workshop here on Kauai. Derienne is very inspired to teach and keeps motivated by her students passion to dance.

Whitney Pigao                            Lyrical

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Whitney Pigao’s dancing is her absolute passion! She was born and raised in Lihue, Kauai.  She attends Kauai High School as a sophomore.  She has been dancing with Aloha Dance Studio since she was 6 years old and is one of the very few original dancers who started with the studio the day it opened, that is still dedicated to the studio. For as long as she can remember she has loved dancing!  Whitney was very lucky to have been a part of Aloha Dance Studio Junior Company when she was in 6th going onto 7th grade.  After a few recitals of working hard she was asked to apart of the Senior Company in 8th grade which was my goal at the time.  In 8th grade she won first place in her school talent show which she then went on to winning Brown Bags to Stardom in the dancing category for Hawaii.  In 6th grade she was picked to compete in California with a dance team Excel.  Since her very first lyrical class at the JUMP Convention she was sure that lyrical was going to be her absolute passion.  She is so very thankful to have an opportunity to teach kids what she has grown to love!

 

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