Bachata Artists
Tina Cavicchio (she/her) is an international dance artist and founder / director of Next Level Fusion Dance Company. Tina has trained in various styles such as Afro-latin, street dance, and codified dance techniques. Tina has choreographed for multiple dance teams, performances, and college showcases. She has also taught at various congresses/weekenders around the world. She is known and sought after for her social dancing as both a lead and follow, and teaches others her methodology.
Tina is known for her creative fusion choreography and inspiring story telling through her dance. As a queer female lead, follow, and solo dancer, Tina has become a major advocate for individual empowerment and expression. Tina’s goals as a teacher is to challenge her students to push past their limitations, helping them to see their potential, and to empower others along the way.
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Ashley Shaver is a local bachata instructor from Jacksonville Florida and has been teaching bachata for over four years and quickly fell in love with bachata traditional and all of the energy that it brings. Ashley enjoys sharing her passion with her students and loves to watch her students gain confidence and love for music and dance. Joselito De La Cruz Ventura was born and raised in the Dominican Republic and was born into a family of musicians. Joselito has over 16 years of experience in both merengue and bachata and enjoys sharing his knowledge and skill of dancing while focusing on the fundamentals and basics. Our dream is to bring our new style of bachata (estillo wawawa) which intertwines a mixture of dembow, merengue and bachata from Bonao to people all over the world.
Bachatwins was founded in 2016 by Dani & Ramy Cabrera in New York. Initially Bachatwins started this brand as a creative outlet, where they put together all of their artistic ideas and wanted to do things a little different. Over time their brand has developed and has become an icon in the New York Latin Dance Scene. Bachatwins are well known for their style in teaching, inspiration through dance & creativity through videography. Bachatwins strives to create beautiful content for their students and growing fan base. This brings engagement to people allowing them to build a bigger audience and clientele.
Jeffery Michael and Marina teach Salsa and Bachata at Allegro.
Combining a dynamic background in urban and street styles, with a vast knowledge of the history of dance, Jeffery Michael is a professional American dancer and choreographer with over 20 years of experience. He is known worldwide for his highly creative and original narrative fusion pieces.
Jeffery Michael and Marina teach and perform internationally, and their classes are known for truly breaking down the heart of the dance and providing excellent technical instruction to help students grow as dancers.
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Lumyr Derisier is a Boston native who has been an artist dancing and shooting photography for years. With a deep love of dance and a passion for people, Lumyr finds joy in teaching dance, connecting energy with others and experience the creativity of others on the dance floor. This is similar to what he does in his professional photography company of enjoying the whole process of capturing images and creating projects. We mention Lumyr's photography as you may find his beaming smile momentarily hidden by a camera lens while you are at F.O.L.D. Make sure to grab a latin dance with Lumyr while at the congress and you will have so much fun as he makes all who he dances with feel his joy and passion in dance!
We are aware of an issue where on some mobile devices the Right Side of the ticket purchase Window is cut off. We apologize for the inconvenience and we’re working to resolve the issue. PLease be advised that if you simply turn your phone sideways, it will no longer be cut off and you’ll be able to place youR order. Thank you for your patronage, we’ll see you at the Congress! 🙂 – Jessica
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Highlights!
- Newly Renovated Hilton Property Hotel
- 100% Private Event - Rented the entire hotel.
- Food Trucks - Good Eats
- Thursday night Pre-party located at the venue!
Interested in performing, instructing, working the event, being a vendor or being a sponsor? Limited pass exchange available for working at the event, must apply by contacting F.O.L.D. Contact Jessica C. at: foldcongress@gmail.com.
