Mia Michaels

From stage to screen, Mia has turned dance into inspired and unique works of passion and beauty. She has rendered her unique style and vision of the craft, which is sought after by other innovators, from celebrities and recording artists to dance companies and educational institutions.

Mia’s choreography for Celine Dion’s A New Day under the direction of Franco Dragone at Caesars’ Palace in Las Vegas has received stunning reviews. The New York Times raved, “The greatest pleasure…was the go-for-broke physicality of the choreography”. The show features a cast of 50 dancers and is two hours of pure dance artistry. Currently her work can be seen on Cirque du Soleil’s first touring show, Delirium, which premiered March 2006. She has also created works for numerous recording artists including Madonna, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Anna Vissi, and Prince. Read More...

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Born in detroit Michigan, Cindy Minowa began her intense training with jazz, ballet, lyrical, tap, and hip hop at Annette & co. at the age of 8. She moved to California to pursue her dream as a dancer and continued to train at Jimmie defore Dance center, Millenium, Edge, and Debbie Reynolds. In 2004, as a dancer/choreographer, she joined Kaba Modern where she learned her techniques and skills for breaking, locking, whacking, popping, and house. Shortly after joining, she was trusted to become the coordinator and lead the team for 2006 and 2007. During this period, they earned the title of USA champion and became 2nd at the world hip hop international competition in 2007. From an early age, Cindy was heavily involved in the competition scenes such as Tremaine, New York Dance Aliance, LA Dance Force, Hall of Fame, and Urban Jamm, where she received scholarships and awards. In the hiphop competitive scene, she competed in Vibe, Fusion, Bustagroove and was recently exposed on Randy Jackson’s “America’s Best Dance Crew”. Since then she appeared on various television programs including the Asian excellence awards, Fox Really Awards, VMA Awards, Yeo’s Commercial, and the Summer Mele concerts. She was also recently featured in the print category, the summer Nike catalog. Currently she is traveling all aroung the world to do what she loves doing the most; dance, performing and teaching to spread the love and inspiration.

Eddie Garcia

Eddie's wide career has spanned video, television, live appearances and concert tours.

Concert include Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson (3 world tours), Jennifer Lopez, Sheryl Crow, Paul Abdul, and many others. He is also well known for his choreography for the film "In The Houze".

His dance has featured in the television commercial and video choreography for Jennifer Lopez, where he worked on multiple projects including the Today Show, the MTV Video Awards and Subaru.

Leann Alduenda

A sought after instructor and choreographer in jazz, lyrical and tap. Leann has been teaching in Southern California and surrounding areas for over 16 years.

Company work includes: Rhapsody in Taps, Common Ground Dance Co., Jazz Spectrum Dance Co., Motion Tribe and has had appearances on Mad TV.

As well being an On Cue LA Dance faculty member, Leann is currently a member of the newly formed BARE Dance Co. under the direction of Mike Esperanza. She is the Artistic Director of the Jimmie DeFore Dance Center, where she directs the teen performance company, co-directs the scholarship program, and co-directs the faculty/scholarship showcase “Pulse”.

Ryan Lohoff

Ryann is the energy of the On Cue LA dance faculty; a versatile dancer known for his fast feet and high energy across the USA and abroad.

He is currently an instructor at the 'Edge Performing Arts Center'.

Recent television credits include performing on the new CBS Star Search and on FOX television’s 30 Seconds To Fame.

Stage shows include San Francisco Ballet’s The Nutcracker as the Nutcracker Prince, a celebrity tribute for Buddy Epson and performances in Gregg Russell’s tap company, Tapsounds Underground.

Keith Clifton

Keith is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, musician & composer and a business owner & Director.

Keith Clifton has been in business as a dancer/ teacher & choreographer for the last 2 and one half decades. His notable TV moments include 5 Dr. Pepper commercials, 3 Wendys Ads, a Dodge commercial, a McDonalds commercial and a Levis screen advert. Other T.V. specials include The Academy awards, Tim Conway, The Carpenters, Wolfman Jack and David Copperfield.

Broadway Musicals include 42nd Street ( Merrick Prod.), George M. (Lead), Oliver (Lead), My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line ( Vegas) and Anything Goes starring Ellen Travolta, for which he choreographed, danced and won the Dramalogues Critics Choice Award for Best Choreography.

He has traveled as a guest artist to perform with regional ballet companies in lead roles such as Nutcracker, Coppelia, Swan Lake and Firebird. He staged and directed the entire Nutcracker ballet for The Irving Ballet of Dallas Texas . In 93’ was commissioned to restructure the entire jazz and tap syllabus for The New Zealand Association of Modern Dance and has not only taught nationally but in Japan , Australia , Canada , San Salvador and Guatemala.

In 1989 He and other partners co-founded L A Danceforce and Edge Studios of Hollywood. Currently he is running his own studio in Huntington Beach Ca. with his wife and partner Linda Clifton and their 3 children. Also has developed an act with his son and younger brother in which they play guitars, bass and drums and tap dance for various benefits nationally. He just wrote the music for Carvel Ice Cream commercials and is continuing in the arts as his passion and occupation.

Tim Stevenson

Tim is not only part of the On Cue LA Dance Faculty but is also one of today’s most innovative choreographers, producers, and song writers.

In choreography he has worked with some of the industry’s greatest performers like Jennifer Lopez, Jo Dee Messina, Chris Rock, Ty Herndon, Destiny’s Child, and Stacie Oricco, to name but a few.

Tim comes from an extensive background in all styles of dance and has performed on stages, concerts, television award shows and music videos with Jennifer Lopez, Boys II Men, Usher, Brandy, TLC, Jennifer Love Hewitt and many more.

Gustavo Vargas

The On Cue LA Dance Faculty also includes Gustavo Vargas, originally from Mexico City, Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas. He’s been dancing professionally for 7 years. He has danced, choreographed and toured for artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Usher, Pink, Mya, Alicia Keys, Paulina Rubio, Roselyn Sanchez, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias, N’Sync and Jessica Simpson to name but a few.

He has also danced on Television shows such as Eve, 7th Heaven, Drew Carey, Boston Public, Nikki Cox, The Parkers, The Grammys and Janet Jackson MTV-Icon. He has worked on movies such as The Bachelor, Be Cool, Dirty Dancing, Havana Nights, Spanglish, Master of Disguise, Along Came Polly and Rent.

He has also made his acting debut on the TV show “Strong Medicine”.

Kelly Devine received her B.F.A. in Dance from Chapman University and is currently of the San Clemente High School Dance Department.

She has worked with Nike, New Balance, Hard Tail, Trina Turk, KMS International, and Lily Chueng.

She has choreographed for The CASA Show, SOCSHA, and is an established instructor whose choreography has won many prestigious awards.

Best known for his starring role as “Wade” in the box office hit You Got Served, Christopher Michael Jones is a true triple threat with performance credits as actor, dancer and vocalist that include Broadway touring companies such as Camelot and The Secret Garden, dancing for Britney Spears, P.Diddy, Busta Rhymes, Jessica Simpson, N'Sync, Shorty 101, Dream, Nike, Adidas, Sketchers, Pepsi, Disney, Intel and Mac Cosmetics to name a few. Plus a variety of commercials and modeling/print jobs. He also has had television and film appearances such as Big Mommas House 2, Movin' too Fast, Forrest Gump, "O", CSI-Miami, Malcolm in the Middle, American Dreams, Six Feet Under, Will and Grace, Judging Amy, Mad TV, The Drew Carrey Show, Eli Stone and Days of Our Lives.

As a choreographer, Christopher is currently working with such artist as Ashley Rose, Eva from Holland and Geffen Records’ new artist NLT, currently on tour with The Pussycat Dolls. Christopher is well known for his energetic and innovative choreography that he sets on many groups, teams and companies around the world. Based in Hollywood California, he teaches dance regularly in studios throughout Southern California and as a celebrity instructor and choreographer nation and worldwide, at workshops, dance conventions, intensives and competitions such as Source Dance, Hip Hop All Stars, Co. Dance, Entyce productions, PopStarz Inc., Triple Threat, Elite Dance Conventions, FISAF, Skip Entertainment, EMD Productions, Morezap Productions, Fusion and Shine Dance Festival.

Chris and partner Mandy Kerr, are founders and co-owners of their own international dance and production company, Motion Masters. Together they are now the in-house official choreographers for Adidas Asia and are in negotiations for Adidas Global. Chris has just recently returned from teaching and choreographing in China, Guam, Australia, New Zealand and from Holland where he was a judge for the 2006/2007 World Hip Hop Competition. He appears frequently as a celebrity adjudicator on many panels around the world. Christopher is currently preparing for the release of his new feature film Somebody Help Me. Negotiations are underway for his role in You Got Served 2.