Cynthia Miller’s passion for travel and dance led her to train at studios in Cuba, New York, London, Munich, Paris and Vancouver. She began teaching dance in public high schools in 1991 when she completed her Bachelor of Education Degree. She teaches a wide range of dance genre including salsa, jazz dance, hip hop, musical theatre, African, tap, ballet, partner acrobatics, contemporary, Bollywood, swing and Latin dance. Her love of dance led her to complete a Master’s Degree in Dance Education in 1996. With a strong interest in multicultural dances, Cynthia also completed her CDTA examination in Cuban salsa and Rueda in 2010. She recently completed a teaching certification course in LaBlast dance fitness with Louis Van Amstel. In addition to teaching dance at Gladstone Secondary School, she has been teaching children and adults at Dance Express since 2009.
Shawn Hart’s dancing has always been influenced by his love of music. He began his ballroom dance training at the Picard School of dance in Maple Ridge. Since then, he went on to train with many local, and international ballroom instructors in social, standard and Latin dances such as jive, salsa, samba, west coast swing, lindy hop, rumba, cha cha cha, rueda, fox trot, night club two step, country two step and waltz. Shawn has taught hundreds of people throughout the lower mainland how to dance. He has taught people of all age groups through the VSB Continuing Education program, guest teaching for P.E. and Dance programs in high schools, Dance Express dance school in Burnaby, and many specialty workshops in Ballroom lifts and tricks. He is constantly updating and expanding his skills. His newfound interest in circus arts has led him to train in silks, partner acro and main à main. He is a certified Acrobatic Arts teacher and a certified La Blast instructor.