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((Jason Cerda, Cerdafied Dance Studios))
I’ve actually have been dancing my whole life before I was a singer. I danced since I was five years old. I would do talent shows at my schools and my high schools. You know, I watched Michael Jackson on TV and Usher and Justin Timberlake and people like that, and I would just look up to them
and it was like an itch I had as a young kid.
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((Jason Cerda, Cerdafied Dance Studios))
In this area, I feel it has so much talent. There’s so many good dancers in the area that don’t get the exposure that they deserve. Everybody always feels like they need to go to New York or L.A. or Miami and I disagree. I think that there’s a lot of talent here. Just because D.C.’s known for politics, doesn’t mean that we can’t be known for entertainment as well.
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((Gabrielle Odom, Hip-Hop and Street Jazz Dance Teacher))
A passion of mine is building other dancers and making them better. So, watching their growth
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is really fulfilling for me. So, that’s where my passion comes from, from teaching and from dance as well.
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((Jason Cerda, Cerdafied Dance Studios))
We dabbled in entertainment. There’s a lot of big artists that have come from this area. Chris Brown, Marvin Gaye, Alia,
Timbaland, Missy Elliott, Pherrell, but nobody gets the notoriety as a dancer.
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((Jason Cerda, Cerdafied Dance Studios))
When you go to L.A. it’s very, very competitive there. You can’t just be good in L.A. You have to be amazing. So, the goal here is to prepare you as much as we can in every style so that when you go there, you’re not completely lost and you have a chance to succeed and to represent, hopefully, the D.C. area.
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