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Carlos Garland is trained in and versatile with Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Breaking, Lyrical, Contemporary, Improvisation, various world ethnic dances as well as acrobatics and martial arts.
...Read moreCarlos Garland is trained in and versatile with Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Breaking, Lyrical, Contemporary, Improvisation, various world ethnic dances as well as acrobatics and martial arts.
Carlos began his dance trainingwhen he was 13 years old at Lavilla School of the Arts, and went on to graduate from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, studying dance all four years. During that time he performed in the First Coast Nutcracker as the lead Russian Doll. In his senior year of high school he received a Merit Award in the National Foundation of Advancement of the Arts in Hip-Hop. Afterwards, he attended Jacksonville University, double majoring in Dance and Computer Science.
Carlos has a background in Taekwondo of 7 years, and is a second-degree black belt. He has won Millie Lewis America's Models and Talent Competition for Dance. Carlos and his dance crew Systematic has won BET's 106th and Park dance competition twice in a row, and has been in various national and international commercials. He has danced with Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys Of Dance and performed in their hit show Rock The Ballet. With Bad Boys he has toured Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. Carlos later became a top 20 finalist on the Fox TV dance show So You Think You Can Dance Season 10.
While living in NYC, Carlos performed with the Broadway cast of Spider- man Turn Off The Dark in their final Gypsy Of The Year performance. He also performed as the principal character in the off-Broadway show, iLuminate, Artists of Light with the company iLuminate (as seen on America's Got Talent).
Carlos currently resides in Orlando, FL where he is a performer at Universal Studios and Walt Disney World. He is also the CEO and founder of Dancelook LLC, an agency in which anyone can find and hire dance instructors or take dance classes directly from online videos.
Visit Carlos online at www.CarlosGarlandDance.com
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Class Descriptions
In class, dancers will work on endurance, stamina, balance, muscle strengthening, and flexibility with a cardio/mini floor barre/conditioning and stretch warm up. Following will be a Contemporary/Jazz combination that tests and builds the dancers abilities in movement aesthetics, quality of movement, personal artistry, musicality beyond basic counting, and comprehension of detailed choreography.
The goal of the class is to challenge and prepare students for current and developing trends in dance. Students will leaving inspiration that will last for dancers to work harder, develop more personal style/creativity, to have fun, and to overall increase their love of dance.