Crazy Smooth

Dancing since 1997, Crazy Smooth is one of Canada’s top street dancers, performers, choreographers, instructors, judges, and community leaders. He is the founder and artistic director of Bboyizm, an award-winning street-dance company that has been instrumental in the preservation and proliferation of street dance in Canada and internationally.

Crazy Smooth was named the 2020 Clifford E Lee award recipient by the Banff Centre for the Arts for In My Body, at that time a work-in-progress. He continued creation on the piece as the 2019-2021 Long Term Artist in Residence at the Centre de Création O Vertigo in Montreal. The project received a CanDance Creation Fund grant and significant investment from the NAC National Creation Fund.

In 2004, Smooth founded Bboyizm and the company has successfully brought authentic street dance into the professional theatre setting. Three of his full-length creations— The Evolution of B-boying, IZM, and Music Creates Opportunity—have toured throughout Canada. The company has been nominated for a Dora award (2012) and won both the Atlantic Presenters Association Touring Performers of the Year Award (2013) and the Ontario Presenters Network Emerging Touring Artist of the Year (2012). Crazy Smooth has performed, taught, and judged competitions in cities and events throughout North America and Europe. He continually strives to be a positive example for the community and an ambassador of the street dance culture at large.

Natasha Gorrie

Natasha is a leader and a pioneer in the Vancouver street dance community, co-founding the all female hip-hop crew Diamonds in the Rough and creating the hip-hop training group Higher Ground. She is passionate in hosting and facilitating events, classes and workshops.

Tash

Natasha “Tash” Jean-Bart was born in 1971 in Montreal, and has been dancing professionally for 34 years. A member of the renowned Montreal Canadian breaking crew Flow Rock since 1998, her love and dedication to learning the street dance styles led her to search and learn from the creators and pioneers of the street dance culture internationally.

In 2005, Tash was nominated Head Judge of Hip Hop International (HHI) street dance competition, a position she held for six years. That same year she also landed the lead role of « Lady Madonna » in the acclaimed production of The Beatles “LOVE” by Cirque Du Soleil at the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas. In 2006, she was invited by the late Greg « Campbellock Jr » Pope and Frank « Sundance » Sams to contribute to the growth of the Elite Locking Camp. The camp’s organization was passed down to her in 2014 as she re-branded it « Las Vegas Locking Camp.»

In 2011, she co-founded the Wättssoul company with her husband and helped produce and sponsor multiple events over the past seven years. Tash is a connector and has created hundreds of opportunities for artists and companies alike. She now travels internationally to pass on the knowledge she has accumulated throughout the years to a new generation of dancers. Tash recently completed a three-month tour with the biggest European Street Dance competition as the Juste Debout 2018 Locking Judge. She is still studying and training with the pioneers and forever will be a student of this culture.

Mark Siller

Mark has been involved in dance and creative movement for over 22 years. After being inspired by old Kung Fu flicks and seeing Freestyle Session he started breaking in high school.

Mark is a member of Filthee Feet Crew, he has competed internationally and stays active while helping build the local community. He’s thrown events, performed across BC schools, taught and created his own programming and is currently a board member for Breaking BC. Mark has also worked in the contemporary world as a founding member of Ouro Collective.