Kravis Center

INTERNATIONAL DANCE SENSATIONS

 

ASHLEIGH DI LELLO & RYAN DI LELLO

Join

ANYA GARNIS & PASHA KOVALEV

KAREN HAUER & ARTEM CHIGVINTSEV

 As Guest Stars in

BURN THE FLOOR

at the

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

May 4 through 9, 2010

 

 

The producers of BURN THE FLOOR have announced that Ashleigh Di Lello & Ryan Di Lello will join Anya Garnis & Pasha Kovalev, Karen Hauer and Artem Chigvintsev in the Kravis Center’s engagement of the Broadway smash hit.

 

All six dancers are finalist from TV’s So You Think You Can Dance in the USA.

 

Years before Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance turned ballroom dancing into must-see TV, one sizzling show was setting stages ablaze around the globe.  BURN THE FLOOR, the electrifying Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that has thrilled audiences in more than 30 countries, brings the fire and passion of their live performance to the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts stage in West Palm Beach, for one week only, May 4 through the 9.    Tickets are on sale now at the Kravis Center box office, by calling 561-832-7469, www.kravis.org/burnthefloor or Ticketmaster.

 

Anya Garnis & Pasha Kovalev and Karen Hauer & Artem Chigvintsev recently appeared in the recent record-breaking engagement of BURN THE FLOOR at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.  Ashleigh Di Lello and Ryan Di Lello will be making their BURN THE FLOOR debut in the new Broadway touring production.

 

ANYA GARNIS

Audiences will recognize Garnis from her appearance on the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.” She has also been a guest dancer on “Dancing with the Stars,” “Superstars of Dance” and the Academy Awards. Garnis was born in Latvia, and has been a ballroom superstar for the last ten years.

 

PASHA KOVALEV  

After a successful career in Ballroom competition, Kovalev moved to the small screen, where he has been featured on “So You Think You Can Dance,” “Dancing with the Stars” and “Superstars of Dance.”   Kovalev was born in Siberia, Russia, where he started dancing when he was eight.

 

KAREN HAUER

In the recent, 2009 season of “So You Think You Can Dance,” Hauer was a top-twelve finalist and was named the 2008 World Mambo Champion.  She was born in Venezuela, but moved to New York City and began to dance when she was eight.  She attended LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts.   

 

ARTEM CHIGVINTSEV

He was the show-stopping finalist on FOX’s first season of “So You Think You Can Dance.”  Additional TV credits include WE’s “Dirty Dancing,” “I Want to Be a Soap Star,” “Eli Stone,” “Passions” and “The OC.” Chigvintsev is a champion in international style Latin dance, although he is originally from Russia.  

 

ASHLEIGH DI LELLO

Di Lello has performed and taught in 19 different countries and has most recently made it all the way to the 2009 finalé on TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance” with her husband, Ryan.  She was a DanceSport Junior Latin Champion and a United States Junior American Latin Finalist by the age of 12. A year later she became very sick with a life-threatening illness that she would battle for many years. When Di Lello did return to ballroom dancing  she became a three-time DanceSport Amateur Latin Champion and a United States Amateur Latin Finalist.

 

RYAN DI LELLO

For the past several years, Di Lello has enjoyed teaching and dancing in professional shows throughout the world with his wife and dance partner, Ashleigh. They auditioned together for the 2009 sixth season of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” where they were not only the first married couple to be selected for the show, but to go all the way to the finalé.  Di Lello began dancing at age four, began ballroom dancing at the age of nine, and was a two-time amateur Latin runner-up and the Youth American Champion.

 

For a sneak peek, visit

www.burnthefloor.com.

 

These six featured dancers will join DAMON SUGDEN, REBECCA SUGDEN, ROBIN WINDSOR, PATRICK HELM, SHARNA  BURGESS, JEREMY GARNER, SARAH HIVES, SASHA FARBER, MELANIE HOOPER, GARY WRIGHT, ASHLEIGH HUNTER, SANTO COSTA, EMMA SLATER, MIRKO SCIOLAN, NURIA SANTALUCIA  and MALE VOCALIST – MIG AYESA AND FEMALE VOCALIST – REBECCA TAPIA  when BURN THE FLOOR heats up the stage at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, May 4 - 9.



Tickets start at $20. Performances run May 4 at 8 pm, May 5 at 2 pm and 8 pm, May 6 and May 7 at 8 pm, May 8 at 2 pm and 8 pm, and May 9 at 2 pm. There is a free pre-performance discussion by Steven Caras at 6:45 pm on May 4.

 

BURN THE FLOOR is produced for Dance Partner Inc, by Harley Medcalf, Nic Notley, Peta Roby and Jason Gilkison.



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