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Mandy Montanez
V.P. Marketing / Europe

Mandy began dancing at the age of 11 and since has trained under scholarship at some of the best dance schools in the USA, to include; Broadway Dance Centre, Steps on Broadway, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and The Edge. Mandy gained a BA in dance from Point Park Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh in 2000.

Having travelled the world as a dancer for cruise-line Royal Caribbean, Mandy moved to London to further her professional career.

Since moving to London Mandy has made a number of TV appearances, these include: “Dancing in the Streets” (BBC1); A large ad-campaign for “Sanex” (UK, and worldwide); J&B’s huge viral ad-campaign; and most recently a £million campaign for “Orangina” to be aired UK Cinema and France.

Mandy has made numerous worldwide TV appearances include “The White House Christmas Tree Lighting” (NBC- USA); “ Higher League” (TV1- Russia). For the “Higher League” programme, Mandy taught a high profile dance lesson with Girl-Band Fabrica (The Russian version of Girls Aloud) and was also interviewed by the Russian media.

Mandy is a highly sought after teacher and in addition to a number of master classes, Mandy has lectured at Bird College, The BRIT School for Performing Arts, and The Urdang Academy. Mandy is regularly invited to Moscow, Russia where she teaches master classes in commercial street dance to Moscow’s rich and famous: This has also included the production of an instructional dance DVD for The Drive Dance Project in 2007.

Mandy’s goal is to raise the profile of dance in the UK whilst expanding what the UK dance scene has to offer, starting with the introduction of America’s most successful and exciting dance competitions, Starpower.

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