Dance Off!

Stephen Tannos

It is Stephen’s versatile and unique style that caught the eye of the judges in “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?” 2009 and his formidable dance skills enabled him to be part of the Top 20 of Australia’s favourite dancers.

Stephen is certainly no stranger to show business having danced commercially for artists Sam Sparro, The Presets and appearing on various stage and TV performances such as sell out shows of “The Next Step”, a fusion of hip hop and tap performances at the Metro theatre.

Stephen recently returned from an 18 month tour of Asia with the musical “CATS”.  At age 13 he had his musical debut in Cameron Mackintosh’s “Oliver!”

He has received training in all types of dance, most recently at Brent Street Studios as well as gymnastics training.

Aside from performing, Stephen also loves to teach his students and is currently teaching at various dance schools around Sydney, including Sydney Dance Company and Brent Street.

Bianca Gallifuoco

Bianca has been dancing for 20 years, trained in jazz, tap, funk, hip hop, classical, contemporary, acting and singing at Dynamite Dance Studios, Brent Street School of Performing Arts, ATYP, international workshops, Edge (LA), Debbie Reynolds (LA), Millennium (LA) and Broadway Dance Centre (NYC). 



Bianca has worked with some amazing international artists: Vanilla Ice, Macy Gray and Kaz James, and Duffy. She has also worked with Australian artists: TV Rock, Human Nature, The Young Divas, Figkidd, Marcia Hines, Jade McRae, Tina Arena, David Campbell, Paulini. Other performance credits: McDonalds (choreographer), Coke, Ausdance Awards, Channel V, KFC (TVC), SYTYCD (Macy Gray and Kaz James), and was delighted to perform at a young age at the Fox Studios opening and the Stadium Australia opening.

 

From international artists to school productions, Bianca is pleased to have choreographed at the Sydney debut of the LA Choreographers’ Carnival, for the NSW Schools Spectacular, The Sound of Music (Kincoppal HS), Sweet Charity (Kambala HS), for Ajaka (support act for Destiny’s Child), for DUFFY’s performances on ‘The Sunday Night Show’ and SYTYCD (asst. chore.), and for VANILLA ICE’s media promotions on Australian news and his performance at the V Festival.

 

Bianca has also completed two university degrees at UTS, a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Public Communication) and a Bachelor of Law.  With her degrees, Bianca plans to support and contribute to the arts. Bianca has been teaching since the age of 16 at dance studios, high schools and ran her own studio, Boomski Beats for 3 years in which she was founder, choreographer and artistic director.

Greame Isaako

It is no wonder that Graeme Isaako made it to the Top 20 of “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?” in 2008. “Pure. Honest. A dancer”, those were the words of Bonnie Lythgoe, one of the judges of the hit TV show at Graeme’s first audition.

Since then Graeme has performed and worked with award winning artists such as Duffy, Sam Sparro,  Jessica Mauboy and Amy Pearson and is a highly sought out commercial dancer in the industry.

This versatile performer also demonstrates great singing ability, also making it in the Top 100 of Australian Idol, the year Kate Dearaugo won.
Graeme landed a role in the critically acclaimed Olivier at the Lyric Theatre in 2002, a show which ran for six months and he’s travelled and performed abroad at Disneyland in LA and Florida, and in New York. Then in 2006, he completed the Urban Dance Centre’s fulltime course.

Graeme is thrilled to be part of DANCE OFF! as one of the talented and professional instructors for this amazing regional project.

Hilton Denis

Hilton Denis, represented by Mark Byrne Management, has been trained in dance, singing, acting, acrobatics and Breaking at Australia's highly respected and accredited performing arts institute Brent Street Studios, training for more than 10 years.



Hilton is already highly experienced in the commercial dance world, continually rising in the ranks as a professional dancer and choreographer. Previously working with the likes of Fergie (Black Eyed
Peas), Paulini, Young Divas, and S2S. Highlight performances including The Helpmann Awards, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, MTV, Opera Australia and Australian Idol. With most recently being a top twenty finalist in Australia's 'So You Think You Can Dance". Hilton's specialties (for teaching) include acrobatics, hip-hop, contemporary, lyrical, technique and tap.



Choreographic projects include his co-creation of the performance group "RAPT", who performed as finalists on the TV series Australia's Got Talent. All these successes culminating into Hilton's Production Company (Co-director): Milk and Cookies, specialising in Dance workshops and performance art entertainment.



TV/Film credits include Home and Away, McDonalds, Farscape, All Saints, Moulin Rouge and Peter Jackson's King Kong.