Ami Aguilar Riley

Ami

Aguilar Riley

Teacher

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
Edward Hopper

Specialty: Tap, Musical Theatre, HipHop.
Teaching Experience: 25+ years.
Personal Experience:
Performing in the SuperBowl XXXVI Halftime and then over 20 years later choreographing the Super Bowl LIV Pre-show with my sister..
Personal Goal:
To get through to today's dancers that at the end of the day we are all performers and entertainers. The minute you set foot onto any stage it is no longer about you, your technique or your training (that is what class is for). It is about the audience. Whether it's your parents or judges or a complete stranger, it is about them. How you make them FEEL, where you take them, about the story. It's about making them not be able to look at thier phone for 3 minutes because they are captive to what's unfolding. In today's competitive dance world I feel like we have lost sight of that and I work every day to bring that back.
Level of Recognition:
 I have won countless awards over the past 25 years at the National Level for Choreography, Costume Design and overall Innovation for my work.

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