Broadway style dance will always have room in my heart and with the success of Hamilton, it is now getting a Hip Hop makeover. I was very excited to take a Broadway style dance class and what better day to take it than the day after the Tony Awards. I got even more excited when…
Did you know that Dancehall Jam is a unique dance style that you’ll only get from Hip Shake Fitness? If you are like me, I had no idea what Dancehall Jam is about. Dancehall is a genre of popular Jamaican music that was less political than Reggae. And Zen, our lovely instructor, incorporates her core…
Meet Shaun Arora, one of our amazing backers from Kickstarter, a dad and now an official dancer for Hip Shake Fitness! He is the GM at Make in LA where they are creating the Los Angeles epicenter of entrepreneurship focused 100% on hardware technologies. He helps startups thrive providing them with top notch programming and…
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We had a big weekend of workout video shoots at the awesome Beat Box Studios in Culver City and we started with Bollywood Abs with Ashley. It was a cloudy Saturday morning, but we were ready to make it a hot one! We had our schedule for the day set, our outfits organized and our…
At home fitness is convenient, private & a lot of fun. This list is from personal experience and may or may not relate to you. I live in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles with my boyfriend and my dog and they can either help or hinder my attitude towards getting the best workout…
One of the awesome perks that you can get when you pledge on our Kickstarter is a Team Dance. This means that we’ll bring Hip Shake Fitness to you and your team in the greater Los Angeles area! This is a great chance to reconnect and build interpersonal-relationships with your coworkers or a group that…
I’m always trying different dance classes to see what works for me and Matt’s LA Latin: Fun & Fitness class definitely SLAYS. Lucky for us, we get to work with him here at Hip Shake Fitness and we get to show the world his fancy feet and charming personality.
I’ve been in the digital analytics space for 10+ years but kickstarting a business is new to me. When I decided to launch Hip Shake Fitness on kickstarter, I noticed that most posts are about how this installation is executed. Â What I want to talk about today is actual reports that you can create and…
It was an early Wednesday morning at The Beat Box Studio in Culver City where we got ready to shoot some dance workout footage. We had a little hiccup with our last minute arrangements for dancers, but luckily we had the amazing Mimi & Grace to help us out. Of course, we also had technical…
It’s been 15 days since we started this roller coaster ride we now call Hip Shake Fitness Kickstarter campaign. Â We’ve raised 60% of the funding goal and we have 15 more days to go. Â These 15 days have been the most stressful, crazy and fast-paced days of my life.
It was a Friday, March 11 at 6pm when we scheduled to shoot the dance workout scenes shoot for Kickstarter. We shot the scenes at Beat Box Studio in Culver City, LA. We planned to shoot two videos, ‘Lips are movin’ & ‘Old school hip hop’ within 4 hours. Usually, we don’t get rainy days in LA but, of course,…
Image courtesy of Cherie B Tay photography Meet Matt Mancuso Born and raised in New Jersey, Matt started dancing at the age of 14. He is a dancer, actor, choreographer & you can find him on YouTube assisting his coach, Anna Trebunskaya, in her dance tutorials. Did we mention his eyes just make you feel like melting?
I’ve been listening to Baby Metal recently and it got me wondering if there were any J-Pop/K-Pop dance classes that I can take around Los Angeles. Once I found one, I had to take it. Here’s my review of a K-Pop dance workout at Boogiezone Utopia in Torrance!
Meet Carla Digiorgio She started dancing at the age of 2 ½ and her mom, wanting her to be graceful & athletic, enrolled her in dance classes 3 days a week. As a young girl she studied ballet on pointe, jazz, tap and continued them all the way through college, where she also studied modern dance. What is your…