Y Dance-A-Thon 2022

Fiery red head and TOTAL music nerd, Barron S produces her own music and regularly adds her own beats with live vocals to her DJ sets. Her passion for music landed her DJing on Rihanna’s Anti World Tour, opening for Electro-Funk duo Chromeo, and playing to crowds of 500,000+ for the past four years in Vancouver’s Pride Parade.  As the In-Arena DJ and Music Director for the Vancouver Canucks, Barron S became the first female DJ in the NHL. 

Yeshvi Mehta has a passion for dance that can be seen, felt and heard in her one-hour BollyLatin Fitness class. The high-energy, dance-aerobics class – which is similar to Zumba – combines her love for Latin and Bollywood music with easy-to-follow choreography. A Vancouver resident for the past 18 years, Yeshvi was born and partly raised in Mumbai, India.

Dancing since he was 15. Kevin has been part of numerous dance teams and traveled around the world to dance. During his time in South Korea, he grew to love the performance and style of K-pop choreography/dance. He is very excited to be teaching you all!

K-Pop (or Korean Popular Music) is an increasingly popular genre of catchy music. K-pop includes a variety of styles and features choreography that is energetic and fun! 

DJ Agile is one of the country’s most sought after DJs with over 20K+ monthly listeners on Spotify. With his eclectic mix of Hip-Hop, Soul, Afrobeats, House, Rock, Pop and Nu Soul, the multi-award-winning artist has become a staple in the Toronto music scene.  As a producer, the 5x Juno Award & MuchMusic Video Award nominee, has worked alongside power players such as NaS, Method Man, Melanie Fiona, Dwele, Kardinal Offishall, and more. He recently scored the music for seasons 3 and 4 of Netflix’s HipHop Evolution series.

Natasha Gorrie is Co-Founder of the powerhouse female crew ‘Diamonds In The Rough’. She began training at her mother’s dance studio at the age of eight. As a professional dancer, her credits include She’s The Man, Another Cinderella Story, Hellcats, The Magicians and So You Think You Can Dance Canada, music videos for DJ Tiesto and Lady Sovereign, and commercials for Campbell’s Soup, Reebok and Nestle Water. As a freestyler, she has battled around the world and has won numerous titles.

Led by Rohan D’Silva, Bollywood is a high-energy dance form originating from India. It is a fusion of Indian classical and folk styles with Jazz, Hip Hop, Arabic and Western dance influences. Rohan has choreographed Bollywood films such as Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Bunty Aur Bubli, Dhoom 2 and TV shows including YES - the spirit of triumph, One, I Believe, and Filmfare Awards. Rohan has taught many Bollywood bigwigs including Hrithik Roshan, Shahrukh Khan, and many others.

A highlight of Vancouver’s music scene, DJ Flipout is best known from Virgin Radio, a gig where he remixes the hits live in studio for The 5 O’clock Traffic Jam. The lifelong DJ is an internationally renowned human music library, hip-hop student and historian whose eclectic and cosmopolitan style has won him many local and national MC and DJ competitions.

Alesya Bogaevskaya, Ph.D., is an ACE-certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor, Can-Fit-Pro member and a Registered Yoga Teacher. She started her fitness career in Russia as an aerobics instructor and ballroom dance teacher while working in academia. Is there anything she can’t do?! Her academic research focuses on public policy on population aging and active aging which helps her to develop a unique scientific approach to personal training and group exercise.  

Johanna loves to help people move with more joy, confidence, play and purpose. A YWCA superfan, Johanna has been volunteering at the Health + Fitness Centre for over a decade and has been teaching dance-exercise for over 25 years.  A previous YWCA Women of Distinction Award nominee in Health & Fitness, Johanna was also named one of Canfitpro’s Top three National Fitness Instructor Specialists of the Year in 2016.

Amanda is a Yoga Alliance certified and registered instructor who has been teaching yoga since 2014 and practicing for 20 years. Amanda's classes are based on Hatha yoga and emphasize slow movement, core, breathwork and alignment. She welcomes all levels to her class.