Our Team

(she/her) is Founder of Culture Flow Projects, Owner of PiYoDa Flow, and the creator of the Dance and Global Consciousness program. She is a dance educator with 20+ years of dance teaching experience who has performed professionally in the entertainment industry (e.g. Cirque du Soleil, Black Eyed Peas, Nike) and for dance theater companies (Illstyle & Peace Productions and Bellyqueen) since the mid-1990s. She initiated Dance and Global Consciousness in 2005 and has since brought this program to and collaborated with various L.A. teaching establishments and organizations. For instance, from 2018-2021, she was the Founding and Dance Educator at Geffen Academy at UCLA, where she impacted thousands of students through this program and her teaching. She also cultivates wellness in her community by teaching Yoga (Iyengar and YogaWorks) and Mat Pilates. 

(he/him) is a street dance and theatre artist whose work has been presented on stages like the Kennedy Center and Joe’s Pub at The Public. He often creates work for concert dance that stages hip-hop and street dance fused with physical theater to create a unique performance experience. He has been working for the past several years as a solo artist creating new work, performing his repertoire, and in stage plays for festivals and shows like the Arts On Site NYC, DANCE NOW New York Festival, TEDx Providence, Big Sky Summer Theatre Festival, and the Atlanta Spring for Spring Festival. Tsiambwom received his BA in Theatre from Georgia Southern University and his MFA in Theatre from the University of Montana. He’s taught at Colby College and is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at CSULB.

New York City native, he has lived in Los Angeles, California for nearly 20 years. Talented dancer, educator, philanthropist, Amrahu is active in the House dance community as an Open House founding member.  His connection to dance and world culture has led him to achievement in the Brazilian national dance of Samba no Pé where he has competed internationally and has gone 3 times undefeated as O Rei do Samba/King of Samba USA.  His free spirited performances are a mixture of Brazilian cultural movement with house dance and hip hop elements from his New York City roots. During the weekdays, he is the Director Of Operations at Educating Young Minds.

(she/her), having danced and performed from a young age, gained the majority of her professional training in Cuba and Brazil. Since 2017, she has been teaching in Louisiana and California at various prestigious dance studios and training institutions such as USC Marshall School of Business, Liz Lira Dance Academy, Fullerton University, PiYoDa Flow, and Viver Brasil Dance Company, to name a few. She is Artistic Director of OCANDENIYE DANCE COMPANY, a dance company that specializes in popular and traditional Cuban genres (e.g. Afro Cuban folklore, Cuban Salsa, Rumba) while also exploring Brazilian, Haitian, and Peruvian dances. As an energetic educator and performer, Laroye is passionate about sharing the rich culture of her Cuban background, making every session vibrant, exciting, and explosive! https://linktr.ee/laroyeana

(she/her) is a professional dancer, choreographer and teaching artist from Chicago who is based in Los Angeles. She has been a freelance performer with multiple companies and recently worked as a Rehearsal Director for the 2022 touring production of Netflix, Shondaland and Fever’s The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience. Ysaÿe has been a passionate dance educator for all ages and levels for over a decade. She has also choreographed plays for Teatro Luna (now Studio Luna), Greenway Court Theater, Depaul University and more. Ysaÿe also has her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher and Social-Emotional Learning Teacher certifications.

she/her is a certified mat pilates instructor, dance and multidisciplinary performance artist based in Los Angeles. A fervent storyteller with strength in versatility, Tulsi has a dance background in jazz, hip-hop, modern, ballet, West African, aerial silks and hoop, and musical theater. Tulsi is also a strong proponent of dance as a means of cross-cultural expression and communication, and has experience in Indian classical, Korean classical, hula, Afro-Cuban and other Latin dance forms. Tulsi recently performed in Disney’s “¡Viva Navidad!” show with Viver Brasil Dance Company. Tulsi holds a B.A. in Dance and Theatre Arts from Loyola Marymount University.

Devon Cunningham is an artist and
community healer. A passionate and enthusiastic student of continuous learning and personal growth through traditional therapy, intuitive studies, guidance and nature. Devon finds self-exploration a key ingredient to world transformation. With a variety of professional experiences in contracting, corporate America, pre-school education, and mothering, Devon now spends much of her time working in collectivity and individually with students, activists, and artists to provide opportunities for people to check-in, connect, and clarify their needs, dreams, and blocks. Though familiar with the power of music, specifically jazz, since a young girl, her spiritual journey with music began in 2018 when led to the mountains of Cuenca, Ecuador to study varied spiritual wellness forms. There, she studied with Shamans, learned indigenous practices of healing; connecting with the earth, and has been called to sound alchemy ever since.

(he/him) was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Inspired by his parents, Kosi began drumming and dancing at age six with Dembrebrah West African Drum and Dance Ensemble. In high school, he trained in Contemporary dance, Hip-Hop, Heels, Modern, Ballet, and Lyrical. Since then, he has performed at the Nokia Theater, Staple Center, Barnsdall Gallery Theater, Skirball, and in various music videos. Invigorated by his travels to Africa to study the various art forms, he enjoys sharing West African traditional songs, textiles, and storytelling in addition to dance technique.

(she/her) is a certified yoga instructor, dance artist and scholar. Magnolia is a Hmong American female dance artist and Ph.D. candidate in Critical Dance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Southeast Asian Studies at UC Riverside. She received her BFA in Dance from University of Minnesota with a Minor in Asian American Studies. Her professional dancing career was launched in Twin Cities, MN as an Ananya Dance Theatre company dance member (2013-2019), and choreographer presenting her dance work at the Walker Art Center, the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts, Carleton College, among others. Although trained in many dance forms and techniques, Magnolia primarily moves in Yorchha™ (ADT’s contemporary dance technique) and House dance, to which the latter she began as a “club head” teenager while living in the Detroit Metro area.

Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico Andrea began her dance journey at the age of 4 and has been teaching for the past 20 years. She first started with classical training like ballet and jazz but right away fell in love with Tap. Later in her teenage years got into Hip Hop which sparked her curiosity to travel to New York in 2007 which completely changed her life and dance vision. In 2009 she moved to NYC to attend the BDC ISVP program and later to Los Angeles where she currently resides. For the past 15 years Andrea has been actively training with different pioneers from the scene, mainly focusing in House dance, music and culture. When moving she uses her dance vocabulary as a tool of expression and communication with others, as well as personal way of cleansing and healing. Being the first Mexican to represent House dance world wide she has traveled battling, teaching and judging throughout North & South America, Europe and Asia. As a community member she organizes events, sessions, workshops and parties with the collective Open House in Los Angeles and her crew Kadetes del Toke in Mexico, she is the creator of Eye m Home, a jam that welcomes everyone under a roof of house music and dance. Andrea is a free spirit with a nomad heart always sharing her dance and knowledge, as well as learning and exchanging with different cultures of the world. In 2021 Andrea got into web3 and is part of the pioneering Dance NFT movement and is currently building with NounsDAOAmigos creating events and giving opportunities to other dancers to achieve their goals and dreams. She is an artivist, a natural medicine advocate and a student of ancestral healing ways. 

Nola Gibson is a Los Angeles–based modern dancer with a BFA in Dance Performance and BA in Political Science from UC Irvine. She has performed with Benita Bike’s DanceArt, completing three seasons and touring nationally, and is currently a company member with Lineage Dance while also freelancing with choreographers including Bernard Brown, Waeli Wang, and Celeste Lanuza. Nola also brings experience as an arts administrator, having worked as an Administrative Assistant for PiYoDa Flow and Culture Flow Projects, and is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher currently teaching Prenatal Yoga at Astro Gong Yoga in Los Angeles.

Onirê is from Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, and comes from a family deeply rooted in Afro-Brazilian traditions. From his great-grandparents to his father, each generation has embodied and preserved cultural expressions such as capoeira, samba, and candomblé. As a natural continuation of this heritage, he grew up immersed in these traditions—practicing capoeira from an early age and beginning his journey in Afro-Brazilian music and percussion at the age of five. By fourteen, he was traveling across Brazil to teach the art form, and at nineteen, he embarked on his first international trip to Europe. Today, he lives his culture as a form of faith, passion, and profession—dedicated to planting and nurturing the seeds of Afro-Brazilian heritage around the world.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Washington DC; Daunte “KINGTAE” Fyall is a passionate dance instructor, performing artist, and motivational speaker. Daunte travels around the world enriching our communities with the healing energy and power of Traditional West African Dance.Daunté is dedicated to creating nurturing spaces to develop the potential of inner city youth, collaborative workshops with community organizations, maintaining private, corporate and individual group lessons. Daunte is passionate about dance, traveling, leading retreats and teaching specialized workshops.