Dzul International Dance Festival

Ricardo was a three year member of The Jamaica Junior Theatre Company And also The Company Dance Theatre in 2012, under the direction of Tony Wilson.

Noriko Naraoka was bone in Tokyo, Japan. She started ballet when she was 6 years of age with Ms. Tatsue Sata and Mr. Shouwa Kouchi in japan. When Noriko was 15, she won 2nd prize in Saitama-ken Buyo Competition, also she won the IBM prize in the Asia Ballet Competition.

Graduated cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College on scholarship earning a B.F.A. in dance. Katie joined Dzul Dance this season and has also been a member of Edgar Cortes Dance Theater in New York since 2015.

DANIELLE MARIE FUSCO (Dancer, Choreographer, Teaching Artist, Aerialist) Credits: Off-Broadway Choreography: “The Anthem”,“The Vanity”(Theatre Row), “Tink!” (NY Musical Festival), National Arts Club, NY Innovative Theatre Awards. 

Originally from New Mexico where he began his dance training as a teenager at the suggestion of friends with Michele and Kevin Self, Federico went on to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and The Rock School summer programs among others.

Andrea attended UNC Charlotte where she earned her B.A. in Dance as well as a Professional Training Certification from North Carolina Dance Theatre (now Charlotte Ballet).

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, began dancing and tumbling at age three and continued on to train extensively in ballet, modern, and jazz techniques throughout adolescence as a competition dancer and ballerina.