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Lioudmila & Serguei Blinov	Sevrin Szapiaszan
Established the studio and manage it. Lioudmila and Serguei are a professional husband and wife dance team. Married for 30 years, they have danced together for 20 years. In Russia, they were finalists in numerous competitions and also trained other competitive dance couples. Since arriving in the United States, both have taught dance at several studios in Northern Virginia, including Arthur Murray, Dance World USA and Dance Factory. They compete regularly in competitions around the United states.Serguei received several certifications as a professional instructor since his arrival in the US seven years ago.	As the instructor who taught Kirstie Alley in preparation for DWTS, Sevrin comes to us with extensive knowledge in both the International and American categories. He has been dancing and competing in the International Standard and Latin divisions since the age of ten and once he moved to the U.S., also taught and competed in both American Smooth and Rhythm. Not only does his dancing get the attention of both students and judges, he has a personality that will keep you laughing while you learn. His ability to teach the hardest patterns and techniques in a simple way makes his students always coming back for more. He teaches from beginner levels to advanced and specializes in competitive dancing for amateur women, making them look sexy and confident on the dance floor. In addition to his dancing and teaching background, Sevrin has the rare quality of choreographing show routines for his students that let his students shine!


Landra Seim	Pearl Carrington
Landra started to dance the same day she learned to walk. She has instructed dance for the last 11 years and competed professionally for the last 7 years in American rhythm and smooth categories. She specializes in teaching men to lead with confidence and women to dance with grace and elegance with techniques tha are easy to learn. Bachata and Salsa are two of her favorite dances but teaches all the ballroom smooth and Latin dances with with a good sense of humor. In November2011, Landr joined our team and took over as office manager and New Student Director.	Certified Professional Instructor by World Professional Dance Teachers Association. Certified Core Rhythms instructor by Dance Sport Fitness. Champion of 2008 Dancing with the Albany Stars. Competitor and performer of Latin and smooth dance. Dance instructor and choreographer at arthur Murray Dance Studio, New York. Choreographer and instructor for over 10 different Latin Rhythm dances, five smooth dances, wedding first dance & father/daughter dance. Studied under Julia Powers, 12 time US champion in Rhythm Dance and Emily Booth, ACE PPSH Certified Fitness Professional


Bryan Duffy	Inga Burgstahler
Bryan specializes in teaching students new to dance. In 1984 he made his debut as a ballroom dance instructorworking for his father's dance studio located in Alexandria, VA. For 26 years Bryan has been teaching as an independent dance instructor. There is hardly a dance Bryan can not teach, perform or choreograph including salsa, merengue, lindy hop, west coast swing, line dancing and the varieties of of country and western dances. Focused on promoting social dancing, Bryan is also no stranger to competition or theater.	Inga Burgstahler began dancing at 4. She was a ballet performer for 13 years. She's been a competitive dancer in the ballroom world for 10 years at the gold level. She currently teaches all levels of dance and all forms including social, competitive, and wedding couples.


Sinisa Vasic
Sinisa was born in Vienna, Austria. He started dancing competitively at age 10. He is a high ranked finalist in many international competitions across Europe and the World. He was the Austrian and Viennese Junior and Youth Champion and the Serbiam Professional Latin Champion: The quarterfinalist at the International in London. He also holds the Imperial Championships and Masters and a semi-finalist of the European Cup. He is a finalist in France, Slovenia, Chicago, Las Vegas and other World Competitions. Sinisa is highly renowned in the International dance World for his qualities as a professional dance instructor and Choreographer. He has worked with the worlds top coaches: Espen Salberg, Donnie Burns, Sammy Stopford, Barbara McCall, Richard Porter, Tone Nyhagen, Jerry Abrate, as well as many others