Our Instructors
Academy Directors & Professional Latin American Instructors Arkady Bakenov & Cheryl Yuen
Arkady Bakenov (Academy Director & Professional Latin American Instructor)
Arkady Bakenov is one of the world’s top professional Latin American ballroom dancers. He has worn many world championship titles and was most recently the Champion in the very prestigious Blackpool Dance Festival 2016 Professional RS Latin. He is the highest ranked coach based in Singapore training top competitive dancers both internationally and locally for competitions and shows.
Cheryl Yuen (Academy Director & Professional Latin American Instructor)
Cheryl Yuen is Singapore’s top professional Ballroom Latin American dancer and teacher and the nominated Singapore representative in the World Latin Championships. She currently represents Czech Republic with her partner and they are the top ranked Czech Republic Representative to the World Championships. She is finalist of the prestigious Blackpool Dance Festival China 2018 Professional RS Latin category. She has vast experience teaching social, competitive and performance or show dances at schools and clubs such as NUS Staff Club, NUS Social & Ballroom (NUSSNB) club, Singapore Management University (SMU Ardiente). She is currently the residential team coach at Yale-NUS College.
Irina Cherepanova (Professional Standard Instructor)
Irina Cherepanova is currently between Champion and First Runner Up in the World in all major dance championships with her partner Stanislav Zelianin. She trains all the top competitive standard dancers in Singapore and is a renowned coach worldwide.
Ian Gillard (Professional Standard & New Vogue Instructor)
Ian Gillard is one of the best Professional Standard and New Vogue dancer in Australia and New Zealand. He is 3 times Australian Representative to the World Professional Standard Championships; Runner Up IDSF World Professional New Vogue; Australian Professional Rising Star Champion; New Zealand Open Professional Standard and New Vogue Champions; Singapore International Amateur Champion; Malaysian Open Amateur Champion.
Jennifer Tin (Professional Latin American Dance Instructor)
Jennifer Tin
Ivan Kuninets (Professional Standard, Latin American & American Smooth Dance Instructor)
Ivan Kuninets
Kevin Baccanale (Professional Latin American and Standard Dance Instructor)
Kevin Baccanale has been dancing for 25 years and teaching for 15 years, dancing all 10 dances (Standard & Latin) specialising in Latin American. His major achievements include 5th for 10-Dance at the European Championship, 7th for 10-Dance at the World Championship WDSF, Top 7 for Amateur RS Latin at the International, Top 31 in Amateur Latin at the UK Championships, Top 30 in Amateur Latin at The Open Blackpool, and Top 16 in Amateur Latin at the WDO World Championships. He is also multiple times Italian Champion (FIDS) & Italian Championship Finalist.
Nicholas Hew (Latin American Dance Instructor)
Nicholas Hew is amongst Australia’s best Latin American dancers representing Australia in major championships world wide. He actively competes in international championship and is currently teaching aspiring competitors and also dancers who want to improve their craft. He has good experience in taking students for examinations and teacher-student shows and events.
Andrew Restan (Latin American Dance Instructor)
Andrew is one of Singapore’s leading Latin American dancer representing Singapore in numerous international championships world wide. He is a highly respected dancers and have vast experience teaching schools here in Singapore.
Eva Chen (Standard Dance Instructor)
Eva has made her mark in the world with her world class dancing. She is internationally known as she is amongst the top representing Singapore in numerous international championships and had done many shows worldwide. She always pushes for perfection and has spent much time studying the syllabus and figures in International Standard and is fully certified.
Trinity Goh (Latin American Dance Instructor)
Trinity Goh is one of Singapore’s top promising Latin American dancer, and was also formerly Singapore’s top Junior Latin American couple with her partner Lucas Neo. She was ranked Top 24 in the world in the prestigious Blackpool Junior Dance Festival. She currently specialises in teaching Juveniles, Juniors and Youths.
Regina Gowindah (Latin American Dance Instructor)
Regina is a passionate latin american dancer who is also trained in jazz and ballet. She has represented Singapore in many prestigious international championship and has been amongst the top in her category. Her classes are fun and dynamic, and have even introduced new genres like Latin Jazz.
