Mary-Grace Brown, a native of the Philippines, has been dancing professional Salsa for two and a half years. She has received no such formal training in Salsa, or in any other dance, prior to this.

is a very inspired dancer, who achieved a great deal of recognition in
Australian and the World dance arena, having achieved the highest accolades in Australia for 2007.

Her dancing, you could say, is true street style, as she has learnt to dance purely in the social dance scene.

Before discovering the Latin dances however, she was dancing street Hip Hop and RNB style, competing in dance circuits in Queensland.

She came second in the annual Bacardi Hip Hop Dance Competition in 2003, third in 2004, 4th in the Mercury Hip Hop Dance Slam Championships 2004, and her student team came second in the Sports Bar Hip Hop Dance Offs 2005.

She is an up and coming dancer in the Salsa world. In Queensland, she has left quite a mark, placing 1st in the South Bank Salsa Standoff 2003, and 1st in the annual Queensland Street Salsa Competition in the same year.

She has performed in the Sydney Salsa Congress both in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, she went on a world-wind tour of the US, the UK and Europe to learn the latest styles of Latin dance.

Moving to Sydney in January of this year, and joining the LDA team, she is now ready to take on Sydney, Australia, and indeed, the rest of the world.

She will make her international debut in Los Angeles with the LDA pro-team and to compete in the World Salsa Competition.

Niel Singh, has a longe pass and passion for martial arts and Hip-Hop hel found a profound attraction for Salsa dance.

With only three years with LDA and a five months Partnership with Marie-Grace Neil acheived his the first major event win at the Asia Open Salsa Championships in February 08, in Hong Kong.

Already he is builiding an extensive repertoire domestically including Cairns, Club Med, Mackay, Perth and Sydney and is set to spread his wings internationally. his style is energy plus and a lot of fun!

Carolyn Frost , Carolyn was born in Melbourne, and was raised in Brisbane, Australia. Carolyn was introduced to latin dance in 2000 and started to perform and teach full-time for Rio Rhythmics Latin Dance Academy (Brisbane) in 2001.

In 2002 Carolyn made her first visit to Brazil and was greatly inspired by the high standard and passion that the Brazilian´s had for dance. Carolyn returned to Rio de Janeiro to continue her study of Brazilian dance in 2004. On this trip, she met Daniel (her teacher) and they were instantly inseparable.

They were married May 2005 and Carolyn moved to Brazil to be with daniel.

Carolyn was offered a full-time scholarship with Jaime Aroxa’s Dance School to learn dance and also to learn how to teach Jaime Aroxa´s dance methodology. Her studies included the following dance styles: Tango, Samba de Gafieira, Samba no Pé, Zouk (Lambada), Salsa, Forró, Bolero, Soltinho, Ballet and stretching/strengthening classes.

Carolyn was promoted by Jaime Aroxa and began teaching 8 classes per week with Daniel at the school. Carolyn also assisted other teachers (including Jaime Aroxa) in their daily group classes. Carolyn has performed with Jaime Aroxa, Daniel and some of Jaime Aroxa´s other teachers in private and corporate functions around Brazil since 2005.

Daniel Pinto, Daniel was born in Bahia, and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He graduated from Universidade do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (UERJ) in 2002 in Physical Education and Sports.

Daniel began learning latin dance in Jaime Aroxa's dance school in 1998. Jaime Aroxa's dance school has the best teaching methodology and is the biggest dance school in Brazil. Daniel was asked to start teaching there in 2000.

Before moving to Brisbane, Australia in December 2007, Daniel was teaching an average of 22 group dance classes per week in Jaime Aroxa's dance school in Rio de Janeiro. The dance styles he was teaching included Tango, Samba de Gafieira, Samba no Pe, Bolero,

Mio Takagi, was born in Hiroshima, Japan. Born with a love of music, Mio started learning and performing piano and singing at only 4 years of age.

Mio moved to Australia in 1999 to study English & Architecture at University. She also discovered a new passion in the forms of Jazz, Ballet, Flamenco, Salsa, Lambada, Cha Cha Cha and Salsa. A naturally talented and musical dancer, Mio decided to postpone University in order to pursue a career in dance.

With a unique salsa style, hevaily influenced by her Flamenco training, Mio soon found herself with performance opportunities, including the 2002 "Goodwill Games Opening Gala", the "Brisbane Dance Festival" and the "West End Festival". With a unique salsa style, hevaily influenced by her Flamenco training, Mio soon found herself with performance

opportunities, including the 2002 "Goodwill Games Opening Gala", the"Brisbane Dance Festival" and the "West End Festival".

In October 2002 Mio partnered with Lenny Baeza in order to choreograph and perform a Salsa routine for the opening of Toucans Nighclub in Milton. This temporary partnership soon became permanent as Lenny & Mio discovered they had a unique connection and performance ability. Since then, Lenny & Mio have developed a spectcaular performance style in 'Acrobatic Salsa'. They remain the only professional dancers in Australia who specialise in this field.

In 2006 and 2007 Lenny & Mio were invited to instruct and perform at the Sydney Salsa Congress. They performed both individually and as members of a powerful Vida Latina Troupe choreography, as well as running an Acrobatic workshop.

In her spare time, Mio explores her other passion - fashion! A highly talented designer, Mio creates all of the Vida Latina performance costimes, as well as custom-designing costumes for the public and other dancing professionals.