MEET OUR TEAM

Randy Dias is a Professional American Smooth Champion and a three-time Eastern US Champion. He toured the United States with “Champions of the Dance”, a theater-ballroom production that also featured “Dancing with the Stars” professionals Jonathan Roberts and Anna Trebunskaya, and “So You Think You Can Dance” competitor Iveta Lukosiute.

Randy has been dancing for over 35 years. He began his dance career in the Rhode Island State Ballet, where he performed as a principal dancer until 1998.

Randy’s competitive ballroom career flourished in his partnership with Viktorija Barasihina. They won 30 out of 32 rising star events including the Emerald Ball, Heritage Classic, Florida Superstars, Southern States, Texas Challenge and many others. They became 2006 United States Rising Star American Ballroom Silver Medalists and in 2010, Randy and Viktorija became the American Ballroom winners of the Latin America World Dance Sport Championships held in Cancun, Mexico.

Studding and teaching ballroom for over 25 years now, Tonja has gained much recognition and many awards for her success as a teacher and manager. Her abilities led her to record breaking results as an instructor with the Fred Astaire organization and as a manager of Dance with Me SoHo leading her to have been appointed National Training Director of the Dance with Me organization. She continues to apply those principles while leading many instructors and studio teams to incremental successes with her teaching systems.

As a professional competitor she achieved a finalist status in the American Smooth division in many NDCA circuit events in 2007-8 and again in 2013. Ohio Star Ball finalist in 2007, Fred Astaire National Smooth Champion in 2007-8, Rising Star Smooth finalist at Emerald Ball, USDSC and Ohio Star Ball in 2013, Rising Star Smooth Champion at Yankee Classic and Empire Dance Sport in 2013. Tonja performed in the dance trilogy “Sway” starring Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy and Tony Dovolani. She had the honor of choreographing a masquerade ball scene with Blake Lively for the Gossip Girl pilot in 2011 as well as a dueling soft shoe performance for Tony Bennett with his daughter Antonia.