BEnjamin & ashley Vasquez

Dance & Singing demo class

Date & Time: 4-4:45pm, Sept 22, 2024

Address: 1313b Miller Rd, Greenville SC 29607

Ben于2010-2019年在成都生活了9年，曾在川大和西南民族大学学习中文。他热衷于教学，特别是教授舞蹈，专长于街舞和国际hip pop 舞蹈研究。在过去的20年中，他曾教授过舞蹈，也参加过舞蹈比赛，更做过裁判。他擅长教授儿童和培训舞蹈老师，曾因此去过13个国家，65个中国城市。Ben有一颗热爱和尊重中国文化的诚心。返回美国后他愿意继续服务于中国社区做文化交流，与有中国文化背景的家庭建立美好的连接。


Ashley曾经走过18个国家，她的舞台表演极有魅力，现场观众曾高达2万人。她自己编舞，可以用7种语言演唱，在非洲和欧洲为年轻人代言。Ashley成长于一个音乐世家，她的祖父能够弹奏多种乐器，并有美妙的歌喉。她的父母鼓励有创意的写作、唱歌、作曲、表演诗，也鼓励学习创作电影短片。在她幼时，她的祖父走遍亚洲，建立孤儿院和穷人庇护所。从那时起，Ashley懂得给予和服务他人对她的人生有多重要。在过去的15年中，她教授舞蹈和唱歌，对象包括美国儿童，非洲孤儿，斯堪的纳维亚的难民，等。她曾指导创作艺术公司，为需要帮助的孩童和年轻人利用艺术和音乐作为治疗方式来改变他们的行为。她教年轻人艺术和唱歌，使几乎要被取消的课程获得了新生。她也作为护士的助手为老人服务了近10年，以唱歌和音乐作为治疗方式，帮助患有失智症的老人找回短时记忆。她的梦想是建立自己的创造艺术公司，通过这个平台收集年轻人的故事，并教授不同形式的创作。

About Ben & Ashley:

Ben is an American but he has a deep respect and connection to Chinese culture. He lived in Sichuan Chengdu China for 9 years (2010-2019). He studied at 四川大学 and 西南民族大学 learning Mandarin Chinese. His passion is teaching and specifically teaching dance. His profession is 街舞老师 and hip hop international studies. Ben has taught, competed, and judged  international dance events and in studios for the last 20 years. His specialty is teaching kids and also training dance teachers. He’s traveled to 13 countries for this career and over 65 cities in China. Ben's heart is to serve Chinese people and build communities that can have a cultural exchange. 

Ashley has been to over 18 countries and has performed on stage with over 20,000 people in attendance. She has choreographed dance performances, sang in 7 different languages, and has been an advocate for young people throughout Africa and Europe. Growing up in a musical family, her grandfather played multiple instruments and sang constantly. Her parents would encourage creative writing, singing, composing, spoken word poetry, art, playing instruments, and learning how to create short films. When she was a child, her grandfather traveled throughout Asia, building orphanages and shelters for those less fortunate. Since then, she knew giving back and serving others was important to her. For 15 years, Ashley has taught dance and singing to youth in the U.S., to orphans in Africa and to refugees in Scandinavia. She has also been a Creative Arts Director and Case Manager for at-risk youth in an effort to use art and music as a therapeutic tool for behavioral change. She has taught art classes and singing lessons to young students and helped revitalize a creative arts program that was almost canceled. Ashley has also been serving the elderly for nearly 10 years as a nursing assistant, singing and using music as a therapy to give moments of clarity back to those with dementia and Alzheimers. Her dream is to eventually run her own Creative Arts Company as a place to hear stories from our youth and teach different forms of creativity. 

Ashley & selected Youtube videos