ZES™, ZIN™, ZJ™, ZUMBA® CONVENTION/CONFERENCE PRESENTERS:
Richard Gormley is a Canadian Zumba® Fitness instructor with a passion for promoting a healthy, active lifestyle. Richard's enthusiasm for leading aquatic group fitness began in 2005 and has since enabled him to present internationally as a Zumba® Education Specialist for Aqua Zumba®. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and holds current certifications with ACE, AFAA, and AEA.
Born in Santa Clara, Cuba. Betsy started to participate, from the age of 4, in different professional dance groups. Since then, Betsy has an absolute passion for music and dance. She studied Modern, Classical Ballet, Flamenco Dance and Latin Rhythms. Betsy was a member of many important and well known groups on her beautiful island, CUBA!!! that performed in the distinguished “Federico Garcia Lorca Theater”. Winner of many performance awards., she also a won for her talent as the best Instrumental Pianist!!! In 2000 she moved to Mexico where she was hand pick by Beto Perez to be a ZES!!! She got her Zumba® Fitness license in 2005. Betsy moved to Florida in 2007 where she began to represent Zumba® in various TV programs and many newspapers articles. She has been an official dancer for the Zumba® Conventions since 2008 and the Zumba® Conference in London in 2012. She is a Zumba® Convention presenter for workshops like Bollywood Magic, the Salsa-Merengue Mash Up, and Mastering the Master Class Orlando Convention.and at the 2012 London Conference. She has been in many Zumba® videos including the most recent “Sweet Girl”. Betsy is the founder of DAF studio and owner of BASS in Miami Florida. Betsy Dopico shows and shares her passion, energy, happiness and dance with our Zumba® Family around the world!!!!
ZES™: BETSY DOPICO
ZES™: RICHARD GORMLEY
International Presenter:
AILTON ANDRADE
ZES™: AILEEN PADILLA
A Brazilian athlete, International Fitness Instructor and Aerobic Fitness Champion of Brasil, Ailton Andrade was born in Salvador Bahia Brasil, the capital of music, culture and the different rhythms of Brasil. He studied Fitness and Dance, graduating with a BSc degree in Physical Education from the Catholic University of Bahia in 1990. He is qualified and certified for AFFA (Aerobic and Fitness Association of America) and IDEA (International Dance Exercise Association).
Ailton’s career has taken him worldwide including 12 years in Europe and 2 years in Asia. While there he worked with the largest fitness organizations to successfully develop programs specializing in Brazilian, Latin and Afro Dance rhythms. A highlight of his European success was participating in the introduction of a Capoeira Fitness Dance program. He also produced several fitness and dance DVD’s with Progetti International.
Ailton is a renowned Master Trainer, working with Zumba® Fitness LLC to develop the Zumba® program in Italy and Brasil. He now lives in the USA, teaching and training extensively worldwide, presenting at many fitness events in the world, including the ‘Zumba® Brazilian Carnival’ and ‘Zumba® Bahia Beat’ workshops at the Zumba® Conventions 2009 – 2011.
Ailton has a unique ‘Brazilian Fusion’ style of dance, infusing every presentation and class with his infectious passion, energy, fun and incredible choreography. This affords him the world renowned following that he has established over his extensive career.
Aileen has been a fitness instructor for over 6 years. In 2005 she took a Zumba® training and was instantly hooked, since then she has been teaching Zumba® classes. She now is a Zumba® Education Specialist (ZES) and international presenter. Aileen has worked in different Fitness conventions and trade shows in the US. She has also done motion capture for the Zumba® Fitness video game. Aileen hopes to inspire others to pursue a healthy lifestyle and learn to have fun and enjoy working out.
AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor; ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor; CPR, AED & Basic First Aid.
It was in 2005 when my wife and I got licensed to teach ZUMBA® with Eliza Stone in California. Since then I've been in love with the ZUMBA® Fitness program. I'm in the best shape of my life-exciting! Also have met many great people, positive thinkers through these years making my career experience even more exciting. As a Zumba® Education Specialist my goal is to help our ZUMBA® community be successful so please email me, call me if you need anything on regards to accomplishing your goals with Zumba® Fitness.
ZES™: ALFREDO PADILLA
International ZUMBA® Convention/Conference Presenter: PRISCILA SARTORI
Priscila Sartori , area of Expertise: Zumba® – Samba. She is also the owner of: "Cia Do Axe dance Studio".
Priscila’s dance background includes ballet, jazz, capoeira, hip-hop, samba, lambada and axe.
Zumba® Brazilian Carnival presenter at the Zumba® convention and London Zumba® Conference.
Priscila is a convention presenter sine 2009 to the present.
She was recently featured in the 2010/2012 Zumbathon® Fitness-Concert in Orlando-FL
Priscila is also featured in NEW Zumba® Fitness DVDs – Zumba Exilarate DVD, Zumba Sentao DVD, Zumba Mix DVD.
Priscila promotes Brazilian and international cultures as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor in workshops, business fairs, expositions, festivals and dance shows.
Come see Nick Logrea, ZUMBA® instructor from New York, who was recently featured in ZIN 38 on stage with Beto and as an dancer for the London and Australian Zumba® Conferences. Nick is a featured avatar on the upcoming Wii game, Zumba®Fitness CORE. Nick is the director and lead instructor for Logrea Fitness in NY. He guarantees his classes to have a "fun and sweat drippin' atmosphere!" Open to ALL Zumba® lovers!
International ZUMBA® Convention/Conference Presenter: NICK LOGREA
Shahidah has traveled from New York to Paris, teaching Zumba® Fitness. She trained with and danced along-side Beto Perez in the 2012 Fitness concert at the worldwide Zumba® Convention with stars like Paulina Rubio, Vanilla Ice & Daddy Yankee. Shahidah has been featured on National Television shows such as ABC’s The Revolution, The View and The Anderson Cooper Show on CBS.
As a Zumba® Jammer (choreography specialist), Shahidah leads sessions to teach choreography exclusively to members of the Zumba Instructors Network. Weekly she teaches Zumba® classes for Equinox Fitness Clubs in New York City, Z Club NY, and Saw Mill Club in Westchester, New York. Shahidah is certified in Group Fitness by AFAA, the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America.
INTERNATIONAL:
ZJ™ CONVENTION/CONFERENCE: SHAHIDAH ANSARI
