We will move you!
Who We Are
Nicole Tuckness, DirectorDancer, Instructor, Performer
Nicole takes pleasure from the creativity that dance offers, often blending moves from different types of dances together for an eclectic visual delight.
She performs and teaches with enthusiasm and joy and believes that dancing comes from your heart and soul . . . the very core of your being.
Dance with Nicole - it is impossible for her love of dance not to rub off on you! Whether it was at a recital, in a school musical, in a studio, or at a dance club, Nicole has been dancing since she was three years old. Building a dance foundation with Tap, Jazz, and Ballet, she eventually crossed over into Hip-Hop in the early 1990s. Her love of intricate rhythms led her to the dance clubs where she was often spotted as one of the few females dancing to R&B. Inevitably, in 1995 Nicole was drawn to the rhythms of Latin music and began to explore the realms of Salsa and other Latin dances and became enticed by the Ballroom scene in 1996. She has taught individual and group partner dance lessons off and on at several ballroom dance studios and dance clubs ever since. In 2000, Nicole and her dance partner at the time were consumed by East Coast Swing, and they taught and performed all over the Kansas City area, most memorably in the KC150 celebration at Arrowhead Stadium. She was asked to teach Salsa in the late summer of 2000 at the outdoor Westport Beach Club, where she taught until 2007. In 2001, Nicole and another professional dancer/promoter brought Casino Rueda into the Kansas City area, offering workshops and performing with a small group, most notably at Kemper Arena for a Kansas City Knights basketball half-time show. You can also see her performing Salsa at various events like with Miguel DeLeon's Grupo Candela at the Kansas City Jazzoo (2004). In the summer of 2010, she returned to teaching Salsa "out under the stars" at Elements in the heart of the Kansas City Power & Light District. Wanting to spread the love of dance, Nicole founded BAILE! a mobile dance studio in August 2005, expanding in the fall of 2010 to the dance and fitness studio, Dance Enhanced.
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