Little Liz

Little Liz started to learn to dance in 2002 and after falling in love with Salsa, Liz traveled overseas in 2003 to Los Angeles to learn from the best in the world and to attend the Puerto Rico Salsa Congress in San Juan, where she was first introduced to Salsa On2. After attending the workshops and watching the amazing performances and social dancing, Liz returned to Australia inspired to take her dancing to the next level.

Her rapid climb up the salsa ranks was spotted by one of her former instructors where he invited her not only to be a member of the LDA crew in August of 2004, but it was an invitation to become his dance partner as well. This was the beginning of Jaime Jesus and Little Liz!

Liz has been teaching at LDA since 2004, one of her passions is teaching people how to dance. Liz is known for her fun, detailed style and precise teaching methods. Liz teaches every style of dance for Latin Dance Australia including the regular classes in Salsa On1 and On2, Samba, Zouk, Gafieira and Forro.

Since 2004, Little Liz has travelled the world teaching and performing Salsa with her dance partner Jaime Jesus. Liz has travelled teaching dance to over the world at Salsa Congresses such as UK Salsa Congress, Hong Kong Salsa Festival, Singapore International Salsa Festival, Japan Salsa Congress, Korea Salsa Congress and Asia Latin Festival, Malaysian Salsa Festival and LA Salsa Congress plus many more!!

In 2005, Little Liz and Jaime Jesus won the Australian Salsa Championships and also went on to compete in the Mayan World Salsa Championships where they placed third in the world! In the history of the World Championships Jaime and Liz are the only couple to dance On2 and also be from outside the US to make the finals and place third.

One of Little Liz's main inspirations is her passion for live music. Liz's favourite musicians and bands include Hector Lavoe, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Celia Cruz, Luisito Quintero, Willie Colon and Gilberto Santa Rosa. A main highlight for Liz was to meet the members of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra in Singapore and Australia (2007,2008) and to dance with them on stage!!

One of the most recent forms of dance Liz has fallen in love with is Zouk Lambada. Along with her Zouk dance partner, Allan Dantas, they are taking Australia by storm with their sensual style of Zouk.