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DANCE TRAINING
YOSAKOI
SUIT ACTING
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movement training
through his collegiate career.
Traditional Japanese
Dance Form, Yosakoi
combines the intensity of
ecently, Xander was
able to participate in
a webseries developed by
From a young age, he was
cheerleading with the move-
Universal Studios, with the
moving in Musical Theatre,
ments of martial arts. In 2008,
director of Fast and Furious:
but it wasn’t until he was intro-
Xander participated in one
Tokyo Drift, Justin Lin. Xander
duced to somatic movement
of the top Yosakoi teams in
played the titular character,
that he considered himself
all of Japan. Following his
THE 117, an android robot
a dancer. Throughout his
time there, he brought back
that goes haywire and starts
career, Xander has focused
the dance form to the United
attacking humans. When he
on many different styles of
States and formed Arashi
was younger, Xander was
dance, including Contact Im-
Yosakoi at Luther College,
a performer in several local
provisation, Ballet, Hip Hop,
and then Rekka Yosakoi in
haunted houses during the
House, Bollywood, Swing,
Hollywood, California. Xander
Halloween season. He uses
and Salsa. Xander was able
teaches this dance form with
this in combination with his
to perform on stage at the
excitement and passion, and
movement training to bring
Performatica Dance Confer-
has used its motions as a
suits, costumes, and makeup
ence in Cholula, Mexico, in
form of martial arts training.
to life as believeable charac-
2009, and returned as an
Xander also has training in
ters.
instructor in 2011.
Tae Kwon Do and Kickboxing.