Randy Dias

Randy Dias is a Professional American Smooth Champion and a three time Eastern US Champion.  He recently toured the United States with “Champions of the Dance”, a theater-ballroom production  that  also featured  "Dancing with the Stars" professionals Jonathan Roberts and Anna Trebunskaya, and So You Think You Can Dance competitor Iveta Lukosiute.

Randy has been dancing for over 35 years. He began his dance career in the Rhode Island State Ballet, where he performed as a principal dancer until 1998.
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Randy’s competitive ballroom career flourished in his partnership with Viktorija Barasihina.  They won 30 out of 32 rising star events including the Emerald Ball, Heritage Classic, Florida Superstars, Southern States, Texas Challenge and many others. They became 2006 United States Rising Star American Ballroom Silver Medalists and In 2010, Randy and Viktorija became the American Ballroom winners of the Latin America World Dancesport Championships, held in Cancun, Mexico.

Tonja Martin Dias

Tonja has been performing in front of audiences since she was 2 years old and loving every minute. From baby ballet through many conventional forms of dance taught in a small US city, including tap, jazz, lyrical and hip hop and including vocals in solo work, small ensembles, show and concert choirs, and piano recitals she has taken center stage. Always physically active, if she wasn't dancing she was most likely running or at a year round swim team practice or meet. Tonja received awards and honors for many of her activities as a youth.

With her love for dance and performance, along with her athletic nature, Ballroom was just the next natural step.
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Studying and teaching ballroom for over 25 years now, Tonja has achieved much recognition and many awards for her success as a teacher, manager, as well as a professional competitor. She achieved a finalist status in the Open American Smooth division in many NDCA circuit events in 2007-8 with Tony Scheppler and again in 2013 with Morten Jensen. Ohio Star Ball finalist in 2007, Fred Astaire National Smooth Champion in 2007-8, Rising Star Smooth finalist at Emerald Ball, USDSC and Ohio Star Ball in 2013, Rising Star Smooth Champion at Yankee Classic and Empire Dancesport in 2013, Dance With Me Smooth Champion in 2012-13. Tonja also performed in the popular dance trilogy "Sway" starring Maks & Val Chmerkovskiy & Tony Dovolani. She also had the honor of choreographing a masquerade ball scene for the popular TV show Gossip Girls, as well as a dueling soft shoe performance for Tony Bennett with his daughter.