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Storm Dance Alliance Brook Langkan

Brook Langkan

Owner/Director

Brook has been sharing her love for dance with students for over 20 years. She has been owner/ director of Storm Dance Alliance for 15 years, during which time she has instructed thousands of dancers, helping to guide them into successful dance careers, including college programs, teaching positions, choreographers, and work as professional dancers. Brook believes in the principles of providing Storm dancers with a strong foundation in both technique and performance ability, thereby creating versatile, well trained dancers that are successful in any genre of dance. Even more importantly, she focuses on developing dancers that have strong, work ethic, self-discipline, moral character who understand the importance of giving back, helping those less fortunate, leadership, and respect for themselves and others.

Brook has trained extensively in ballet, jazz, lyrical, and tap, as well as acrobatics, poms, and contemporary. She completed her dance training at Northern Illinois University in their award winning dance program. While there, Brook also completed her bachelor of science in Nursing.

Brook has directed the Storm Dance Alliance Competition Company through eleven successful seasons. As director, her Precision and Intensity Company has grown to over 150 talented members, and has won many regional and national titles. In 2010 and 2012 and 2014 Storm was awarded the FDC Studio Excellence Award for their top performance at Nationals. This prestigious award is given to only one studio at nationals for earning the highest amount of overall points at nationals. In 2010, Brook was also awarded the Rainbow and FDC Dedication to Dance Award for teachers. Her choreography has won numerous regional and national awards, including several top petite and junior choreography awards, and teen and senior top entertainer titles at competitions in the past seasons. Under her direction, the company has traveled to compete and perform in Myrtle Beach, Walt Disney World, Dance Chicago, Branson, MO and the Wisconsin Dells, New York City, and Los Angeles. The company and its dancers have been invited to dance in Germany, New York, Las Vegas, Australia and more. Brook has also successfully implemented the the Lightning Hip Hop Team, Pre Company Mini Competition Team and Intensity Company to the studio, offering a wonderful opportunity for dancers wanting to experience the joy of competition at a less intense level. The studio also now offers a wonderful drama and music department, featuring piano, guitar, vocal instructor and a spring musical.

Under her direction, the studio has developed a beautiful annual Nutcracker performance, which over the past 15 years has grown to a cast of over 250 dancers. Each December, Storm Dance Alliance has entertained dance lovers from the local and surrounding areas with its charming rendition of a classic holiday favorite.

Brook prides herself on providing a family-friendly studio environment, and fulfilling dancers’ dreams of performing by ensuring that they receive training from the best teachers the area has to offer. All instructors at Storm are talented, professional dancers who have the ability to inspire excellence from all of their students. She is extremely proud of the place that Storm has become, and strives for an even brighter future for the studio and all of the dancers who call Storm home.

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