
The BIDC Board of Directors 2016 - 2017
The Big Island Dance Council is run by the all volunteer 12 member Board of Directors comprised of Big Island dancers, educators, and community leaders.
PRESIDENT - Norman Fujio Kalani Hakkei Jr.
Junior. started as a hula dancer in the 2nd grade. He was introduced to breakdancing during the 8th grade and has continued with it since. He also studies ballet, contemporary, and modern. Junior’s accomplishments include winning the “Breakin’ Out 1” and “Breakin’ Out 2” team battles, and the “Old School Jam 2007” battle. He has performed in various dance forms in multiple Center Stage Dance Studio productions.
VICE-PRESIDENT -
TREASURER - Miguel Bray
Miguel has been active in the performing arts in Hawai'i (singing, dancing, choreography, acting, directing, theatre tech, teaching and management) for 40 years. A wide ranging work background includes travel, hotel work, electronic engineering, accounting, taxes, and real estate management. He is currently self-employed.
RECORDING SECRETARY - Rachel Klein
Trina Nahm-Mijo
Trina has been teaching, choreographing, and performing on the Big Island for the past 35 years and has performed in the Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. She has won five Hawai'i State Dance Council Choreographic Awards as well as national recognition for her choreography which highlights the poignancy of the human condition. She loves to collaborate with other artists—musicians, poets, multimedia and visual artists. She has founded 20 innovative education, culture and arts, and human service programs and organizations which are still in existence today. Visit her website at: www.hawaii.hawaii.edu/tnm
Nadia Schlosser

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Grady Sullivan

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