[DANCE WORKSHOP]
NAME: BTS – Singularity w/ Choreographer Kevin Nguyen! TIME: Friday, August 10th from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Kevin Nguyen NAME: TWICE – Dance The Night Away TIME: Friday, August 10th from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: The First Bite NAME: Random Play Dance w/ The First Bite TIME: Friday, August 10th from 1:30 PM – 2:00PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: The First Bite NAME: Blackpink – Forever Young w/ Choreographer Ellen Kim TIME: Friday, August 10th from 2:00 PM – 3:00PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Ellen Kim NAME:CHUNGHA – Love U TIME: Friday, August 10th from 3:30 PM – 4:30PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Susiemeowww NAME: Momoland – BAAM TIME: Friday, August 10th from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: The First Bite NAME: Wanna One – Light TIME: Saturday, August 11th from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Crystal NAME: Pentagon – Shine TIME: Saturday, August 11th from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: MVP Elite NAME:Golden Child – Let Me TIME: Saturday, August 11th from 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Eclipse K-Pop NAME: Random Dance Break Challenge TIME: Saturday, August 11th from 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Ellen and Brian NAME: IN2IT – SnapShot TIME: Saturday, August 11th from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: MVP Elite NAME: fromis_9 – DKDK TIME: Saturday, August 11th from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Crystal NAME: Seventeen – Oh My! TIME: Sunday, August 12th from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Ellen and Brian NAME: Random Play Dance with GoToe TIME: Sunday, August 12th from 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: GoToe NAME: Dreamcatcher – You and I TIME: Sunday, August 12th from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Alex Nguyen, Destiny Johnson, Hsushi NAME: 1 Million Dance Studio TIME: Sunday, August 12th from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM LOCATION: DANCE WORKSHOP MODERATORS: 1 Million Dance Studio
[PANEL #2] Meet & Greet: Ivan Lam & Hana Lee
TIME: Friday, August 10th from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM LOCATION: Panel #2 [502A] MODERATOR: Ivan Lam, Hana Lee DESCRIPTION: We love their beauty skills and we love their friendship! Come meet Ivan and Hana at their exclusive M&G at KCON!
Elise (Silv3rT3ar) [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Elise Hsiung, also know as Silv3rT3ar, is known for her covers of K-Pop songs on YouTube, where she has over 500,000 subscribers. She loves singing, writing lyrics, and playing guitar. Elise’s English covers, where she writes and sings English lyrics to K-Pop songs, are among her most popular uploads. Her favorite artists include BTS, SEVENTEEN, Wanna One, EXO, NCT, DAY6, and DEAN, and she enjoys songs from various other artists and genres as well.
StillNotDavid [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
StillNotDavid (David Le) is a veteran YouTuber who’s been around for 10 years! David has over 10 million views and 100k subscribers on his channel and is best known for his K-Pop covers and comedy videos/vlogs.
Terry He [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Terry is a YouTuber from Toronto. You can find his channels with over 290K subscribers & 60M video views here: youtube.com/litup & youtube.com/terryhe
Ellen Kim [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Ellen Kim began her dance dream with her hometown’s community, starting at Future Shock San Francisco (SF) and making her way to Funkanometry SF. Through her choreography and dance experience within the dance community, she has been blessed to teach around the world for over 10 years. Her work in the industry includes artists such as YG Family, Pharrell, Diplo, Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Zayn, and more. Ellen has also collaborated with brands such as Adidas, appeared in various commercials, TV shows, and movies. Ellen is the lead choreographer for the FLY GRLS, a group of award winning and talented female dancers who perform at prestigious venues and events throughout Los Angeles.
Rina Chae [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Rina is a Korean-New Zealander who has danced in Los Angeles with some of the world’s most renowned artists such as Justin Bieber, Beyonce, & Chris Brown. Her first time encountering Kpop industry was in 2012 dancing for IU, and ever since she has been scouted to work as a choreographer and choreography agent for many Kpop idols. Her recent choreography was for the return of the Angels, AOA – “Bingle Bangle” & ” Super Duper.” Other choreography credits include WJSN (Cosmic Girls), SF9, BoA, & Monsta X. Rina currently resides in New Zealand running her dance company Street Candee.
Kevin Nguyen [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Kevin Nguyen started his dance journey in Temecula, CA on a local high school team and trained in urban dance, ballet, tap, jazz and contemporary dance. In 2013, he joined San Diego’s best dance team, Choreo Cookies, under the direction of fellow k-pop choreographer of Keone Madrid. Kevin has worked with top music artists like Pharrell Williams, BTS, GOT7, B1A4, 2PM, SF9, Dawin, and Paula Abdul. He was a featured dancer in a Google Android commercial and principal dancer in Fox’s, “X Factor.” Most recently, Kevin was a featured dancer and gave on-site creative dance direction in BTS’ “Singularity” music video. As a world renowned choreographer, Kevin has taught dance classes and judged competitions worldwide. Kevin and Dea, as the first “Dance Travel Journalists,” are currently on a mission to share their experiences as traveling choreographers with their online audience across all of their platforms. They hope to continue to inspire people to dance and shine light on the world wide urban dance community.
Miranda Ruth Larsen [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Miranda Ruth Larsen is a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo and a lecturer at Bunkyo Gakuin University. She studies K-Pop, affect, and fandom, specifically male K-Pop groups and how they operate in Japan. She’s mostly interested in the rookie and ‘rising’ groups that appear in Tokyo’s Koreatown, Shin-Okubo, and have promotional events at Tower Records. Miranda discovered K-Pop during college and annoyed her roommate by blasting MBLAQ every day. She loves Rain, SHINee’s Jonghyun, HISTORY, TEENTOP, and too many others to list.
Liah Yoo [#KCON18LA Special Guest]
Liah Yoo is a self-described “Entrepreneur by day, YouTuber by night.” Liah’s focus on skincare has earned her recognition from the industry as a beauty expert. She makes super smart, ultra engaging, informative beauty content on YouTube. In the past, she worked for the K-beauty giant, AmorePacific and now has launched her own skincare line, KraveBeauty to press reset on the beauty industry that’s complicating peoples skincare regime.