We have carried out extensive research during the design of our clothing range. This process starts with the fabric. The latest technology is used to create fabrics that keep the dancer cool, ensuring that your partner will want to get (and stay) close to you.
Even when you’re in your element and flying across the dancefloor the clothes stay almost completely dry to the touch. These fabrics also hold their shape well wear after wear, so they can be pulled out of a suitcase and worn looking their very best. The clothes are designed to channel heat downwards and away from the body, helping keep you cool on the floor and leaving you free to concentrate on that great new piece of styling you learned last week.
Although of course you’ll be looking so good in your new outfit you won’t need to work too hard to get your partner smiling.
The DMC range is designed with a range of body shapes and sizes in mind, meaning there is something for you whether you are a petite size 8 or a voluptuous 14. Many of our trousers can be easily cut to the right length, so whether you tend towards sylph-like or Amazonian we cater for your figure. And most important of all, the clothes stay put when you dance in them, so the days of adjusting your outfit mid-dance to make sure it covers what it is supposed to are about to become a thing of the past. What a relief. |
In a day and age when whining for the spotlight and shameless notoriety are often confused with earned fame, Dean Maynard strikes you, instead, as the genuine article. He is warm, charismatic and intelligent. He is a much sought after dance teacher and speaker, and literally tens of thousands of people have felt the force of his unconditional love and have used his powerful words to change their dance lives for the better. He is one of those rare people who are simply unforgettable.
Dean has appeared on local radio, BBC2, Channel 4 and hundreds of dance radio shows. Articles by and about him have appeared in New Woman Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine and many others. Appearances by Dean range from China to America and from Paris to Canada.
Dean's first video, Moves Moves Moves, is an international best seller and has already been translated into several languages. His work has quickly become recognized for its simplicity and accuracy in understanding the unique complexities of dance behaviours.
Dean was born and raised in Leicester, England, but grew up in different parts of London. At an early age Dean was convinced that sport was where he intended to invest his life. At the early age of 9, he was already heavily into Judo, Boxing, Kung Fu and various martial arts. Every evening from school he would pick up his little sports bag and trot off to the local gym. Soon after he was 16, Dean left school and started developing his skills and then went on to be a physical fitness instructor, earning great credits.
After 6 years, he decided to change his career and went on to a degree in Business Management where in his spare time he was teaching aerobics, kick boxing and Boxercise to fast uplifting music. This is where he really turned to dance and thought then that this is what he should be doing in his spare time, dancing, instead of what he was doing at the time. He invested heavily in the dance scene. Most of his time was spent doing Street Jazz, modern and break dancing - the combination of these adds to the spirit he carries with him today.
A few years into his dance studies he decided to put them all together and create his own dance flavour (for those of you who live in England, it wasn't uncommon to see him down Covent Garden on Saturdays with a mat and a stereo dancing for the crowd).
While studying at University he realised that today's form of Education was not where his heart was and felt more comfortable performing to crowds. After learning the basic steps in Salsa he decided to put his own moves and self expression to the Salsa that we know and see him dance today. This has taken him on his long road to where he is now.
Dean says and thinks that he can never stop learning. When he first went to New York and took classes, even though he had heard a lot about people like Eddie Torres and Angel (Razzmatazz) Rodriguez, nothing he heard could prepare him for what was in store. That's when Dean knew he should be passing on his knowledge to his students. What he now knows he tends to share with fellow dancers and instructors of all different styles.
Dean is very open with his style and knowledge of Salsa and he loves to express them both when teaching and dancing. Dean thinks that he is only half as good as he would like to be and (as Seaon Bristol said himself) is already on his way to making a mark on salsa as we know it today.
Dean has represented England, teaching, performing and doing dance displays since 1998. In this time Dean has travelled extensively, training, teaching and competing throughout the world, becoming one of the very few UK Salsa Dancers to win in excess of twenty recommendations.
He is still enjoying teaching, and likes it when students ask him how to do things from his own style. He likes nothing better than to pass on his knowledge from taking lessons with and speaking to the likes of Eddie Torres(NY), Seaon Bristol(now LA), Enio & Terryl(LA), Pedro Gomez(Italy), Luis & Joby(LA), Fransico & Johnny Vasquez(LA), Alex De’Silva(LA)
and many many more. |