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JENNIFER BENAVIDEZ

 

Jennifer Benavidez loves salsa; it´s been her passion for over 15 years. Born in the US, her Mexican heritage has given her dancing rico sabor. She is the co-director of Extremos Salsa Dance Company, a very popular salsa school in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Together with her business partner Ivan, they are responsible for over 800 students, 10 teachers, 3 locations, and performance teams. She enjoys traveling Europe, teaching, performing, judging competitions and MCing events.

 

Recently Jennifer worked on several TV projects: a Nicky Taylor documentary for the BBC, teaching the contestants on So You Want to be a Popstar, dancing in a video for Dutch rapper Ali B, and again teaching contestants for Eurovision Dance Festival. Recently on stage she danced for Jose Alberto ‘El Canario’, Wayne Gorbea, Dutch Star Ruth Jacott an opened for the Thai superstar Got Jakkrapun.

 

Jennifer studied salsa in LA, New York , Puerto Rico and still dances, teaches and studies internationally today!