Instagram: @louise.quan
Nicknames include: "Lou"

"LouLou" "Quan"

Louise is the Creator and Company Director of LKDL (LOVE K-POP DANCE LONDON) having founded LKDL back in 2018, and has been dancing for over 15 years. From her position as Director of Marketing at a London--based Media Advertising Technology company full-time (and training, performing and teaching dance during the whole time of her career!) she made the leap to spend time focussing solely on LKDL. She believed in providing an inclusive space where people new to dance felt safe to join class, to express themselves, feel welcomed and a place they could be a part of and belong.

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In particular a space for K-POP fans to be introduced to and experience a professional dance environment for the first time and have fun, believing dance has many benefits and that everyone has to start somewhere. She also says that the hardest thing for people is to motivate themselves to book class and then come to class as people can often hold themselves back, so if you can achieve that then you're already a winner in her eyes!

In terms of dance teacher training, she achieved her formal dance instructor training in 2014. In terms of teaching, she has choreographed for London's 800 year old parade "The Lord Mayors Show", a leading children’s gymnastics team, at various London gyms and taught her own commercial choreography successfully in a series of open classes and workshops.
Her dance experience has also taken her abroad for paid artist performances.
She was part of Rina Sawayama's original dance team and was backing dancer in her music video for "Cyber Stockholm Syndrome" and performed with her on stage too at the Camden Roundhouse, a music festival and other venues.

Louise has a few years experience in teaching K--POP dance and chose to specialise in this area due to the fun culture and the sense of connection it brings. Her interest in K-POP all started with the infamous 2NE1. She cites BLACKPINK, Taemin and Kai as her ultimate favourites. She has seen BLACKPINK and BTS in concert.

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A self-confessed extroverted introvert, as an instructor Louise is loud, energetic, fun, warm, thorough, caring, somewhat goofy and a big community cheerleader who notices each individual in a class and is immediately alert and experienced with knowing what to do and how to ensure everyone feels confident with the dance. She focusses on really encouraging everyone to do well and push themselves but most of all to let go and have fun. Her personal values set the standard for the future of the LKDL classes.

Although she is an alumni of WAC Performing Arts College London & previously performed for various dance troupes (street dance and contemporary), companies and events in and outside of London, she still considers herself a late starter when it comes to dance and has found purpose in showing others that it’s never too late to learn and enjoy. 

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These days Louise is busy parenting while simultaneously and invisibly running LKDL as Company Director on a daily basis 7 days a week and supporting, coordinating and nurturing the LKDL team. She monitors the classes, the social media, manages the timetable and team scheduling overall and coordinating LKDL as a whole to ensure LKDL values are continually embraced throughout the whole space and that teachers and students alike are having a great time. She struggles to be in class most weeks these days due to her balancing her personal commitments and the necessary LKDL office work and hopes to be in class more to have fun dancing, but if you see her do smile and give her a wave! 

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Louise truly believes everyone can dance if they are open, focused, determined and passionate enough about it - "With the right attitude, you can achieve anything!"