Director and choreographer, Wes Veldink, discovered his passion for teaching dance early on when he co-founded All That Jazz Dance Studio in Grants Pass, Oregon at age 16.  He later moved to Los Angeles to complete his senior year of high school at the elite Orange County High School for the Performing Arts.  Throughout the next decade, Wes became well known as a performer, teacher and choreographer.  He appeared in the Disney film Newsies, co-choreographed Paula Abdul’s video for “Blowing Kisses in the Wind,” was Michael Jackson’s dance double on two videos, and was invited to improvise live onstage with singer/songwriter Ani Difranco.  As a teacher, Wes was a popular faculty member at Tremaine Dance Center and Edge Performing Arts Center, where he trained and inspired scholarship students making the transition to professional dance as well as professionals from throughout the world who came to study dance in Los Angeles.  Dance companies and institutions across the globe began inviting Wes to both teach and choreograph including the Oslo State Ballet School and Oslo Dance Ensemble (Norway), the Osaka School of Music and K-Broadway (Japan), the Mediterraneo Dance Festival (Italy), Le Harmonique (France), The Dance Center (Holland), and the Nadine Bommer Academy (Israel), not to mention universities, conservatories, and conventions throughout the United States and Canada. 
 
In 1999, Wes relocated to New York City to found his own professional dance company, The Wes Veldink Movement.  After an overwhelming response from New York audiences, the company toured to Los Angeles, Toronto and South Korea.  Wes and his company have been featured in such internationally respected publications as Dance Spirit Magazine, European Dance News, Dance Life, Aftenposten Publications, Yomiyuri Newspaper, and they were on the cover of Expressions Italian Dance Magazine.  In 2005, Wes created and directed the Professional Program, a 10-month intensive training scholarship program at Broadway Dance Center in New York, where young dancers were mentored in navigating a career of integrity while making the transition to becoming professional dance artists.  Currently, Wes is on the faculty of STEPS and PERIDANCE in New York City and the national convention tour of Monsters of Contemporary.  He is the director of the Continuing Education/Teacher Training program for DanzEmergencee, LLC and launched his new production company, Calm & Sense, with his first dance short film Full Circle which he conceived, directed and choreographed.
 
Wes continues to work commercially having choreographed Kate Moss in an international Nikon campaign and Ashlyne Huff’s music video for “Heart of Gold” as well as her 30 city promotional tour.  Wes is featured in the upcoming dance documentary film Move and recently choreographed Gwyneth Paltrow and Leighton Meester in the feature film Love Don’t Let Me Down. 
 
Meanwhile, the studio he co-founded at age 16 just celebrated its 20th successful year in business.