Who is Louis Van Amstel: The Dancing Pro from the “Dancing with the Stars”

Louis Van Amstel’s Profile
A nominated Emmy choreographer, world champion internationally as well as an accomplished professional; the life of Louis Van Amstel was devoted to ensuring his craft was perfected. Louis’s Dancesport career and training first began in a school of theatre where he enhanced his jazz, ballet and tap background while engaging simultaneously in painstaking competitions. Upon graduation, Louis attended Amsterdam’s University of Arts to improve his dexterity in classical theory and dances.

Louis Van Amstel, who trained under life-long acting/dance coach, mentor and friend Dr. Ruud Vermeij, is a Laban choreology student, adequately versed in the dynamics of human movement. During Louis Van Amstel’s competitive ballroom and Dancesport career, the total accolades he amassed was a staggering number and they included:

• 7th Time Champion of Dutch National Amateur
• 1995 Champion for Latin European Amateur awards
• 1994 and 1995 Champion for World Latin Amateur
• 1996 Champion for the World Professional Show dancing
• 1996 Finalist World professional in Latin

Upon immigration to the U.S., Louis Van Amstel achieved the country’s 2000 National Latin Champion and proceeded to found VanDance, LLC. Via VanDance, he managed to create Latin Fusion which was a Broadway feature production in New York’s City Center. A subsequent creative effort known as the Latin Revolution quickly followed the Latin Fusion’s success in 2004. A re-envision of VanDance was carried out in 2008 as Visionworx Dance Theater, Inc. Louis’ plans under the new company was to carry on with the innovative efforts of advancing the ballroom dancing art on the theater’s stage.

People seek out Louis Van Amstel constantly for performances independently while maintaining an eventful instructional calendar. He has coached championship master classes for competitors and served in the role of creative consultant for ice dancing couples.

It is almost two decades since Louis Van Amstel got entrenched in the Dancesport world and during this time, he has made many television appearances including winning the 1992 and ’93 competition championships of the National Talent which was on channel RTL4 television in Europe. In the recent past, Louis has appeared as a guest on several TV hit shows especially in Alexander the Great’s, The Suite Life with Zack and Cody and Himself’s All My Children.

Louis Van Amstel has been featured most outstandingly in seasons one to three as well as six in Dancing with the Stars show which has evolved to a phenomenon of pop culture both abroad and in the US. Louis has additionally choreographed most of the group’s performances available throughout the entire Dancing with the Stars’ 7 seasons. The show’s success led Louis to serving as the creative director, performer and choreographer in the Touring Show of Dancing with the Stars which has continuously been performing in cities throughout Canada and the US.

Louis is constantly active and is currently occupied by a number of concurrent ventures including physical fitness promotion through dance instruction and dancing. The numerous classes he has in the area of Los Angeles have experienced immense success while catering to a broad clientele range. Additionally, Louis has simultaneously launched a line of fitness and instructional dance DVDs for enhancing the experience of learning. The newest Louis Van Amstel release is the creation series of Dance Body Beautiful with Lisa Rinna as the starring and Warner Home Video as the distributor.