About Us
Housing Project 360 is a dance school offering various styles of urban dance and movement. It is for the ages 4 and up. Both group and private instruction available. We have performance opportunities for our students.

We also offer choreography services, performances for various events and more.

Housing Project 360 dance school is fast becoming known as the school to go for dancing for those who really want to learn, enjoy it as a part of a healthy and happy lifestyle and also to do something new and fresh. We are also known to host the heavyweights of urban dance, the pioneers, those who are flown around the world to teach and choreograph for big stars and in fact the dancers that have already come through our stars of their own! We've hosted Ejoe Wilson from NY, Kraig E (Soul Brothers) out of LA, Brooklyn Terry from NY/Japan, and many others.

Kids and teens are excited because they get to learn a dance style that is fresh and growing out here and adults love it because they can learn movements they always wanted to when they were younger and also learn a new style they can actually use when they go out and also see themselves doing for the rest of their life!

Housing Project 360 students and performance team has had numerous invitational performances around the island and Maui including Macy's at Ala Moana and Pearlridge, Kahala Mall centerstage, University of Hawaii campus center, 39 Hotel Art Gallery, Nadirah Shakoor Live in Hawaii Loft, Visions, Lotus Soundbar, Hawaii International Dance Festival, Hawaii's Best Dance crew, ImageNation Live, Live at the Lawn at Hawaii State Art Museum, among many others.

Aside from being the leader on the cutting edge of dance and movement, Housing Project 360 is about promoting good health, education, and having fun!

About the director Lyanne
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Lyanne has been dancing the many street styles since she was in grade school(mid-80's). This was the time when poppin, streetdance and Breakin(bboyin/bgirlin) was booming in Hawaii. She was attracted to the music and dance style of Hip Hop and was also a competitive gymnast and cheered throughout High School as the Captain of the Varsity squad.  She always remained closed to her roots in Hip Hop dance and was later introduced to House dance(early 90's) and later progressed into that style as well. She has traveled to New York and was further inspired by the truly great and legendary dancers from there and is honored to put Hawaii out there in the global scene. She is the representative for House Dance International NYC for Hawaii and is currently promoting and building a community for House Dance and music culture and Streetdance culture in Hawaii. She has had the honor to dance and choreograph for Grammy Award winner and nominee Nadirah Shakoor (Arrested Development/Jimmy Buffett) and is currently working with the legendary House pioneer Ejoe Wilson, Redness, and DJ Brian Coxx running the Soulgasm party in Hawaii. She has also introduced House Dance into Iolani's Dance program and also teaches Tumbling there as well. She has 12 years of coaching and choreographing experience for women's artistic(competitive) gymnastics in which she developed over 100 state champions, state team championships, including the first all-around regional champion from Hawaii, etc. She's also taught many drill team students, cheerleaders, and was the tumbling consultant for the Hawaii Chinese Song and Dance Theatre as well as the Capoeira group Cordao de Contas do Hawaii. She is a professional member of USA gymnastics and USAG safety certified.

Salsa Instructor Natalie K Ho Talamoa
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Natalie has taught salsa for 4 years, and danced for 8 years. She has studied LA Style Salsa extensively with the world champion Liz Lira, as well musicality training with the world's most famous instructor "Edie the Salsa Freak". In 2007 she represented Hawaii at the World Salsa Championships in Olrando Florida. She is the former Co-director of Aloha Rumberos Dance company. She has travelled to perform at the LA Salsa Congress as well as the Salsa Mambo Festival in Palm Springs performing with some of the world's best. She has also trained Capoeira for over 8 years, as well as hiphop and hula. She enjoys teaching at home in Hawaii sharing her knowledge of salsa she has learned from all her travels abroad.


Luis Silos, instructor of the Funkstyles class. Luis is a working professional of dance and acrobatics in the entertainment industry. He's worked for Walt Disney World, Universal Studios in Orlando, toured with Cirque Dreams Jungle Tour, and was contracted for exclusive work for Donald Trump industries. He studied locking and boogaloo, poppin out in Florida with a master of funkstyles, Puppet Ian of the Lil Boogs who is also a cousin of the late Skeeter Rabbit of the legendary Electric Boogaloos. He is a teacher who will breakdown movements and also help you find the groove within the techniques. He is also part of the Cirque Hawaii show in Waikiki as a performing acrobat in their ongoing show.

House dance (New York style)

House dance aka clubstyle dance, was created to House music in the discos of New York sometime in the 80's. It is an evolving style of dance that has influences of Tap, Latin, African, Hip Hop, Capoeira and more. It is a seamless combination of footwork and floorwork that is considered to be graceful and elegant among the street styles of dance. It's important to remember that House is House, it is a dance style with it's own unique vocabulary of movements. House dance is taking the WORLD BY STORM, it has grown well beyond the US into many parts of Asia and Europe!! It's used by many performing artists through music videos, concerts, tv shows, videos, etc. It is the newest style of streetdance and in the US it's making it's way into the spotlight. It's been featured in two recent issues of Dance Spirit magazine, and on current Dance competitions on national television to name a few.

Hip Hop

Almost everyone has heard about Hip Hop. It is a style of dance created first in the streets of New York and as time progressed combined with the dances out of the West. Hip Hop can be thought of a dance that has influences and/or combines the Funkstyles-Locking and Poppin, Bboyin/Bgirln(Breaking), House Dance with it's own twist and also it's own developed vocabulary into one dance.

Capoeira

The Afro-Brazilian dance fight(martial arts) revolved around the culture of its history, it's folklore, it's music and game of movements between the opponents and their live music. It is an exciting, rich and dynamic interplay of physical movements and interaction in the game of Capoeira.

Salsa

A Latin style of dance between partners. It's a spicy style of dance with roots in the Carribbean styles.

Funkstyles- Locking

A style of dance created by Greg Campbellock to uptempo Funk music that utilizes much arm and body movements that's fun to do and fun to watch.

Funkstyles- Boog style Poppin

Poppin was created by Boogaloo Sam, it's a dance style that involves flexing the muscles of the body and the Boogaloo style which the Original Boogaloos have created, developed and further evolved the style of Poppin.