Oksana Platero
Oksana Platero is an internationally recognized choreographer, dancer, and educator originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her choreography credits include So You Think You Can Dance, The Real Dirty Dancing, Mira Quien Baila, the opening title sequence for Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, and the Off-Broadway production BLOOD/LOVE, which earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography. As a performer, she has appeared on Dancing with the Stars (U.S.) and BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, and has shared the stage with artists including Taylor Swift, Shakira, Michael Bublé, Stevie Wonder, and Kylie Minogue. Oksana is passionate about creating dynamic, story-driven choreography that blends technical excellence with cinematic storytelling.
Jonathan Platero
Dancer/Choreographer/Actor, Jonathan Platero gained national notoriety with his athletic dance ability as a ‘So You Think You Can Dance’, Season 5 Finalist. Before SYTYCD, Jonathan had already won titles including; World Undisputed Salsa Champion and was the head choreographer for Salsa Heats Pro-Team, making them one of the top team finalist in the world.
Jonathan has landed guest appearances on ‘GLEE’ alongside Olivia Newton-John, The Disney Channel’s ‘Shake It Up’, Celebrity Apprentice, and also performed along side the incredible Jennifer Lopez, in her tribute to Celia Cruz at the AMA Awards.
Jonathan was also featured on 'Dancing With The Stars' Season 16 and 18, and was the head Choreographer for Estrella TV’s ‘Mi Sueño Es Bailar’, and also debuted his choreography on Fox’s ‘So You Think You Can Dance’, seasons 10, 11 and 12. You can now catch Jonathan on this season of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Season 13 “The Next Generation” as one of the All-Stars and Mentors.
Jonathan & Oksana Platero are married dance educators, as well as two of the strongest Latin ballroom and partnering choreographers in the industry today. Both coming from different partnering disciplines, Oksana having extensive training in international Latin and standard dance and Jonathan being trained in salsa and acrobatics, together, has made their choreographic style a trademark. Their work became well known with Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance as resident Salsa choreographers of the show. Mixing their styles with exciting high tricks and Latin dancing has made an impression and has led them to choreograph on many seasons of the show creating many duets for the contestants and an opening number. Their incredible talents have led them to work on numerous hit series including ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, FOX’s Super Human, NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, Univision’s Latin Grammys, UK’s number one show Strictly Come Dancing and Univision’s hit show, Mira Quien Baila where they are the current Supervising Choreographers. Most recently they have become Supervising Choreographers for FOX’s short series, The Real Dirty Dancing. Both have worked alongside many artists including Jennifer Lopez, Michael Buble, Taylor Swift, Arianna Grande, Seal, Sting, The Black Eyed Peas and many more. They have traveled the world on many dancing tours and live shows and currently reside in Los Angeles.
