Our story…
Who we are & What we do:
LueKaleo Inc is an education and consulting company striving to teach our clients the knowledge, skills and tools needed to be their best through informative and relatable Dance and Wellness programs. We teach teen dancers, as other athletes do with their sports, to leverage their talents in dance to succeed artistically, academically and professionally no matter what their career path. We organize and develop dance programs, curriculum and syllabi for dance businesses and teachers. And we are passionate about teaching busy women to get back to the basics of self care and help them create a lifestyle that serves their body, mind and spirit. And we have plans to continue to grow and expand to service our clients in more ways.
How we do it:
Dance Education Programs & Consulting - We are teaching, inspiring and guiding young artists to leverage their talents and gifts to succeed no matter what their career path is by holding workshops on college and career prep. We’ve also created a Dancer’s Database of dance colleges, scholarships, summer intensive and medical professionals for easy access. We help build, organize and develop dance programs, curriculum and syllabi for businesses and teachers based on their ideal students.
Wellness Education Programs and Consulting - We created programs with simple step by step guidance in fitness, mindfulness and meditations. Equipping women with the knowledge and resources to live their best life. We are giving employees of corporations the resources and skills to acknowledge and alleviate their stresses by recognizing and correcting its daily contributors.
LueKaleo strives to get pertinent information into the hands of those that need it. Life is not meant to be lived mediocrely!
Leverage your talent, organize your dance curriculum, move your body and take excellent care of yourself.
We’re here to inspire you to create your best possible life.
Why we do it:
A note from the Founder, Keisa Parrish (bio below) -
I’m a classically trained professional dancer with a BFA in dance from Fordham University, a Wellness and Dance educator, a former Radio City Rockette and a single mother. I have been all of our clients. I was the teen dancer who had no idea how to leverage my talents to help pay for college, or choose a different school that better suited my choices and goals for my life or to skip college altogether and begin working professionally. So I became the college student who graduated $50,000 in debt with a BFA in Dance and no support or guidance from my college on how to get out in the real world, make a living and chase my dreams. And as a single mother, living in a fast paced city, I needed many jobs to support me and my child while I still pursued my dreams. So I know what it's like to be busy, stressed, and so inundated with work obligations, home responsibilities and social invitations that you do not realize how much stress is negatively affecting your health. But now through my 30 years of being a dancer, 25 years of teaching dance, 17 years of judging dance competitions and 13 years of being a health and wellness teacher, I have learned the solutions and how to effectively relay them to others.
Over the years of working in the dance industry, talking, teaching and networking with other dancers that chose or defaulted into different paths I’ve concluded and have witnessed that there are all sorts of ways to use dance to get the life you want. From working professionally right out of high school to attending a college dance program that can support the many career paths a dancer could take both on and off stage. I was the director of a scholarship program and learned about the many opportunities for scholarships for high school dancers, even if they choose not to major in dance. And because I’ve taught at and managed dance studios, well known performing arts institutions, dance conventions as well as judged dance competitions, I’ve seen the large number of dancers; recreational, competitive and pre-professional that don’t know the options they have to leverage their talents to create their best possible life. And through my studies of being a yoga, pilates, wellness and mindfulness teacher who educates people on ways to care for themselves, I know the signs that point to a diminishing health. So my knowledge of the benefits of wellness (fitness, mindfulness) spoken in a relatable way from my own real world experiences helps me to communicate clearly and effectively with our clients. I know it. I’ve been it. I’ve studied it. I’ve changed it. And I’ve seen the results. And I’m on a mission to help others.”
Founder & CEO
Keisa Parrish has been teaching dance and choreographing for over 25 years, judging dance competitions for over 17 years and helping to develop dance programs for over 15 years. She is a graduate of the Fordham University/ Alvin Ailey BFA program, which she completed while performing as a Radio City Rockette in the Christmas Spectacular. For the past 25 years, since living in NYC, Keisa has worked with amazing organizations including Harlem School of the Arts, where she was a teacher and also the Assistant Dance Director. Next Step Broadway, where she was the Manager, Assistant Artistic Director and a teacher. Keisa has been an adjunct professor at New York City College. Judged and Emceed at Elite Dance Challenge Competition, Dancers Inc. Competition, Backstage Competition and many more. She was the former New Jersey Director of scholarship program Distinguished Young Women and has taught and choreographed at many dance schools all over the Tri-State area. As a certified Yoga/Pilates/TRX instructor, she’s been featured in Fitness Magazine, on Pix 11 Morning News, NBC New York and Buzzfeed. Keisa’s has been teaching fitness and wellness classes/workshops for over 13 years and has worked for great companies such as YogaWorks, Sports Club LA/NY and Clay Gym. Colgate Palmolive has hired her to teach their global leaders "How to use Mindfulness to Alleviate Stress,” while The Covenant House hired her to teach “Exercising & Eating Your Stress Away,” and has taught Pilates as a Team Building program to the Nike Basketball Team New York. Although Luebirta & Kaleonani Inc wasn’t founded until 2020, Keisa has been providing the services offered for over 18 years.
photo by Chrissy Carter