Meet Louis Van Amstel

Three-time world dance champion and Emmy-nominated choreographer Louis Van Amstel is best known for his seven stunning turns on the hit ABC show “Dancing with the Stars.” When not tearing up the dance floor on ABC, Louis continues to teach his increasingly in-demand class, “LaBlast”, a partner-free dance based fitness program. Already immensely popular in Los Angeles, LaBlast is spreading worldwide and is currently available in multiple cities across the U.S., as well as in over 40 European dance studios. Louis recently partnered with leading gym chain, Crunch Fitness, to expand the LaBlast program both domestically and internationally.

Louis has an extensive background as a professional choreographer, coach and trainer. He served as a choreographer for the seventh season of FOX’s dance hit “So You Think You Can Dance,” marking the first time any “DWTS” talent had crossed over to a more freestyle, open-ended competition show. He has also recently choreographed for Fox’s “Lie to Me” and he trained the contestants on ABC’s reality show, “The Bachelor Pad.” Additionally, Louis served on as the creative director choreographer for the immensely popular “Dancing with the Stars” live stage show and tour for the second time in 2007, bringing his unique teachings and edgy style to millions of dancing fans around the U.S. Louis’ artistic and inspired choreography brought ballroom to the people and his creative vision helped to make the “Dancing with the Stars” tour one of the most successful live shows of the summer. Louis is also the creator and choreographer of “Ballroom with a Twist” a touring stage show hosted by a revolving cast of celebrities and former “DWTS” contestants, including former champ Mario Lopez and last season’s runner-up, Olympic gold-medalist Evan Lysacek.

Louis established himself as an expert on achieving fitness through dance after transforming the bodies of each of his last three "Dancing with the Stars" partners-Kelly Osbourne, Niecy Nash, and Margaret Cho. As a longtime, passionate advocate of healthly living, Louis created LaBlast to promote fitness and make working out fun-all through the power of dance! “I run this class for the people who think they can’t dance or have two left feet, and offer five challenging levels catering to everyone from the absolute beginner to the very experienced dancer!” Louis created LaBlast to uniquely fuse the worlds of dance and fitness-providing a one of a kind workout that motivates and empowers students of every fitness level to keep dancing!