OUR TEAM
Kelli Forman
Executive Director
Kelli Forman is an international teaching artist and choreographer from the United States. After years of intensive training in the American Midwest, Kelli danced professionally in New York City and Los Angeles, working on shows such as X-Factor, Dancing With the Stars, America’s Got Talent, and Glee and modeling for companies such as Coca-Cola and Reebok. Kelli later completed her degree in Dance at the University of California Santa Barbara, advocated extensively for diversity in K-12 and collegiate dance education, and for six years held the position of National Director for Everybody Dance Now!, a dance non-profit organization that provided free dance to thousands of low-income youth each year across the United States. Kelli truly enjoys building community globally, traveling the world as a teaching artist and choreographer in Contemporary, Chicago Footwork, and Heels Dance. Kelli is member of Creation Global, an international Chicago Footwork crew. Kelli is also healer, Certified Massage Therapist, and Yoga & Meditation Instructor. Kelli is a co-founder of Chicago Footworkology, a project created in response to the global pandemic that provides online dance and music programming to educate students world-wide about Chicago Footwork culture. Kelli envisions and works towards an international network of artists who will be able to creatively develop a more healthy Earth.
Charles Parks
Creative Director
Charles Parks, aka King Charles, is a Chicago Footwork pioneer from the Southside of Chicago and a prominent international teaching artist for Chicago Footwork. He has been a global ambassador for the art form for over 20 years. King Charles is the founder and leader of Creation Global, an international Chicago Footwork dance crew with over 90 members worldwide. King Charles was the Artistic Director of renowned Chicago dance company, The FootworKINGZ, who was featured on major television shows including America's Got Talent and America's Best Dance Crew. King Charles has worked professionally with many iconic artists including touring with Madonna for years and performing with artists such as Elton John and Will I Am. King Charles continues to blow audiences away with his energy and creativity. His commercial work and stage performances include Omarian, Twista, Bakermat, Willow Smith, Verizon, and Nike- just to name a few. King Charles is also a mentor to many future leaders world-wide and a skilled rapper/MC. King Charles is a co-founder of Chicago Footworkology, a project created in response to the global pandemic that provides online dance and music programming to educate students world-wide about Chicago Footwork culture.
Kelly Ireland
Operations Manager
Kelly Ireland is from Slippery Rock, PA where she began her dance training at the age of 5. She attended high school at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School as a dance major and graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in dance and minor in hospitality. Kelly is a member of the dance troupe The Painted Ladies and performed as a New York Riptide Dancer for the National Lacrosse League for their 2021-2022 season. She is a swing for a new children’s dance show Woof Woof the Shadow Pup, touring locally Connecticut. Kelly is also an experienced choreographer, dance educator, and arts administrator. She is currently an outreach teaching artist for Steffi Nossen School of Dance and has been a guest instructor at studios across the country including Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Nevada, and more. As a choreographer, her work has been presented at Florida State University, One Day Dance, and various regional and national dance competitions. Kelly is the former Content Marketing Manager for Ballet Hispánico and has recently joined the team of Everybody Dance Now! as their Operations Manager.
Kelsie Jeffords
Social Media Manager, National Program Manager
Kelsie Jeffords is a dancer and creative living in Los Angeles. When it comes to work, she’s always looking for ways to combine her passions, and Creative Netwerk provides that opportunity as she is able to utilize her love for developing a brand through creative strategy and social media, with her love for using dance to inspire others and build communities. With 6+ years of social media management, consulting, and brand development experience, Kelsie is eager to push the Creative Netwerk brand forward so that it can reach and inspire the widest audience possible. As a dancer herself, Kelsie has had the opportunity to tour around the world working with brands such as Kidz Bop, and America’s Got Talent, and has seen firsthand the impact dance has on all different kinds of communities, so she is grateful to continue being a part of that impact with Creative Netwerk.
Paris Davison
Santa Barbara Program Manager
Paris is a well known choreographer, instructor, creative director, and dancer in the 805. Paris has been in a number of professional dance/training opportunities with Samantha Caudle, Melissa Barlow, Eric Bellinger, Candice Craig, Hiphop Mindset, D Main and more. She has competed on Latin TV and Hiphop International making it to the semi finals. Paris is the founder and creator of The P$ Experience and P$ Academy. She offers classes for all ages in Hiphop and Jazz funk, and also specializes in Adult Heels classes.
Daniel “Chrybaby” Holloway
New York City Program Manager
Chrybaby Cozie is one of the founding fathers of the Hip Hop freestyle genre called Lite Feet. Being raised in Harlem in the late 80’s was a source of great influence for Chrybaby, as it was his foundation for dance, music and the source of inspiration to uplift the youth and communities around him today. Chrybaby has been teaching Lite Feet and Hip Hop for more than 10 years and is currently teaching at the Peridance Center in NYC. Chrybaby has been cultivating and keeping the Lite Feet culture alive for ten years with the NYC youth. And through the culture, he has created a Hip Hop dance organization called ‘The Breakfast Club’ E.A.T (Earning All Together) in 2005. ‘The Breakfast Club’ is a platform for youth, to build upon their passion, talent and be given an opportunity to promote themselves in a positive light. After the creation of ‘The Breakfast Club’ Chrybaby created ‘The Lite Feet Nation’; a community connected by individuals who were there from the conception of the dance genre, to the youth who keep it alive today. Chrybaby’s extensive knowledge of Hip Hop and Lite Feet has led him to working with artists such as Chris Brown “Kiss Kiss”, Ron Browz “Pop Champagne” ft. Jim Jones and Jules Santana, and ASAP Ferg “Dope Walk.” His dedication and love for the culture has changed his life and inspired many others around him.
Michael Davis better known as Mike D Chicago, raised on the southside of Chicago, is a man of many talents. Mike is a singer, dancer, rap artist, instructor, mentor, music producer, and choreographer. Mike is a member of Creation Global, an international Chicago Footwork crew. Mike is known as the "Gatekeeper" for the crew, as he often provided a safe space for Creation to practice for many of the beginning years of the crew's strong presence in Chicago- and he carries that same energy of providing spaces and opportunities for the crew to this day. Mike has choreographed and danced for the Chicago Bulls, Chance The Rapper, Lollapalooza, and many other industry performances. Mike is a community leader, and worked in the Chicago Park Districts for years, providing programming including dance to the youth of Chicago. Mike is also the co-founder of Bangout Workout, a company created to promote healthy living through ongoing fitness classes using Chicago-based dances and music. Mike enjoys able to use all of his gifts to hel[ and encourage others along the way with positive energy. His single “Claim It” is a testimony to what he’s attempting to do and where he’s headed with it.
Michael Davis “Mike D Chicago”
Chicago Program Manager
Morgan Martin
Chicago Program Manager
Morgan Martin has taken on the role of so many things. She is a NASM Certified Group Instructor, Founder of Live and Believe Wellness, LLC, Executive Director of We Live And Believe, Owner of The LAB Transformation Center on the Southside of Chicago, Dancer, Motivational Speaker, and much more. But it is through her work in the field of fitness, dance, mindfulness, self-care, nutrition and motivational speaking that she was given the title “Transformation Specialist.” She graduated from the University of Illinois where she majored in Broadcast Journalism and was a member of the University of Illinois Varsity Cheerleading team. It was there that she began an interest in health and fitness. Through her online transformation programs, Journal Release workshops, and fitness classes, she has helped countless adults and teens transform their bodies, elevate their mindset and fall in love with themselves while empowering them to create a self-care routine. “It is my mission to help people transform mentally, physically and spiritually while helping them live a life they love and to believe that anything they see for themselves is possible. That is what “Live And Believe” is about.”-Morgan Martin