Yvon Soglo (B-boy Crazy Smooth) has been dancing for over ten years. Throughout the years, he has become one of Canada’s top street dancers. Like many of the world’s street dancers, Smooth is an autodidact, although his passion and respect for the history of the art form has led him to study with some of New York’s top street dancers, including Ken Swift, Brian Green, Shannon (WhichWay Sha), Mr. Wiggles and Breaks Kru to name a few.

His professional background includes working as an instructor for acrobats from the Cirque du Soleil (La Nouba Show), Orlando, Florida, performing shows at the Nancy Jazz Festival in France and winning the Most Valuable B0boy Award at the Annual Kings of New York Competition in 2006.

Also noteworthy is the fact that Smooth is the first B0boy to receive a full grant from the Canadian Arts Council to study B0boying and other forms of street dance, mainly in New York but also in Philadelphia and Orlando in 2005.

Smooth has also been a main contributor to Blueprint for life, a series of social work projects aiming to connect with Inuit youth through hip hop. He was a keynote speaker at the United Nations Youth Conference in Edmonton in 2007. His decision to dedicate his life to dance has enriched the community around him and transformed him into a humble ambassador for the arts.

“Dance to express not to impress” – Crazy Smooth