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Adolfo 'Shabba-Doo' Quinones

Producer/Writer/Choreographer/Actor/Dance Educator

Adolfo “Shabba-Doo" Quiñones is an award-winning Choreographer/Director who has amassed an impressive 30 plus years of experience in the entertainment industry. Shabba-Doo has worked extensively in creative and executive production capacities for highly successful feature films, television shows, major concert tours, and Broadway musical theater productions.

In the early 1970’s, Shabba-Doo, danced his way into a lucrative professional career, making his initial mark as a founding member of the legendary street-dance troupe, The Lockers, forefathers of contemporary urban dance (Hip-Hop). After several successful years with the fabled troupe, Shabba-Doo embarked on a stand-out solo career, starring in and choreographing a string of high-profile internationally televised specials and feature films, including: Breakin’ (Cannon/MGM); Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (Cannon/Tri-Star Pictures); Lambada…Set The Night On Fire (Warner Bros.); and The Big Show (NBC).

The success of his trend-setting, box-office smashes led to collaborative working relationships with a wide-range of superstars such as Madonna, Bette Midler, Michael Jackson, Lionel Ritchie, Bill Cosby and even ole blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra!

Shabba-Doo’s collaboration with award winning stage director Ron Link on Stand Up Tragedy, at the Mark Taper Forum, led the Los Angeles Theater Critics Association to bestow on him the prestigious Drama Critics Circle Award. He also graduated from the world-renowned American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. He then secured the financing, co-wrote, choreographed, and made his directorial debut with the independent feature film Rave…Dancing to a Different Beat, distributed by New Line Cinema.

Shabba-Doo formed and heads Shabba-Doo.com, a California based corporation that integrates new media technologies and practices with traditional filmmaking methods. He has several projects currently in development including a reality-dance competition television series and a reality series focused on global dance. Shabba-Doo’s recent choreography projects include the Yari Film Group production Kickin' It Old Skool, starring Jamie Kennedy, and a music video for rising stars J McCoy and Tha Gruva. In addition to producing A Breakin’ Uprising, Shabba-Doo, is currently writing his memoirs, Soul Dancer, which will look at the history of Hip Hop through the lens of his career.