Faculty & Staff -

Gera Klug

Co-Owner / Treasurer
Studio Director

Gera is very excited to be a co-founder/owner of Soleunique Dance Complex. Gera’s teaching style is energetic, positive, fun, and nurturing. She brings out the potential in each and every student. Gera sets the groundwork for her students to successfully achieve their own personal goals as they relate to dance.

Gera fell in love with dance at the age of four. She mastered many different styles of dance including jazz, ballet, modern, lyrical, tap, and tumbling. She also studied acting and voice, which assisted her in winning many awards for group and solo performances.

Gera completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia College, Chicago which adds to her creativity and originality in the classroom. She is very happy to have the privilege of working with children of all levels and ages. Gera is AFAA (American Fitness and Athletics Association) certified and is excited to add the new element of adult fitness to her repertoire.

Steve Ewing

Steve Ewing began his dance career at 12 years old at the well-known Bryant Ballet in Chicago. At the age of 16, Steve was teaching students of his own. After completing his B.A. in Theatre from Millikin University, Steve became a part of the largely successful Broadway smash-hit musical, WICKED, where he performed the role of Chistery for nearly 3 years. Along with performing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, his other credits include numerous music videos and industrials with such employers as Cirque Du Soleil, Discover Card, and The Pampered Chef. You can even find Steve, photographed mid-air in a Russian jump, in the Encyclopedia Britannica for Health under Dance.

Steve also creates large-scale productions for corporate events such as Make A Wish Foundation, Neora International, and many more! Steve is currently a Professor at PACE University as a member of the Commercial Dance Program. He travels around the world for his Dance Convention, Industry Xperience where he gets to share his gifts and love of dance with the next generation of Artists. He is also the Creative Director and Choreographer for the renowned INSPIRATI Dance Company most recently featured on TruTV’s Premier Season of “Fake Off”! Steve has also produced choreography/creative direction for America’s Got Talent! You can also catch Steve’s choreography on many national commercials including the most recent campaign for ‘Nexplanon’ with Vanessa Hudgens. Follow Steve on Instagram: @thesteveewing

Daniel Aguirre

Daniel has been dancing Hip Hop from the bright, young age of five and professionally since eighteen. He’s classically trained, yet Hip Hop rises to the top as his most passionate discipline.

Mentored by Marchello Lee, Daniel performed with acts including Drew Sidora, Jennifer Hudson, Ludacris and Wacka Flocka Flame. When not onstage, he keeps active teaching workshops, conventions, recreational classes as well as setting competition routines in the styles of popping, breaking, waving and animation.

Sydney Tschosik

Sydney Tschosik grew up in Batavia, IL, and has been dancing since age three. At age 11 she joined the pre-professional SoleUnique Dance Company under the direction of Anthony Foster and Victoria Lynn Bunch. Throughout her 7 years with the company, she attended many competitions/conventions and became an award-winning soloist and scholarship recipient.

Throughout high school and during the summers, Sydney taught and assisted at her home studio, SoleUnique Dance Complex. She continued her dance training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she blossomed as an up-and-coming choreographer.

In May 2023, Sydney received a BS in Recreation, Sport & Tourism, and a Minor in Dance. During her time with the Dance at Illinois program, Sydney performed at the BFA Senior Thesis Concert in the spring of 2020 and spring of 2021, as well as November Dance 2020.

Anthony Foster

Co-Owner & Vice President
Executive Director / Soleunique Dance Company

A product of Chicago land’s finest educators, choreographers and theaters, Fosters’ all-encompassing and diverse training background includes authentic tutelage in the forms of classical ballet and pioneered jazz technique from descendants of the late George Balanchine and Gus Giordano. His training background includes The School of Ballet Chicago, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago & Barat College Conservatory of Dance and his dance collective is a culmination of styles, methods and disciplines including contemporary, abstract and classical ballet, funk, hip hop, house and jazz brought on by early-aged exposure to street-style, breakdance and gymnastic training, (1996 IHSA State Gymnastic Team member). He has graced the stage leading such ballets as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Les Patineurs & The Last Waltz and has been featured in music videos for artists Echo and Groove Jam with television credits including the premiere season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Anthony continues to work with and develop the dancers of Soleunique Dance Co., of which he is executive director and choreographer. He has had the honor of teaching as faculty for Columbia College Chicago, The College of DuPage, Embracing The Dream Dance Conference and Dance Masters of Wisconsin.

Victoria Bunch

Co-Owner / President
Executive & Artistic Director

Master teacher, choreographer and performer, “Tori” is a powerhouse educator. When not traveling the U.S. providing unique and one-of-a-kind class offerings, she directs her energy towards the growth and development of the dancers in Soleunique Dance Company, balancing the roles of Artistic Director, Choreographer and instructor. She is alumni of Columbia College Chicago, has performed leads with Gateway Ballet of St. Louis, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has toured all of Europe as Dance Captain for Holland America Cruise Lines and was a principal dancer with Chicago’s NoMiLaMad Dance Company.

Her return to the states has welcomed a wide-array of master class bookings and was pivotal in the infancy stages in the creation of Soleunique Dance Co. Victoria is best known for bringing a students heart into their dance and her classes are highly sought after as she is an effective and exciting educator.