USPDF Judges
Kira Morris
Kira has been a professional dancer for 16 years; touring the world and performing on television shows and music videos with artists such as Puffy, Missy Elliot, Gloria Estefan, the Spice Girls, Busta Rhymes and Lil Kim. She is also an aerialist, currently performing in the Off-Broadway show, Fuerza Bruta. Other aerial credits include Off- Broadway’s De La Guarda and the Annual Taurus Stunt Awards. Kira’s training includes The Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey School of Dance, Broadway Dance Center and Steps in NYC. She has also trained at various pole dancing studios in Los Angeles and NYC, including NY Pole Dancing. Kira is thrilled that mainstream society is beginning to embrace pole dancing as beautiful and empowering art form celebrating a woman’s strength and sensuality. She is honored to be a judge at the United States Pole Dancing Federation’s inaugural competition.
Brook Notary
Brook Notary, native of San Francisco, has been choreographing in New York for the past ten years. She is the artistic director and choreographer of the modern dance troupe, Notario Dance Company which has performed at Jacob’s Pillow, the Duke on 42nd, The Kitchen, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, the Cowell Theater-SF, and has also aired on PBS. This year she had thehonor of choreographing an aerial show for pop artist, Usher. Brook received her BFA at the Univ. Of Calif. Irvine and received her MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, ‘05, where she was honored with the Deans Scholarship. As well as she touring the US as a rhythmic gymnast /dance captain with Cirque Ingenieux, Brook has danced and choreographed for Emittime Productions and has had the privilege of performing, with the off-Broadway hit show De La Guarda in NY.
Carmit Bachar
Carmit Bachar is best known as the distictive red-haired beauty with the sultry voice and only original member of the multi-platinum and Grammy nominated recording group The Pussycat Dolls. Carmit co-created and produces The Zodiac Show with partner Lee Cherry for the past 6 years. An underground, spectacular live performance of multi-genre music, dance and specialty acts with celebrity guests, which has been all over Hollywood's legendary venues. She also worked as one of the top professional dancers and choreographers in the industry working with such artists as Gwen Stefani, Beyonce, Michael & Janet Jackson, Macy Gray, P Diddy and Ricky Martin where she gained attention as the "La Vida Loca girl." Carmit is an ambassador to Operation Smile and has created her own charity 'Project Smile With Me' benefiting children with cleft lip/palate thru creativity and arts.
