Shawn Vitale is a DeFore Scholarship alumn who has been dancing since age 18. She is currently on staff at Dance Dynamics in Rancho Santa Margarita and Jimmie DeFore Dance Center, where she directs the hip-hop performing groups. Her choreography has been featured in the DeFore Unleashed show as well as DeFore Generations and Pulse shows. She has choreoghraphed for solo artist Anna Wade and taught a master class for Los Amigos High School. Her performance career includes O.C. Weekly’s Taste of Newport, On Cue LA, Generations, Orange Coast College’s dance concert and an appearance in Tim Stevenson’s music video, You’re Gone.