Mickael Deschamps — His Start, His Goals, His Dreams.
By: Donald Lee
Tags: Dancer, Dance, Stories, Hip Hop, Canada

Today’s story comes from Mickael Deschamps from Quebec, Canada. A compatriot of mine! When he told me his story, I was in awe and thought that I had to share it! The steps that he’s taken is nothing short of courageous and I think everyone who is in a similar situation can get something out of it…here’s his story:

I started dancing 5 years ago thanks to my best friend… She and my other friends used to go practice behind the school yard and I just followed them every time and I sat there and watched… Until one day I went to see one of their show and I thought “omg this is what i want to do” so I started learning choreographies on the internet and I practiced every night and I got involved into a school show which was my first show experience ever. Then my mother realized I was into dancing a lot so she subscribed me to a hip hop session a my studio Kdanse as a Xmas gift.

Then, I did the whole session and when we did our practice in front of the other dancers, people came to me saying I stood out of the group and that I should go and try out for competitions… I was not sure but hey what do I have to lose? So I did the auditions, and I got in! Thus, I did my first year of competition and had a lot of fun! After I had to stop dancing because I went to college and I want to take a pause because of money problems, it was really expensive doing competitions.

But that same year that I stopped I took a pause I started teaching hip-hop at my studio which was a really really really cool experience I started teaching there so the whole year that I stopped dancing, I was still teaching so I never really stopped.

I just took a pause and it was really nice because I got the chance to experience other things and just dance in front of people. I just could just, you know, show it to other people.

And So I realize that I really loved teaching and that’s what I wanted to do for a living. The year after I returned to my crew to do competitions.

Also, I continued on with college studies and stuff but then at the end of the year in April I decided to stop everything because I thought that going to school was slowing me down. For my dreams is to go to Montreal and be a professional dancer and eventually go to California to dance with the biggest artists such as Chris Brown, Tyga, and Beyonce and stuff like that so I decided to take every contract that my studio could give me.

I decided to go everywhere. I decided to do a lot of workshops in Montreal and in Quebec. As well I spoke to professionals, they gave me advice on how to get there and right now I have a YouTube channel on where I post a lot of videos of me dancing.

They’re my choreographies and I just love what I do and I wish that one day I’ll be able to do this 24/7 and do it for a living. The biggest struggle that I have it’s the fact that I live in a small town so growing up as a dancer is not easy because we don’t have a lot of opportunities such as in Montreal. They have a lot, so I’m thinking about moving to Montreal to get more opportunities and get known more and make a name out of it, so yeah that’s pretty much it, I have a lot I have a big story of dancing but if you want to know more you can just ask me about it.

You can reach/follow out to him on

IG: https://www.instagram.com/magik__mikee/ YT://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmUTQLI5FG0rTar8Y_FVQlg