Website:www.upbeateventsonline.com
Email: upbeateventsonline@gmail.com
Upbeat is an exciting rhythmic performance group that combines live drumming and cutting edge percussive dance to create a truly unique theatrical experience that promises to captivate and energize your audience. The group is comprised of multi-talented performers, dancers, and percussionists who have performed on Broadway, film, television, and concert stages around the world.
Upbeat was conceived by Mark Mendonca, who has created work for all types of special events ranging from general session meetings to trade shows to VIP banquets. He has conceived and choreographed events in North America and Europe for many of the worlds leading companies including Microsoft, Lucent Technologies, the United States Post Office, GTE, Pontiac, Compaq Computers, Dow Chemical, Phizer, Investors Group, and AT&T to name a few.
Mark's has performed for the last three U.S. Presidents. He was the sole dancer chosen to open Barbra Streisand's final four live concerts performed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden in New York. On Broadway, Mark danced in the Tony award winning show, "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk", and has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and the Apollo Theater among many other prestigious venues. He has shared the stage with tap greats the Nicholas Brothers as well as numerous appearances with Gregory Hines, appearing with him in, "A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre," and on, "The Kennedy Center Honors." Mark's dancing was featured in the Emmy Award nominated documentary, "Juba, The Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance," aired on PBS.
Mark is full of new and exciting ideas of ways to use entertainment to highlight your products, strengthen your company's message and leave your audience with a positive and lasting impression