Marie 'Pandora' Medina

Pandora was born Marie Faye Medina & is of Native American Indian & Latina decent. A dancer from the city of Santa Ana, California, Pandora specializes in a robotic dance style known as "Poppin" - a street dance that was created on the West Coast during the height of the Funk music era in the 70's. Pandora's first exposure to street dancing happened while attending Santa Ana's Saddleback High School during her '94/'95 freshmen year where music was frequently played during lunch breaks. Often at those times students would come out to break or pop in the schools central "Quad" area. However, it wasn't until her Los Angeles city night life during the late 90's that Pandora became surrounded with an array of street style dances & fell in love with Poppin'. Through that environment, she met & befriended some local Poppers & began to run with them under the name "The Funk Technicians". It was through this group of dancers that she was introduced to the traditional side o...