Džajna "Jaja" Vaňková

Jana Vaňková (born 21 March 1992 in Děčín, Czech Republic), better known by her nickname Jaja, is a Czech dancer and choreographer. She started dancing at age 14 doing freestyle dancing and battling, then later began teaching choreography.

Vaňková's dance career began in 2006 with the dance crew Out Of Bounds, where she learned to dance hip hop, and as an individual, learned popping and locking techniques, among other styles. She later became one of the crew's choreographers. Two of the Out Of Bounds choreographies won the national championship of Czech Republic in 2010- one of them being a choreography called "Why so Serious?" which was choreographed by Jaja. Both of these choreographies were among the three best choreographies of the year 2010 in the televised Dance crew of the year competition. The crew together with Jaja also became the semi-finalists of Czech Got Talent 2010. As an individual, she won the Dancer Of The Year award and became the national champion in 2008. She has also choreographed theater shows, performed in commercials, and was a backup dancer for Haddaway.

In 2010, Vaňková auditioned to join a dance crew based in Houston, Texas. Phillip Chbeeb, Di Zhang and Brandon Harrell, previously of the crew Marvelous Motion, were looking for dancers to form a brand new crew, and Vaňková, along with Chachi Gonzales and Emilio Dosal, were chosen as the new members, and the dance crew I.aM.mE was formed. I.aM.mE went on to become the champions of America's Best Dance Crew: Season 6 in 2011.[1] They have appeared on Paramount's The LXD Season 3, and also in the AXI series, directed by Shawn Welling.She is also a crew member of fellow ABDC season 6 alum StreetKingdom under the name "Lady Tight Eyez" given to her by streetkingdom leader and one of the two creators of krump Ceasare "Tight Eyez" Willis. In 2014, she auditioned for a reality dance competition show So You Think You Can Dance along with her crew mate, Emilio Dosal. Unfortunately she was cut and didn't make the Top 20 Finalists. She also featured in the fifth series of Step Up All In.

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