AFTER over 1,300 stage perfomances and 47 Off-BroODWAY shows welling Soon began To fall in love with the transition from dancing AND choreographing TO FILMING DANCERS. He SOON intitiated "THE AXI" TV./WEB Series STARRING SOME OF THE BEST DANCERS IN THE WORLD. YEARS LATER HE WOULD BE DIRECTING FEATURE FILMS.
THE BEGINNING OF DANCE
WELLING'S CAREER BEGAN IN DANCE, BEFORE HIS RISE IN THE INDIE FILM WORLD. SOON AFTER, HE OPENED THE DANCE STUDIO PLANET FUNK ACADEMY IN HOUSTON, TX.
DANCE BIG BREAKS
HIS CAREER AS A DANCER SAW HIM PERFORMING & CHOREOGRAPHING FOR THE NBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES FOR THE HOUSTON ROCKETS IN 1994 AND CONTINUED WITH NFL & NHL HALF-TIME SHOWS, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL (DRALION), GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WHERE DIANE SAWYER HERALDED PLANET FUNK AS "LEGENDARY."
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WORLD OF DANCE INDUSTRY AWARD
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WORLD OF DANCE
THAT SAME YEAR WELLING WON ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS FILM AWARDS TO DATE. THE WORLD OF DANCE INDUSTRY AWARD FOR BEST FILM WORK IN DANCE RECEIVED AVALON HOLLYWOOD THEATRE.
WELLING HAS ALSO PRODUCED A VARIETY OF SUCCESSFUL MASTER CLASSES FOR CLIENTS SUCH AS DISNEY'S "THE LION KING" DANCERS AND THE CAST FOR THE BROADWAY HIT "OLIVER!" HE HAS ALSO WORKED WITH WELL-KNOWN DANCE STARS, PHILLIP CHEBEEB, BRIAN FRIEDMAN, I.AM.ME, LES TWINS, AND MANY MORE.
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
IN ADDITION TO OVER 1,000 SHOWS WELLING HAS PERFORMED AND CHOREOGRAPHED IN THE U.S.
WELLING WAS SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES IN 2009 BY THE BILATERAL US-ARAB CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO BRING HIS DANCE TEAM AND CHOREOGRAPHY UNDER PLANET FUNK TEAM U.S.A.
TO PERFORM AT THE 2009 INAUGURATION OF THE RASGAS FACILITY IN QATAR. CONTACTED BY NINA RIDGE OF BUSACC, WELLING AND HIS TEAM PERFORMED ABOUT FIVE DECADES OF AMERICAN DANCE STYLES FOR SHEIKHS AND DIGNITARIES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE QATAR.