Kim Smit: The New Sauce Heels Dance Didn't Know It Needed

CHOREOGRAPHY BY KIM SMIT

ARTIST: 50 CENT - GRIMEY

LOCATION: THE MANOR LDN DANCE STUDIO, FINSBURY PARK, NORTH LONDON

Heels dance has a look most people already have in their head — sharp, sultry, a specific kind of controlled attitude. Kim Smit, known as Kimba, has spent her career quietly rewriting that expectation. Originally from Australia and now based in Los Angeles, Smit is a choreographer, performer, and educator known for a powerful performance style, dynamic movement, and infectious energy that's brought something genuinely different to a style that can otherwise feel predictable. Ask her to describe her own approach, and she puts it simply: "street dance bred with a strong passion for the commercial realm of dance" — a foundation that shows up in every count of her heels choreography, giving it an edge most purely commercial heels work doesn't have.

Her performance credits span some of the biggest names in music: The Pussycat Dolls, Busta Rhymes, Tyga, Kehlani, 50 Cent, Ciara, and Taio Cruz — a roster that moves fluidly across pop, hip hop, and R&B without Smit's own signature ever getting lost in translation. With over eight years of professional experience spanning commercial, hip hop, and heels choreography specifically, she's also brought that same street-bred edge into brand work with BONDS Australia and Universal Store, and even into unexpected territory choreographing for the Brisbane Broncos Cheerleaders — proof that her style translates far beyond a typical heels class setting.

It's the heels work specifically, though, where that influence has become most distinctive. Smit has built a genuine international following teaching the style: sessions at High Heels Dance Camp in Amsterdam, 6inch Dance Camp in Bangkok, and sold-out masterclasses back home in Brisbane, each one built around real technique and foundations rather than just choreography to copy. Her pop-up at The Manor LDN followed that same blueprint, giving dancers direct access to exactly the "new sauce" Smit has built her reputation on — heels dance pushed somewhere fresher, grounded in genuine street technique, taught by someone who's spent eight years proving the style can hold more edge than it usually gets credit for.