Cheryl Burke
Emmy nominee, tv personality, and dancer on dancing with the stars
With over twenty-five years of dancing experience and several championship titles under her belt, Emmy nominated professional dancer Cheryl Burke, tangoed and sambaed her way into the hearts of millions through the hit ABC television show, Dancing with the Stars, becoming champion twice: with Emmitt Smith in season three and Drew Lachey in season two.
In 2015, Cheryl starred alongside Joe Jonas, Ciara and Marlon Wayans in NBC’s I Can Do That, a variety show that challenged celebrities to live outside their comfort zones. The following year marked Cheryl’s return to Dancing with the Stars. In her 25 seasons on the long running program, she has danced alongside infamous Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, NFL Hall of Famers Terrell Owens and Ray Lewis, actors William Levy and Juan Pablo di Pace, reality stars Rob Kardashian and Jack Osbourne, and Backstreet Boy AJ McLean. Most recently she partnered Peloton instructor, Cody Rigsby to a third-place finish on season thirty of DWTS, which was Cheryl’s 8th appearance in the finals.
Cheryl kicked off 2016 with the production, Love on the Floor, a live stage show featuring professional dancers and Olympic and World Champion ice skaters, coming together to tell a story of love and its many stages. The evocative stage show includes many forms of dance choreographed by Emmy Award winning choreographers. Cheryl, who created and served as the show’s producer alongside live event giant IMG, was joined on stage by Kristi Yamaguchi, Meryl Davis, Charlie White and Daisuke Takahashi. The show made its worldwide premiere in Tokyo, Japan, where is grossed over two million dollars in ticket sales in ten sold out shows. In 2017, Cheryl took Love on the Floor back to Japan where it again played to sold out audiences.
Cheryl also made headlines when she was cast as the replacement coach on Lifetime’s long running reality series, Dance Moms. Hired to replace the legal battle embroiled and controversial Abby Lee Miller, Cheryl went toe to toe with difficult dance moms in season seven, during which she strived to coach the girls towards success by embracing their unique differences to become the best possible dancers they could be.
In 2020, Cheryl teamed with Backstreet Boys superstar and former DWTS partner AJ McLean to host the iHeart Radio produced podcast, Pretty Messed Up. The duo, along with their 3rd co-host Rene Elizondo, created a podcast that touched on topics ranging from reality tv to sobriety and mental health. Cheryl is currently in development on future podcasts with the streaming giant and top podcast producing company.
A Bay Area native, Cheryl first began dancing at the age of four, taking ballet lessons and performing throughout the Bay Area. At eleven, she discovered what would be her winning talent, ballroom dancing, and decided to hang up her ballet shoes to begin training competitively all over the world in both International Standard and International Latin styles.
In the spring of 2008 Cheryl opened her first of several dance studios, the highly successful, Cheryl Burke Dance. In early 2011 Cheryl’s biography Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life was released. The book addresses topics that shaped Cheryl throughout her life: from the childhood molestation and abuse she lived through to harsh criticisms of her weight and body in her early twenties.
In 2015, Cheryl launched her own clothing line Cee Bee with home shopping giant QVC as her retail partner. The line of active wear and workout attire featured items designed to fit the active lifestyle of the average woman. In 2020, Cheryl partnered with Bailey Blue for a line of fashion face masks. The first collection included six fashionable and functional face masks inspired by the ballroom dances for which Cheryl is best known. With the success of the initial launch, the partnership has continued and now includes Cheryl Burke Loungewear, a line of comfy, cozy, and chic pieces for the everyday woman who is always on the go.
Currently in development on several unscripted television show concepts that she will also produce, Burke has turned an initial reluctance to leave the world of competitive dance to appear on television into a growing empire.
In addition to Cheryl’s onscreen roles, Burke is a noted motivational speaker. Having been publically attacked about her weight and battling body dysmorphia her entire life, Burke often speaks at medical conferences, women’s conventions and to school age children about self-esteem and having a healthy body image. She also speaks about being a survivor of domestic sexual abuse. Her accomplishments in entertainment were celebrated in 2020 with an induction into the Robert Chinn Foundation’s Asian Hall of Fame.
For Cheryl, dancing is a way of life. It provides a medium for her to express her authentic and raw emotions through movement, all while maintaining focus and composure during extremely high-pressure situations. It is dance that has made her such a competitor, both on and off the floor, and made her into the woman she is today – a woman who is always educating herself and striving to be the best possible woman she can be.
You can learn from Cheryl during her Keynote Session at WIN Summit 2023 on April 19, 2023.
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