Danette “Dani” Tucker aka “The Queen of Go-Go Fitness” is the creative force behind the Go-Go Fitness LLC® exercise program. She is a native Washingtonian, choreographer and a self-described “Go-Go head from back in the day”. Born and raised in Southeast DC, Dani has been dancing since the age of 2. At age 5, she became a member of the renowned Ballerina & Choreographer Bernice Hammond’s famed Northeast Academy of Dance, where she studied Ballet, Tap and Jazz for 10 years and performed at various notable venues throughout DC including Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium. Dani often dreamed as a young ballerina of choreographing for her own major dance troupe.

Dani continued to study dance and began choreographing at age 11, Her choreographed routines debuted as early as 6th grade at Myrtilla Miner Elementary school where she was often asked to dance for her schoolmates at awards ceremonies & school events. Combining all the dance disciplines she studied at various schools, churches and community festivals Dani continued to perform at an early age.

Today, Dani is the CEO and innovator of the groundbreaking Go-Go Fitness LLC® She is the lead choreographer/fitness instructor of the Take Me Out to DA-GOGO & DA GOGO Gospel dance fitness workout which she began in February 2012. Go-Go Fitness has received numerous accolades and awards over their 10 years including the key to the city in the form of a D.C. City Council Resolution declaring February 11, 2017 officially Go-Go Fitness Day in the District of Columbia. The 2017 Small Business of the Year – Washington, DC Scores Mentors Awards. She oversees a fitness team that serves thousands of students with classes in person, on social media and via 3 of their award winning class DVDs. Dani and her team have traveled outside of the DMV by popular demand to teach classes in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Washington, Florida, and Puerto Rico and currently have live classes in Ft. Worth, TX and Seattle, WA taught by instructors she trained in Go-Go Fitness.