Thomas Guzman-Sanchez is founder of the International Urban Dance Master Association and has helped pioneer forms of urban dance since 1973. He has been a guest professor for outside studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, University of California, Riverside, and California Institute of Technology. Guzman-Sanchez's feature documentary film, "Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era", was chosen by the Dance Film Association as the feature event for its Dance on Camera Festival in 2008.