Daniella Karagach

About

Daniella Brittany Karagach Pashkova (née Karagach; born December 26, 1992) is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer and choreographer. She began her career in dancesport and rose to prominence as a contestant on the second season of World of Dance with her husband, Pasha Pashkov.
Karagach continued her competitive dancing career by joining Dancing with the Stars in September 2019. She won her third season with basketball player Iman Shumpert and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography.

Daniella Brittany Karagach was born on December 26, 1992, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants from Moldova, Mark Karagach and Regina Yvette Karagach (now Zurinam). Her parents divorced one year after her birth. She was primarily raised as an only child by her mother in the Forest Hills and Bath Beach neighborhoods of New York; until her mother married her stepfather, Arie Zurinam, and she gained a stepsister, Ariana. She moved to South Beach, Staten Island when she grew older.
Karagach began taking ballet lessons at the age of three, and by age seven was taking Latin dance classes. She had trouble focusing in school and was…