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Michael started skating at the young age of 8 when his parents took him to a local ice rink in his hometown of Los Angeles, CA USA. He quickly picked up the sport, began private lessons and skated for the United States for over 10 years as an amateur skater. During his years an amateur skater Michael was part of the 1998 Jr. Olympic Team, 2001 US Figure Skating Team and in 2004 MLFS Professional World Bronze Medalist. He trained under the worlds best figure skating coaches in the sport such as Frank Carroll, Robin Cousins, Sashi Kuchiki, Denise Kuchiki, Cindy Stuart, Kathy Casey, Janet Champion and Karen Kresge.
When Michael turned 18 years of age he quickly became one of the youngest professional male figure skaters in the world by turning from an amateur figure skater for the United States to a Professional Figure Skater which than he started touring the world with different international ice productions. Michael skated around the would touring over 600 different cities on different continents in over 40 countries. Performing for international Royalty, Presidents, Prime Ministers and other major public figures including celebrities, Michael has shown his artistic athletic abilities to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Michael has starred and been featured in over 20 live multi-city touring productions including productions with Holiday On Ice, Disney On Ice and many other well known elite international skating tours. In 2005, Michael landed the role of Dash from Disney/Pixars Disney On Ice "The Incredibles" and was the principal of the domestic and international tour. Michael has also appeared in numerous figure skating commercials including Iceoplex, Disney On Ice, Del Taco and the list continues. Michael was also the face and spokesperson for many well known international companies including The Walt Disney Company, HydroSport, Holiday On Ice, Stage Entertainment and Feld Entertainment.
Kuluva also starred in the 2007 documentary, "The Making of Spirit" which was filmed over a 3 month span of time in Holland and Germany while Michael plus the creative team of the ice show created a brand new production named "Spirit". The documentary film finally showed the behind the scenes of making a multi-million dollar touring production with international award winning set designs and costumes. The documentary went on to DVD internationally in 2008 plus is sold internationally. After Michael skated on the Today Show, FOX, Regis and Kelly, NBC, Univision, ABC, ESPN, France Television, NHK, Good Morning America and doing the motion picture with SONY/MGM.
At his young age, Michael has worked his way up to be one of the youngest, most talented and recognized names in the professional figure skating world and is now conquering the fashion world as his fashion brand "Tumbler and Tipsy" has sky rocketed by his surprise when it was launched in 2009. Tumbler and Tipsy has expanded into a full international brand that is seen in over 100 publications. Michael Kuluva is the worlds first fashion designer to design from a virtual video game to the runway at New York Fashion Week with his fashion label Tumbler and Tipsy. Celebrities around the world adore this new adventurous fashion week label and have a strong following of supporters of Kuluva's vision into the creative world of fashion.
Not only being an international fashion designer with his designs distributed to over 25 countries of the world, Michael loves to style fashion on his down time. Kuluva is a designer and stylist to the movie industry, musicians, traveling production tours, red carpet celebrities, Olympic athletes, magazine publications, award shows plus styling live fashion shows during the exclusive Fashion Week in various parts of the world. Kuluva has had extensive schooling at the prestigious private U.S. fashion school FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising).
Michael has also made history with being the first figure skater to come out and support the NOH8 against Prop 8 Campaign in California/United States. Michael joined two other high profile athletes, Olympian athlete Greg Louganis and NBA star Isiah Thomas as the only professional athletes to support the NOH8 cause. Kuluva is a strong activist about everyone having the same human rights as everyone else. Michael is eager to continue into the future with all his charities that he is involved with, including APLA and Dress for Success, his skating career and of course his fashion label Tumbler and Tipsy.
