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Skrivet av Johan Stigwall
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2006-01-03 |
Kevin & Jo
Kevin and Jo bring a fresh edge to
Lindy Hop with inventive aerials, musical routines and high speed dancing.
They began their partnership in 2007, and together they hold titles
at the American Lindy Hop Championship, the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown,
and the International Lindy Hop Championships. Since 2000, their professional
careers have taken them to over 16 countries on five continents including
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With clear
and humorous instruction, these two creative and versatile dancers will
entertain, inspire and help you become the best dancer you can be.
If you would like more information
on them, you can find them at http://kevinstlaurent.com and http://johoffberg.com
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Juan & Sharon
Juan Villafañe and Sharon Davis formed their dance partnership in 2006. Together they represent a diverse social and performance dance talent, including not only Lindy Hop, but also 1920s Charleston, vernacular jazz, softshoe tap, blues, acrobatics, burlesque and various other performance artforms of the jazz era. Both extremely popular on the social dance floor, they are known for their warm personalities, approachability, and endless passion for vintage jazz dance and music. With strong backgrounds in performance, they are charismatic and entertaining on stage. Their classes focus on developing dynamic connection, natural movement, flow and body awareness as a pathway to individual style, improvisation and musicality. Together they hold first place titles at the International Lindy Hop Championships, Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, National Jitterbug Championships, Canadian Swing Championships and other competitions internationally. Visit www.sharonandjuan.com to find out more about them. |
Frida & Skye
Skye originally pressured into taking
Lindy Hop classes by his mother at the tender age of 12, Skye soon found
that social dancing really is the best thing in life. Over the past
9 years he has performed, taught, and competed both nationally and internationally,
gaining recognition as a talented and dedicated dancer.
Frida is the energetic explosive fireball
lindy hop dancer from Stockholm. She is one of the members of "The
Harlem Hot Shots" and is one of the most precise, dynamic and explosive
lindy hop dancer's anywhere in the world. She brings her fiery feisty
enthusiasm to her classes and you can be sure to learn some cool lindy
hop from her!
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Pontus & Lizette
Pontus and Lizette started dancing together 1999 when they were both about to be 10 years old. They started to compete in Boogie Woogie,
and about 2 years later also Lindy Hop. Since then they have been competing in both these dances and evolved an interest overall about dance, and nowadays a lot of their free time goes to dance in all its form. During the years they've been competing, they amongst other gained 1st place in the Swedish- and the World Championship in Boogie Woogie Junior. And twice 4th place Lindy Hop Championship Main Class which one of them is a 3rd place in the Showcase Division.
In 2008 they moved from their hometown Borås to Stockholm for different but similar reasons. Pontus started working with the Harlem Hot Shots, and Lizette took a dance education at "The Ballet Academy".
They are still competing, and teaching around Sweden and the World. They both believe strongly in individuality
and to evolve every dancer in his or her own direction. However they
think it is important to have the right rhythm and feeling that results
in the term: Swing dancing.
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Andy & Moe
Moe Sakan has had professional training
in many types of dance, including jazz, ballet, tap and contemporary
dance. In 1999 Moe fell in love with the Lindy Hop, since then this
has been her dance of choice.
A pearl of the Orient, Moe moved to London
in 2000, bringing a sparkle to the local swing dancing scene, and soon
became the UK's top female swing dancer. An active social and competition
dancer, she is proud to have won several UK and US competition titles.
Winning the world's biggest Jack 'n Jill competition with Marcus Koch
at Frankie 99 is one of the most special titles Moe has been proud to
win.
Moe travels the world extensively
both for social dancing and teaching Lindy Hop. Countries Moe has taught
in include Sweden, Spain, Japan, Germany, France, Belgium and of course
the UK. She has also enjoyed dancing for several productions, including
theatre, television and film.
Well known as a vintage enthusiast, Moe
is passionate about the music and fashion of the Swing era. Her dedication
to the culture is also reflected in her attitude towards the dance,
as she constantly endeavours to recreate an authentic style, and her
passion certainly reflects the spirit of the dance as it was back in
the day.
Passionate by jazz music, Andy Spitz start dancing by chance at the
age of 18. After 6 months he met Frankie in Bruxelles and fell in love with
swing dancing. Since 10 years, he has been travelling around the world dancing,
training and teaching his art. His background in physical education and his
knowledge in martial arts, considerably
influence his dancing and his teaching. His understanding of dancing
is based on the natural body reaction as well as the natural way of moving. Andy
is well known for is crazy footwork, his awesome slide and his musicality. His
basic idea about dancing is just following the music and let the body express himself.
Andy is a Jazz and Swing addict, also well know for his solo jazz & Charleston performance and
his amazing Balboa. |
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Senast uppdaterad ( 2010-02-18 )
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