Design Videos Free Download more. Martynas Stonys is a leader in the Lithuanian swing dance scene. He combines fun, great teaching, dance technique and helps you enjoy dancing more than ever! Martynas is one of the founders of Hoppers’ Dance Studio, which is famous for producing new Lindy Hop talents and some incredible viral dance videos on the internet. “My one and most important goal of every class I teach is to make sure my students have great time, so they want to come back for the next one. They can’t improve if they don’t come back. I always try to make classes fun, starting with something basic, so less experienced students can catch up, and then adding more advanced movements and variations, so everyone learns something new.” “I always make sure both leaders and followers receive the same amount of attention.

Lindy Hop is a dance for two people. It is so much more fun when both partners are dancing, and not just leading or following.”. Probably the one or the other of you had the chance to meet Abeth Farag last year at Policoro in Swing.

As founder of the vintage dance school 'Swing Station” located in Lisbon and organizer of the “Atlantic Swing Festival”, her mission is to spread these wonderful dances all over the country. Abeth is not only full of energy, but full of ideas and a real source of inspiration always inventing new and playful choreographies. You can look forward to inspiring Vintage Jazz classes.

Besides Vintage Jazz classes, Abeth will put the perfect dance tunes as DJ during our parties in order to guarantee that any foot will stand still. For sure you will see Abeth dancing even behind the mixing console! Isabella has been done different types of dances since she was a child. She has been in the entertainment business for a long time, dancing as well as singing. She is a well-known international dancer, teaches and performs around the globe, exhilarating students and audiences of all ages. Isabella is often mentioned as one of the top three followers in the world. She is well-known for her crazy style and her great expression.

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Her professional career started in Italy 2002, with a quick start of claiming several titles in numerous international competitions as well as teaching across the world together with Vincenzo Fesi. Pontus has been dancing continuously since he was 5 years old, actively competing (since the age of 6) and started teaching professionally as a 16-year old. After graduating, he moved to Stockholm in 2008 to evolve his dancing, being offered membership of the dance company Harlem Hot Shots. He has since then been spreading the dance on a full-time basis through shows and competitions, not to mention, teaching. Isabella and Pontus started to actively dance together January 2011.

Do you already know Stefano Tertulliani & Giulia Cicerale? Here we go Stefano discovers African-American music initially through Capoeira, Hip Hop and Reggae. He makes several experiences in couple dances and more recently in Boogie Woogie.

Shortly after he falls in love with Lindy Hop which turns out to be the perfect dance for him combining his passion for dance and music. He participates in various workshops and international events. His association “Dusty Jazz” which he establishes together with Giulia Cicerale is meant to spread the joy of this dance and their passion for Lindy Hop. Within its context, Stefano works as teacher, performer, musician and event organizer. Ever since, Giulia is fascinated by swing music and vintage atmosphere. She discovers the dance through her theatre studies. Before falling in love with Lindy Hop in Spain, she dedicates herself to other couple dances, such as Tango Argentino.

Together with Stefano, she keeps travelling around Europe in order to participate in international events which make them develop and perfect their individual style. As vice president of “Dusty Jazz” she works as teacher, performer, choreographer and event manager.

Gaby is national-award winning dancer who is praised for her dynamic style and choreographic ingenuity. In her 10 years+ of professional experience, she has appeared on stages around the world, and has garnered various film and television credits. She performs weekly at the famed “Cotton Club” in Harlem with the “Sophisticated Ladies” led by Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards.

In addition, she is also lead choreographer for Gatsby Entertainment NYC, a entertainment production house, specializing in Great Gatsby theme. With a solid foundation of studio dance training, she has developed a unique style in lindy hop. She blends the raw, athletic power of lindy hop, with the grace and refinement of the movie musical-era. She brings great care to lines, shapes and balance in her personal performance, as well as her choreographic work. In New York, she is a cast member In the classroom, she shares her knowledge of the dance with a cheerful disposition, and clear straight-forward instruction.

She is passionate about lindy hop traditions and works to share the joy of swing with new audiences. Growing up in different parts of Europe, Nicolas and Mikaela have had similar lives discovering swing and couple dancing at an early age.

Mikaela (Sweden) grew up with a love for music and dancing. As a child she had a preference for Jazz and Rock'n Roll music with favourite artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Bill Haley. She discovered the Lindy Hop at the age of 13 and since then her interest in Swing dancing and its music has kept on growing! Nicolas (France) attended his first Rock'n Roll dance class at the age of 8 and after only one year of dancing he took part in his first competition.

This was the start of a long competition career in Rock'n Roll and Boogie Woogie. He was early drawn to the show aspect of the dance which you can still see in his dancing! Nicolas and Mikaela started working together in 2010 and has since then performed a number of times at various shows, placed in well-known competitions and taught at many many camps around the world. Egle Nemickaite is a lindy hop dancer from Vilnius, Lithuania where she is dancing, performing, teaching and inspiring the community at hoppers’ dance studio everyday. Dance followed Egle through all her life, but she found the real passion for Lindy Hop and later on for Collegiate Shag too.

Since local scene is not enough Egle and her partner Arnas Razgunas started to travel internationally and spread the joy of the dance. Rich experience in teaching every day classes grants quality and fun with clear explanation of the material by expressing swing music and most important yourself in it. Antonio inizia a ballare Boogie Woogie nel 2002 nella scuola “Dance Studio” di Firenze, diretta da Mauro Barbi. Organizza, tramite il progetto Tuballoswing, numerosi eventi swing a Firenze e Pistoia, partecipando alle iniziative proposte dal Vintage Selection di Firenze, Notte Bianca di Firenze con il “Palazzo dello Swing” e “Swing Mob itinerante”, collabora con numerosi locali di Firenze e Swing Band toscane e italiane cercando di coinvolgere e trasmettere al pubblico la passione e il divertimento, cuore pulsante di questo ballo.

A maggio 2013 con Tuballoswing ha ideato il primo festival swing in toscana “Elba swing Festival”. Attualmente insegna danze swing in numerose scuole e associazioni di Firenze, Prato e Pistoia.

Chiara begins as a child with the modern jazz dance, tries african rhythms and studies for more then 10 years contemporary dance, performing with professional companies. Great fan of any kind of black music, she starts to dig in the afroamerican dance culture: she inspires her earlier productions to the musical shows from the 50's and 60's and then, moving back through the time, she finally lands in the Swing Era. When she met Lindy Hop she felt she found what she was looking for and when she discovered Charleston and Jazz Roots, she felt at home. Now she fell in love with Blues dance, solo and couple, and started to organize Blues classes and parties. From 2008 she travels to take part to festivals and competitions; from 2009 she teaches, runs events and produce shows.

She has been one of the very first lindy hoppers in Torino and the absolute pioneer of Charleston and Jazz Roots scene. From 2014 she is member of the Dusty Jazz Association and co-organizer of Swing Train Festival. It is a great honor for us to host Hot Sugar Band, considered the number one Swing band in the world. Seven great musicians (trumpet,clarinet,sax,piano,guitar,doubIe bass, drums) are the member of a real swinging time machine. One that takes you right back to the 1930’s ballrooms of Harlem, straight in to the golden age of Jazz. With genial arrangements they bring classics with Fats Waller, Count Basie, Fletcher WaIIen and Django Reinhardt back to life for the audience to enjoy.

Learn more about Hot Sugar Band on www. Convert Pdf Indesign Cs3 Tutorials there. hotsugarband.fr. Nejc Zupan is one of the founders of the new swing age era in Slovenia and started swing dancing back in 2004.

He is one of the main culprits in popularizing lindy hop in Slovenia in the early 2000s. His swing dance experience is a collection of many international workshops. Nejc uses experience from modern movement theatre, music, and classical theatre to bring a fresh and fun approach to teaching and developing swing dance. He pays special attention to jazz moves and musicality, both essential to swing dancing. Since 2010, he has been teaching different swing dances — Lindy hop, Balboa, Charleston, Blues — at the Dansa dance school and has extensive experience with teaching abroad in international workshops. He has also competed in many international competitions, winning quite a few (Lindy Shock, Rock That Swing,). Originally from Italy, Adamo is full time dance teacher and organiser based in London.

He loves the craziness of Lindy Hop, the precision of Balboa and the intensity of Blues dancing. He loves social dancing, competing, listening to music, reading and watching videos. But what makes Adamo’s dancing life worthwhile is the commitment, enthusiasm, energy of his students and everybody else around this beautiful community of dancers. Vicci is a dancer, teacher and event organiser based in London, UK. There is nothing she loves more in the world than dancing!

She has a broad knowledge of dance and the body, training initially as a solo dancer and gaining a 1st class honours degree in Dance and Choreography, and a diploma in Anatomy and Physiology. Her background in a variety of solo dances has been invaluable in her partner dancing, and she approaches her dancing with grace, fluidity and intense body awareness.

Adamo and Vicci joined forces in 2012 to teach regular Lindy and blues classes in London and abroad. Both trained teachers, they love to create new and intuitive ways to communicate technical concepts to their students. Their lessons can be interactive and interdisciplinary involving drawing, discussions, giant elastic bands and even chopsticks!!! They have an incredible chemistry on the dance floor, bringing intensity, elegance and musicality to the dance. Their passion for dancing is evident in their inspiring classes, giving dynamic and energetic lessons with a focus on creativity, developing a relationship with the music, and encouraging dancers to find their own dancing voice. They are really excited to be back in Oxford and teach at the first ever Oxford Swing Festival!

Jessie is a very sun-shy Perth red-headed jazz singer who enjoys swing music, dancing in her kitchen to Otis Redding, eating cheese at any given opportunity and singing in the shower and every other (shaded) venue. Her main musical passion is jazz, blues and roots music. Jessie has toured the world, performing in South East Asia, Germany, France, Spain and the UK.

She has been nominated for 16 Fringe Awards and has won 8 Music and Cabaret Awards at Fringe World. Jessie works with many different bands in Perth including Sassafras, The Darling Buds of May, Apocalypse Lounge, Cottontail Trio, Stratosfunk, The Dirty Blues Band, Perth Cabaret Collective as well as The Jessie Gordon Duo, Trio and Quartet. She also occasionally picks up a ukulele and dons a smashing suit to sing with Libby Hammer in the Anatomically Incorrect Gentlemen. When not fine tuning plans to take over the world, Gosia can be found on the dance floors all over Europe (.and abroad ), realising her new projects and creating dance adventures.

Gosia found Swing dancing whilst looking for a way to express her love of music and vintage style. Starting with Tap and Authentic Jazz, she quickly came to discover Lindy Hop, Balboa, St Louis and Collegiate Shag. From these days she has continuously trained, seeking inspiration by traveling around the world. When teaching Gosia focuses on connection, a strong foundation from which the character of each partner can find expression in individual style. Teacher, Performer, Choreographer 2012 - Teacher at Swingout.pl (Warsaw - Poland) 2014 - Teacher at Swing Patrol (London- Poland) 2014/2016 - Teacher at Shag Pile (London) 2015 - Performer at Bee's Knee's -London Flappers 2015 - Performer/Choreographer for Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland) 2016 - Teacher at Shag'n'Road (Italy-Switzerland-Croasia-Slovenia) 2016/2017 - Teacher at Vintage Club ( Munich - Germany) 2017 - Teacher at Swingin'Genova ( Genova - Italy) Teaching at many international Festivals. Since Evgenia discovered Lindy Hop in 2002 she has taken every opportunity to learn and improve her knowledge of the dance by using her background in sports, her musical education, travelling to dance events and dancing in different scenes around the world, she quickly became a force to be reckoned with on the Swing Dance circuit. She started off as a social dancer later joining 'The Swing Dance Company' a show group from St.

She also attended and was placed highly in different competitions both in Russia and Europe. Over the years Evgenia has developed her dancing skills to a professional standard in Boogie Woogie, Charleston, Authentic jazz, Salsa and of course The Lindy hop. She is based in St.Petersburg, Russia and teaches Lindy Hop and Boogie Woogie regularly in several schools in the city as well as globally with a variety of dance partners. Evgenia started to compete internationally as part of the Finnish National Team in 2014. At the time of her career as a competitor she became Finnish champion in boogie woogie, a finalist in several Boogie Woogie World Masters and Nordic Championship, she was as high as 4th in Boogie Woogie World ranking list as well as she was Finnish champion in Lindy Hop for 3 years in a row and silver medalist of Nordic Championship in Lindy hop.

• Part of the book series (IIAS) Abstract Elisa Uffreduzzi, in “Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s,” examines how female Italian film stars used the provocative mambo dance to express their sexuality and independence. The depiction of this Latin American dance in some of Italy’s most renowned films allowed actresses to challenge cultural prescriptions that sought to regulate female behavior. Because it calls for alternating between male and female leads, the mambo’s structure also allows for a certain equality between the sexes, reflecting the post–World War II transformation of Italian society.

Thus, perhaps unconsciously, the mambo became a powerful symbol for Italian women, as it countered the female’s passive position even beyond ballroom pair dancing.