About the Teachers
Lucia & Javi (Valencia/ESP)
Lucía and Javi (ES) have been dancing and teaching swing dances together for more than a decade. Their balboa adventure began in 2014, they both fell in love with this dance and since then, they wish to spread this feeling among other people in their local dance school Black Bottom and throughout Europe.
In classes, they love to focus on partnership and creating an harmonious flow while dancing in couple playing and reacting with each other. They offer students the tools for both ‘leader’ and ‘follower’ to communicate and create together their own steps and variations.
Lucía and Javi are real masters in improvising to live music. For them, dancing Balboa is a continuous game with music and the fun of jazz dance in its purest form. Be ready for challenging and playfulness classes with them!
Neus & Albert (Barcelona/ESP)
Albert
I’ve loved to dance since I was a child, and in 1996 I finally discovered folk dancing. Then one magical evening in 2000, between waltzes at Plaça del Rei in Barcelona, I was invited to a swing dance. That’s when I started dancing lindy. Enthralled with social dancing, I discovered balboa in 2005, and towards the end of 2006, Gloria and I began teaching this amazing dance locally and growing the scene in Barcelona. In 2011, we started teaching international workshops, and in June 2014 during a competition in the US, I had a personal crisis that made me question whether the way I danced was consistent with who I was and how I felt about partner dancing. That’s when I decided to embark on a different path.
Neus
I discovered swing by happenstance at Parc de la Ciutadella, in Barcelona. The music and partner dancing captivated me, and in 2007 I started taking lindy hop classes, then solo jazz, incorporating balboa in 2009 by taking classes in Barcelona and at international workshops. Since then, I’ve extended this fascination with balboa to lindy hop and other swing dances. I’ve shared this passion by participating in jams, swing events and competitions, and by training, djing, performing and teaching classes, constantly looking to learn and discover everything that swing enables you to express both individually and with a partner. The way I see it, the definition of a successful day is one in which I have the privilege of dancing and learning something new!
Maria & Luiz (Mallorca/ESP)
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Isabelle & Eran (Dortmund GER/ISR)
After discovering Swing in 2007, Eran Tobi spent almost all of his time to travel, dance and spread the spirit of Lindy Hop, Balboa & co. in Israel. He is one of the co-founder of Holy Lindy Land - one of the most successful swing dance schools of our time. His passion for the dance and teaching it lead him in 2013 to Berlin, from where he could expend his love for the dance onto the world. Eran has won multiple competitions in Lindy Hop, Balboa and Blues at different events, e.g. at the International Lindy Hop Championships, Lindy On The Rocks, Berlin Blues Explosion, Camp Hollywood and the European Swing Dance Championships.
Isabelle Jaschke got hooked on Swing dance from the first time seeing it and when she had to move to a new city, she decided where to go depending on the supply of Swing dance classes where she could learn the dance. It didn't take long and she took the dance floors in Freiburg on storm. She never missed an opportunity to soak as much as possible on local and international dance knowledge or to try something new. The dance school became her second home and Isabelle was on all Lindy Hop, Balboa and Blues dance floors in Freiburg and around.
Eran and Isabelle believe that the quality of movement is a very important component of couple dancing. They teach complex movements by means of examples from everyday life and with a lot of humor, so that everybody can apply them easily. You will notice that behind Eran's soft smile and Isabelle's sometimes strict look, there is a preserving couple, which won't give up until everybody understands the move.