Artists
Teachers
Gunnhild Ager-Wick i Ruben Garred
Lindy Hop Track
Gunnhild and Ruben are Lindy Hop, Boogie Woogie and Solo Jazz dancers based in Bergen. They teach, perform and compete, regularly travelling to international festivals. Above all, they love social dancing – a joyful combination of music, freedom of expression and connection with another person on the dance floor.
Valentina Heck i Vasu Sharma
Lindy Hop Track and Extra Class (Saturday)
Valentina discovered swing dancing as a teenager. Today, she dances and teaches Solo Jazz, Lindy Hop, Balboa and Slow Swing, bringing energy and a wide range of experience to the dance floor. Based at Swing Base in Berlin, she helps her students build confidence and find their own rhythm.
Vasu is an international dancer and teacher specialising in Lindy Hop, Balboa and Collegiate Shag. He combines precise technique with individual expression, creating classes filled with clear guidance, a welcoming atmosphere and the joy of learning.
Sylwia Rozpierska i Michał Ruszkawski
Lindy Hop Track
Sylwia and Michał have been dancing together for over 10 years. Their dancing is all about joy, improvisation, musicality and fast swing outs. In their classes, they combine positive energy with an individual approach, focusing on partnership and movement technique. They run Swing Avenue and actively support Warsaw’s swing dance community.
Band: The Hop ‘sh Bam Connection
The Hop ‘sh Bam Connection plays the real swing from the period between the 20 ties and 50 ties.
The biggest inspiration is the repertoire of the marvellous ballrooms of the thirties, as for example the savoy ballroom in New York.
Hop – sh- bam plays tunes on which lindy hop dancers could go crazy.
They play the beautiful standards of the swing –era, and also some tunes of the exciting bigband period, or even some tunes of the new Orleans repertoire, more Charleston inspired. As the bandleader, Marie – Anne, is a swingdancer herself, she knows how to put an inspiring and diverse setlist together ! She adapts to what s happening on the dancefloor …
Let’s call it : an excellent band, full of energy, whit a big focus on the pure art of swingmusic. Nice to listen, nice to dance, … move and groove !
