Tatiana Udry is a dancer at heart. She trained from a young age in several dance styles such as Classical, Modern Jazz, Contemporary, Rock’n Roll, Acrobatic Rock, Salsa, Mambo, Batchata, Disco Fox, Competitive Sports Dance, and much more. Over ten years ago, she decided to specialize in the Swing dances for the music, the freedom, the technique and all the complexity that these dances have to offer. She teaches Lindy Hop, Charleston and Solo Jazz Roots. Tatiana distinguishes herself for ease of movement, her technical maturity and her craziness.
Daniel Larsson loves to take his inspiration from the original Hoofers. He is one of the dancers still working in the style and rhythm heritage that once was created by the legends during the era of swing. To dance and to spread the traditional dance style built on rhythm gives him inspiration and the power in life. His ability to dance lots of different styles make him a respectful dancer and dance teacher. Aside a broad variety of Tap styles Daniel also dances traditional Lindy Hop, Charleston and Jazz, as well as and is a well-educated Modern Jazz & Ballet dancer.
Frida and Frederik are both members of the of the famous dance company “The Hot Shots” from Stockholm. They take their inspiration from the old clips as well as from their fellow dancers down at Chicago Swing Dance Studio in Stockholm. They spend most of their days practicing, teaching, rehearsing or DJ-ing at their dance studio.
Between rehearsals and regular teaching they travel to perform and teach around the world. They get their inspiration from the old movies and loves the raw style of the Savoy ballroom.
Pavlina Grombiri Korkova and Peter Kepic from the Czech Republic met on the dance floor a few years ago. Peter, who then danced mostly Jazz and Boogie Woogie, soon developed a passion for Lindy Hop. Today Peter and Pavli teach together at their own school in Brno and in many other cities in Europe. In 2013, they won the Green Dragon Teachers Choreography Competition in Cracow.
Both teachers teach with overwhelming enthusiasm and joy and we are looking forward to hosting them at IsThereHop? 2023
Yana Sanamyantz is an active swing dancer, performer, teacher and DJ. She was surrounded by jazz since childhood, while dancing came much later. After the first lindy hop lesson, she fell in love with the swing scene and started to devote all her time to music and dancing. Raised with love in Moscow Swing Dance Society she shortly became a teacher there and in a few years started to travel for sharing and finding knowledge. In class, Yana is conveying joy, respect and love for the dance with her students.
Joris Focquaert discovered the Lindy Hop in Copenhagen when he was studying at the Commedia School for mime and physical theatre. A background in the art of clowning, he takes his unique expressivity to his social dances and performances, forming his attitude towards the dance. In class, Joris tries to share his best of ideas. In his hometown Ghent, Belgium, he is one of the starting figures of the swing dance school “Crazy Legs” and vernacular jazz dance troupe “the Dipsy Doodles”. Today, he is a busy working dancer in Belgium and abroad, next to studying the jazz trombone.
