Footwork and rhythms for relaxed and free dancing based on a historical perspective. Learn how to enjoy the music and dance in the context of movement & rhythm instead of moves.
Sheila has been bringing her unique style and love of rhythm to the dance floor since 2007. First dancing in Washington D.C., and then in Montreal, she is now living and dancing in Copenhagen, and could not be happier to be joining this community! As a founding member of two Montreal dance troupes, the Cats Club Chorus Line and The Strutting Trousers, she loves to work collaboratively to create fun choreographies with fun people. As a teacher, Sheila takes great care in helping her students find their own unique style with a desire to always stay true to the music. If not on the dance floor, you'll likely find Sheila grabbing a slice of pizza to recharge after a long night of moving her feet.
Eiki: After starting to dance Lindy Hop in 2007 in his hometown of Reykjavik, Iceland, Eiki quickly dove into as much dancing he could get his hands on. Getting into dances like Vernacular Jazz, Boogie Woogie, Salsa, Folke Swing, Balboa & Blues. However, Lindy Hop remained his main focus. Eiki started sharing his passion for the dance in 2009, teaching regular classes for the two Lindy Hop clubs in Iceland, Lindy Ravers and The University Dance Forum (Haskoladansinn). From 2011 to 2013, Eiki taught Swing dance classes as a full time instructor for Ali & Katja’s SwingStep club, based in Heidelberg Germany. In that time he not only taught all over Germany, but all over Europe as well. Since 2015, Eiki has been teaching regular Lindy Hop classes in Copenhagen. In his classes, Eiki loves to create a relaxed and fun atmosphere while using a methodical approach and precise statements to take his students to the next level.
Eiki is also the coordinator of Friday Parties at Happy Feet Studio.
Let’s break free from our regular foot work of 6-counts and 8-counts and explore new and cool rhythms. We will mix our steps up and play with different rhythms and footwork. This way we can spice up our dance, impress our partner, and match the music even better.
The Herrang Dance Camp is where dancers from the whole world meet. There is dancing everywhere, all day and all night during the camp. Join us and experience our creations that evolved between pots, pans and lindy hoppers in the Russian Kitchen a late night during Herrang Dance Camp 2018.
Miranda van Wonterghem loves everything with Lindy Hop and brings her energy, musicality and a big boost of positivism to all the events where she’s involved. Her first dance was blues. It led her to her second great love, Lindy Hop. The addition of Fusion, Balboa and Tango has made her a competent and versatile dancer. Miranda began teaching Lindy Hop and Blues in Amsterdam and has since moved with her passion to Copenhagen. Through her teaching, Miranda gets out of her dance pleasure with others in a fun and inclusive way. For her, the essence of the dance is joy, musicality and the contact she has with her partner.
Johan Selander, grew up in Umeå and began teaching Lindy Hop 2012 in Uppsala. Since then, he has visited numerous dance camps as an instructor and dancer. He has taught regular classes in Uppsala and Stockholm, but now teaches in Copenhagen. Johan has performed, competed and trained with the MessAround dance group from Uppsala which among other accolades, placed third in the ILHC team division. He has also performed at the European Swing Dance Championship, Snowball and Herräng Dance Camp. Johan also created a workshop called U-Town Swing Camp in Uppsala. What Johan loves about Lindy Hop is the contact and relationship you can create with your partner. The magic that you make with your partner to good jazz music is a great reason to spend so much time on the dance floor.
Lindy Hop is all about communicating with your partner through the shared connection. In this class, we will work on understanding the different fundamental connection techniques used in Lindy Hop. Do you know which one you are using?
We will work on questions like: What parts of our arms/shoulders/body should we engage and when? How do we best match our partner’s connection? How can we use and respond to different levels of muscle tension to communicate complex ideas with our partner?
Gosia's dance adventure started back when she was a teenager. She tried different styles, from Ballroom Dance, through Salsa, to Jitterbug. In 2009, when she moved from Poland to Denmark, she encountered Lindy Hop for the first time. And it was a perfect match! She immediately fell in love with the dance, especially with its great emphasis on improvisation and playfulness. From the very beginning, she simply loved the whole package: the music, the people, the culture, and the atmosphere around the dance. Gosia quickly got more and more involved in the swing dance scene in Copenhagen and she soon began teaching regularly. She loves to travel and visit other dance scenes, learn from other talented instructors, compete, perform, and get nerdy about this amazing dance. Lindy Hop has taken over Gosia's life and she couldn’t be happier!
Kuno has a solid background in music – playing various instruments and singing since he was young. This understanding of music has been a great advantage for Kuno when he began to explore Lindy Hop back in 2009. He quickly fell in love with the dance, especially with the playfulness and musicality of Lindy Hop. Kuno has participated in numerous international competitions in Lindy Hop with top rankings. He has also for many years been deeply involved in developing the Danish swing dance scene. He is one of Denmark's best swing dancers and takes a pride in sharing the joy of the dance through teaching. With his musical understanding, Kuno is always playing with rhythmical improvisations in his dance, something he loves to share with his students in class. Kuno has also studied didactics at Copenhagen University, a skill set he puts to good use when planning his classes.
In this theme class we will train the basics of 20’s Charleston, as well as learn the most classical 20’s Charleston variations. You will learn to dance side by side, in front of each other and to lead turns – all of this while keeping those twisty feet going. A focus point will be to learn the cool Charleston Swing out!
Malene: In the summer of 2008 Malene found herself in a small village in Sweden. The village turned out to be the world’s biggest swing dance camp, Herräng. Here she was met by hundreds of happy swing dancers from all over the world. After a week of classes, with some of the world’s best lindy teachers, she was hooked. In 2010 she moved to San Francisco for six months, where she performed and practiced Lindy Hop with the dance company Motion Explosion. After she went home to Copenhagen, she started teaching and has done it ever since. She’s a teacher who first of all cares about her students having fun.
Kuno has a solid background in music – playing various instruments and singing since he was young. This understanding of music has been a great advantage for Kuno when he began to explore Lindy Hop back in 2009. He quickly fell in love with the dance, especially with the playfulness and musicality of Lindy Hop. Kuno has participated in numerous international competitions in Lindy Hop with top rankings. He has also for many years been deeply involved in developing the Danish swing dance scene. He is one of Denmark's best swing dancers and takes a pride in sharing the joy of the dance through teaching. With his musical understanding, Kuno is always playing with rhythmical improvisations in his dance, something he loves to share with his students in class. Kuno has also studied didactics at Copenhagen University, a skill set he puts to good use when planning his classes.
An easy way to scat your steps with words, where you can easily create new combos.
The Box step is one of the many pre Lindy Hop dances that was danced at Savoy ballroom and other jazz clubs back in the day. It was one of the dances that moved away from the body to body connection and opened up to a swing-out like figure and breakaways. It’s quite similar to the jazz Waltz or the foxtrot but with some modifications and Frankie Manning often mentioned that he danced the foxtrot. The dance is great for Ragtime/New Orleans jazz but also goes quite well for fast swing music.
The story goes that “Shorty” George Snowden and his partner were competing in the Box-step but by accident his partner slipped out of his grip and that became the breakaway! Where you transitioned from being physically connected with your partner and then you would let go and do some solo dancing.
St. Louis Shag is a swing dance which originated in the city of St. Louis, Missouri in the USA in the 1930s. It is often done to up-tempo swing, rock and roll, and blues music. This fun dance is based on a stationary 8-count basic that is commonly composed of triple-step, kick, triple-step, kick.
Maja started dancing when she was five, mostly competing in show dancing and musicals for many years. Ever since she has been experiencing dancing as a very natural way of expressing herself and interacting with others. As a music teacher, she feels like listening to the music with her body and interpreting it with dancing. Maja discovered Swing Dance in the local community in Copenhagen in 2015 and enjoys dancing, learning and trying all kinds of dances and styles like Lindyhop, Solo Jazz, Balboa and Collegiate Shag. She loves the social aspect of swing dancing and is fascinated by the amazing community and the great uplifting atmosphere at national and international parties, workshops and events. Her new dance passion is Collegiate Shag, perfectly combining a fast and challenging partner interaction with totally funny and silly moves, which always puts a smile on her face. Teaching in Happy Feet studio gives her the possibility to share her love for dancing with others.
Niomi is originally from Manchester, England. She was interested in physical activity and dance from an early age and discovered swing dancing in 2016. After 6 month of Lindy Hop she saw and fell in love with the Shag dances. She has entered a few competitions and won a few pro/am shag competitions. Both endurance and choreos. She enjoys all dancing but shag has a special place in her heart and she enjoys teaching it to others and sharing her passion. Niomi has been teaching ever since, and has been teaching workshops and tasters in many countries from the UK, Estonia, Switzerland, amongst others. Swing dancing brought her to Copenhagen and she has been teaching there since 2019. She dabbles in all dances as both a follow and a leader and she likes non-stop dancing, all night, with everyone she can get a dance with.
Boogie Woogie dance has become very popular due to the energetic and feeling happy music. The music is often Rhythm and Blues, Doo Wop and Rock and Roll from the late 40s through the 50s.
To participate you shall be familiar with 6 count basic and have a solid triple step. They will teach you some of the most common variations and add a little extra on the top.
Rikke Einlykke & Per Rock have won the Danish Championship multiple times. They have between them more than 70 years of experience teaching dancing.
Blues dancing is a family of historical dances that developed alongside and were danced to blues music, or the contemporary dances that are danced in that aesthetic. It was created and developed in African-American societies in the south of the United States in the beginning of the 1900s and brought to the East Coast with the great migration of African-Americans to that area escaping the racist Jim Crow conditions in the south. It is based among other things on improvisation between dancers and on their own movements.
Miranda fell in love with blues dance years ago and can still be found bluesing away both leading and following to the late night parties. Blues lead her to her second love: lindy hop and she is now bouncing to every swing tune she hears. To her the core of the dances consists of joy, musicality, and the connection she has with her partner.
Jonas first fell in love with the blues as a musician because of the freedom and personal expression at the core of the music. Later, as a dancer, he fell in love again with the way these elements meet in the conversation between dancers. Jonas focuses on the joy of expression and the musicality of blues, and enjoys sharing his love of the blues with anyone who loves to dance.
This class will give you ideas and different exercises to kick off or continue working on your solo jazz improvisation. You will get methods that will help you creatively use solo jazz rhythms and moves to create something new on the spot, while being in tune with the music.
This jazz class is for you, if you have some experience with solo jazz and you know the Shim Sham well.
You can join this class even if you are on a higher level of jazz, as all dancers will get nice challenges fitting to their level.
A fun class full of good energy. We will work through a bunch of handpicked steps from the vast alphabet of Solo Jazz Steps. Some commonly known ones, that can use some brush ups and some lesser known steps that you can add to your vocabulary. We will definitely work on the two jazz steps that most dancers ask to learn: Camel Walk and Squat Charleston!
This jazz class is for you, if you have some experience with solo jazz and you are familiar with the Shim Sham. You can join this class even if you are on a higher level of jazz, as all dancers will get nice challenges fitting to their level.
Katharina has been dancing and playing music since childhood. Starting with the violin at the age of 5 she has played, sung and danced her way through music schools and dance studios. At home, she grew up on Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman.
Her love for dancing and teaching lindy hop and solo jazz shines trough in her classes that are known for great energy, passion for music and focus on connection with students on all levels.
Enjoy Soft-Shoe Tap Dance & Jazz. Probably the best loved form for traditional tap-jazz dance by theatre and movie audiences in history. As Bob Fosse once said: Everybody loves Soft-Shoe.
Best type of shoe for this class is a hard leather sole.
Xavier studied tap dance with Michael Sandwick, a member of the American Tap Dance Orchestra of Brenda Bufalino and a disciple of hers (Michael S. also studied with Henry LeTang, Paul Draper and Maurice Hines, all legendary masters of this art). After acquiring this solid formation from the best tap dance tradition, he has had the privilege of receiving courses from many of the best artists and pedagogues, including Brenda Bufalino, Michelle Dorrance, Jason Samuels Smith, Sam Weber, Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, Andrew Nemr, Josh Hilberman, Roxane Butterfly, Chloe Arnold, and Guillem Alonso.
Xavier has danced tap professionally on numerous occasions, in great musical productions and in all kinds of events. He has his own group of dancers and teaches tap classes, courses and seminars constantly. Xavier has also been a professional dancer in classical ballet, modern dance and jazz, developing his stage work and his pedagogical work in several countries.
House is in general a dance style with a lot of interesting Footwork. This class will focus on how smooth Footwork is done and how it can be used to both House and Swing Jazz music. Furthermore, Ayub will also look at a few ways to use spin as a great mixup with the Footwork.
Ayub started dancing his main style hiphop in 2009 - a year later he started house, and is now know as one of Denmark's best hiphop dancers. Ayub has been doing a lot of shows and won a lot of competitions, (Nøddeknækkeren, gadens hårdeste hævn, Europian Opening show Handball, 'Battle for hiphop' in sweden and much more). As well as teaching hiphop dancing and various schools such as 'flow',- 'hotstepper' - 'gaardbo'- Street style studio'. Ayub likes to use his improvisation skills (from his other styles) when he dances lindyhop, to have the best time at the dance floor.
The Waltz is one of the most well known dances in the world. It is danced in 3/4 time as opposed to the swing 4/4 time. There are three beats to every measure, and in a waltz, the first beat of every three has a clear accent. Expand your partner dance horizons and musical understanding and you will never have to say “No, I can’t dance the Waltz”. Instead say “Yes”, when Dusty Rag Jazz Band plays one of their traditional jazz waltz tunes at the Friday party.
Sandrine discovered swing in 2011 in Montreal, Canada, when a friend said 'Why don't we go in the living room while the cake is in the oven, and I'll show you some charleston?'. She fell in love instantly, and after being to a few intro classes at social dance evening, she thought it might make sense to start classes. Her dance shoes moved to Copenhagen in 2014, and since then she can be found on dancefloors all over Europe. Maybe you'll meet her one day in front of the stage, hipnotized by Gordon Webster's live music, or quietly tap dancing while in the bar or bathroom queue. Her philosophy in life is that if she repeatedly tells everyone she knows to try lindy hop, and 1% falls in love with it, then it is worth annoying the other 99% with it until they all give it a try.
Elisha is an Actor, artist dancer and choreographer. Dancing Has always been Elishas passion since he was very young. Talking about dancing, he was one of the El maestro (a salsa dancing group) founding members, where he had been both a choreographer and a salsa teacher for 2 years. Beside salsa he dances also other latino style such as bachata, merengue and lambanda. He performed in several events in his home country and also participated in different dance competitions. After moving to Denmark in 2012 he worked in a youth club as a Salsa teacher for children around 10-13 years old. His love for swing began in 2015, and from there he decided to become part of the amazing swing community. Apart from that, Elisha spends his spare time drawing or playing basketball in a local team.
