Artistes

Claudia & Coline

Bio Coline:
I’m a professional dancer and a passionate educator.
I’m working with a few companies based on both art forms: dance and theatre.
I contributed to my own local Swing community, creating the school ‘Happy Jam’ in Rouen,
France.
I believe in the collective power, in the social aspect for transmitting, honouring cultures and human values. I’m sharing Jazz Dance in the format of solo and partner dance.
What is important to me?
That everybody can express themselves freely.
To understand, be connected and communicate with the music, rhythms and culture.
To be able to explore and grow as a dancer and as a human.

Bio Clàudia
Having Swing music as her main source of inspiration, she embraces diverse, playful ways to develop herself as a human being while connecting to the Jazz language.
Clàudia admires and studies the Jazz roots, focusing on its music and dancing, as a never-ending process in the development of her communication and self-expression through Jazz.
She’s constantly revisiting her role in the Jazz world, redefining what that music
gives to her so she can contribute back through her dancing. Making her individuality grow and sharing it with all the other dancers in the room makes her feel alive in the Jazz world.

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Xesc & Marisol

Originally from Mallorca, Xesc began dancing Authentic Jazz (Lindy Hop, Solo Jazz, and Tap) a little over a decade ago in Barcelona. He was so captivated by these dances that he couldn’t help but learn them all at once. At the time, he was studying for a degree in Psychology, but it soon became clear that his life path had changed forever. Alongside his development as a dancer, Xesc also delved into the history and origins of these disciplines, finding inspiration not only in vintage videos like those of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers or Tap legends such as John Bubbles, Honi Coles, and Jimmy Slyde (among others), but also in other sources.

In 2017, he had the opportunity to start teaching regular Lindy Hop and Solo Jazz classes, and it soon became his livelihood. Since then, he has taught regular classes in various cities across Spain, including Barcelona, ​​Madrid, and Zaragoza, as well as at workshops and festivals throughout Europe, working for four years with Marisol as his sole dance partner.

He is also a member of Cía. Jazz, a Barcelona-based dance company founded by Maria Ferrer and Aurélien Darbellay, with whom he performed in several theaters as part of the Just a Mood tour between 2021 and 2024.

More recently, Xesc has participated in teaching residencies in several European countries, collaborating with different dance couples and their local communities. Meanwhile, he remains fully active on the international scene, whether teaching, competing, learning, or simply enjoying social dancing.

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Melanie & Albert Roca

Melanie and Albert are two very charismatic and energetic teachers who will make you recognize the essence of swing and all its little details.

For 6 years now, they have been the teachers who have come to teach the students of our association and we are super happy to have them.

They began as teachers of Ballroom Dance and Cuban Salsa.

From 2014 is when they begin to teach Lindy Hop and grow as teachers of this style. They also got to know the Blues, which they would fall in love with and it would lead them to teach at international festivals, such as the “In love with Blues” in Tours in 2019.

As of 2017, they began to participate in various Blues competitions and succeeded, finishing in first place on the Jack&jill at the “Cocoa Blues Exchange” in Barcelona.

Another of the moments that made them take a further leap, was during the “Paris Midnight Blues 2019”, finishing first in the Strictly (Melanie) and in the M&M (Albert) competition.

They are teachers who adapt to their students and who give many examples and different ways of doing things so they will adapt to all the participants, always with a great sense of humor and a lot of charisma.

Currently, they run their own dance school giving national and international lessons, collaborate in events and organize their “Low & Slow” blues festival.

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La Banda

Le dancing Pepa

The energy on stage and on the street is guaranteed when Le Dancing Pepa plays. This sextet from Valencia, playing swing jazz, transports us to 1920s New York. The legacy of that era is palpable in each of their performances. The best of blues, lindy hop, classic swing, and jazz reinterpreted for the present day. Le Dancing Pepa’s rhythm section features guitar, drums, and double bass. The melodic elements include trombone, trumpet, and alto saxophone. The group boasts a wealth of original arrangements of classic jazz tunes, while also creating their own compositions. A swing band with a fresh sound!

Le Dancing Pepa have released three studio albums [Black Co”ee – White Pepper, Hat’n Dance, and Dancin’ in Storyville] and one EP, Balboa Lovers. All their work features a selection of songs and tempos perfect for dancing. In addition, their regular repertoire includes original compositions by the group’s former pianist, Eduard Marquina. Since their formation in 2014, Le Dancing Pepa’s work has taken them across Europe. Their perseverance and talent have led them to perform both nationally and internationally at renowned swing and jazz festivals such as:
Move Your Bottom – València
Summer Camp – Toulouse
Birthday Jam – Wroclaw
Nits del Swing de Caixa Forum – València,
Madrid, Zaragoza y Sevilla
Festival de Jazz – Dènia
Valencia Balboa Festival – València
Winter Black Festival – Alcoi
Festival de Jazz – València

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