Dance Specific TALKS

ARTIST: Dwe & Gaby COUNTRY: The Netherlands 🇳🇱 COMPANY: Elevate Your Kiz STYLE: Urban Kiz You have seen their demos online, as teachers internationally and competing in the biggest Kizomba competitions. This year they dared to reach higher - opening a brand new school in Rotterdam - Elevate Your Kiz !! Check out their upcoming events! ⁠ BUY ME A COFFEE ☕ Loving real talks with dancers? Click here 🥰 🎥 Video interview: ⁠Dance Specific TALKS ⏯️ Listen at: Spotify, Apple Podcast & Goo...

ARTIST: Elli Don COUNTRY: Jamaica 🇯🇲 CREW: Flame Team STYLE: Dancehall When he was young people asked him to dance like MJ - Today he is running the internationally known Dancehall crew: FLAME TEAM! This week we deep dive into the story of this amazing dancer, teacher, and judge! Follow Elli Don's Tattoo page! ⁠ BUY ME A COFFEE ☕ Loving real talks with dancers? Click here 🥰 🎥 Video interview: ⁠Dance Specific TALKS ⏯️ Listen at: Spotify, Apple Podcast & Google Podcast !⁠ ⁠ Host: @tze...

ARTIST: Yoda Love Jones COUNTRY: USA 🇺🇸 WEBSITE: Yoda Love Jones STYLES: Bharata Nathyam, Popping, and many more. YODA JONES HAS A LONG LIST OF CREDITS MICHAEL JACKSON CIRQUE DU SOLEIL, SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2014, ONE DROP (CIRQUE DU SOLEIL). BENEFIT SHOW FOR WATER. PAUL MC CARTNEY WORLD TOURS, DISNEYS SUMMER GLOW FEST CHRIS BROWN, USHER, TONI BRAXTON and many more. YODA JONES WAS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, RAISED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. SHE HAS A GREAT AND DEEP LOVE FOR ART...

ARTIST: Nika Mad Spirit COUNTRY: Ukraine 🇺🇦 CREW: Mad Spirit Crew STYLE: Dancehall Culture Dance Clash winner of Dancehall NIKA MAD SPIRIT 🌊 This 15-year-old Ukrainian dancer is touching our hearts and showing the world her passion for Dancehall, a style she has trained since she was a child 😱 BUY ME A COFFEE ☕ Loving real talks with dancers? Click here 🥰 🎥 Video interview: ⁠Dance Specific TALKS ⏯️ Listen at: Spotify, Apple Podcast & Google Podcast !⁠ ⁠ Host: @tzerfuse⁠ ⁠Releas...

ARTIST: Leki Jackson-Bourke COUNTRY: Multinesian, New Zealand 🇳🇺🇼🇸🇹🇴🇳🇿 ⁠ STYLES: Polynesian traditional dances⁠ CHECK OUT: PACIFIC DANCE NEW ZEALAND DIGITAL FESTIVAL Traditional Pacific dances?! This week we are deep diving into a corner of the world never featured before on this podcast! ⁠ ⁠ Meet Leki Jackson-Bourke: a creative/performing artist of Tongan, Niuean and Samoan descent. "It makes me proud knowing that we descend from greatness and seeing our ancestors thrive and live th...

ARTIST: Bianca & Pidjay⁠ COUNTRY: Canada & France 🇨🇦🇫🇷⁠ STYLE: Kizomba & Urban Kiz⁠ FOUNDERS: WOW Kizomba⁠ Can you be as good of a leader as a follower? This week we will deep dive into the minds of leading women in the Kizomba scene, breaking norms and visualizing the future ➡️ Bianca & Pidjay ⁠ ⁠ BUY ME A COFFEE ☕ Loving real talks with dancers? Click here 🥰 🎥 Video interview: ⁠Dance Specific TALKS ⏯️ Listen at: Spotify, Apple Podcast & Google Podcast !⁠ ⁠ Host: @tzerf...

ARTIST: Willow Evann COUNTRY: France 🇫🇷⁠ STYLES: Locking ART: 31project Willow is the french locking-dancer who has competed, judged and danced all over the world. He is a dedicated role-model teaching his students not only the locking foundations but also history, culture and club-world. Willow is also an amazing photographer and today he is doing his own art installations. Time to learn about the real Willow behind the battle-dancer he got known as. Let's plug into those headphones! ⁠ BU...

ARTIST: Fred Maestro COUNTRY: France 🇫🇷⁠ STYLES: Kizomba & Bachata ORGANIZER: Paris Kizomba Congress and many more! MUSIC: Dj Fred Maestro The entrepreneurial organizer who has managed to stay uncover while producing events for more than a decade, meet the one and only FRED MAESTRO. He is not only a dance teacher in Kizomba and Bachata but also a booked DJ for world wide events. Fred is also producing his own music while managing and producing events from China to USA every single year...

ARTIST: Said Dstreet (Mameche) COUNTRY: France 🇫🇷⁠ STYLES: Popping, Kizomba, Urban Kiz⁠ ORGANIZER: The Battle Kizz⁠ CREW: Dstreet Cie⁠ Can a real Battle exist in the Kizomba scene? How is it to go from HipHop dancer to booked Urban Kiz instructor? This week we talk with Said, proudly representing Roubaix and dreaming about bringing something new. ⁠ BUY ME A COFFEE ☕ Loving real talks with dancers? Click here 🥰 🎥 Video interview: ⁠Dance Specific TALKS ⏯️ Listen at: Spotify, Apple Podcast &...

ARTIST: Linda Wardal COUNTRY: Sweden 🇸🇪 STYLES: Contemporary COMPANY: LindaWardal.com How do a contemporary choreographer and dancer think when creating new pieces? Imagine walking on stage without knowing the other dancers or choreography. What can we learn from an artist that has studied contemporary dance and created her own concepts? Time to plug in those headphones and listen to a new episode, this week with Swedish Linda Wardal. ⁠ 🎥 Video interview: ⁠ Dance Specific TALKS ⁠ Loving rea...

ARTIST: Alice Mei STYLES: Swing dancer, Lindy hop, Solo jazz COUNTRY: France From France, Alice Mei is an international instructor who has been spreading the joy of lindy hop and authentic jazz in more than 30 countries through teaching, performing, competing and social dancing. Connecting with a partner through rhythm helps her dance her following and is the most inspiring thing to her at the moment. Alice loves the diversity of movement and the freedom of expression this dance brings to t...

ARTIST: Dajana Jurczak COUNTRY: Poland 🇵🇱 / The Netherlands 🇳🇱 COMPANY & TRIPS: Dajana Dancer Creations Originally from Poland, Dajana has become one of the most engaged Dancehall event organizers in the Netherlands. She has created several group trips for dancers to Jamaica in order to spread the right knowledge about Dancehall culture. In her passion for the style, she is teaching at several dance schools and also facilitating workshops in Amsterdam with some of Jamaica's most respec...

ARTIST: Roché Apinsa⁠ COUNTRY: The Netherlands 🇳🇱 / Maroon 🇸🇷⁠ CREW: Ghetto Funk Collective ⁠ COMPANY: MBS School of Art The international renowned Locker Roché from Ghetto Funk Collective (you have to check their Instagram)! Roché Apinsa has been in the Dutch and international dance scene for more than 14 years. Juste Debout, Spin Off, SDK World Finals, and training and coaching many young people and children, he has earned his stripes as a dancer, choreographer, and trainer/coach. For Ro...

ARTIST: Bev Flowers⁠ COUNTRY: Haiti/The US 🇭🇹🇺🇸⁠ STYLES: Konpa, Kizomba, Semba BUSINESS: BEV FLOWERS DANCE COMPANY⁠ ⁠ Konpa-fusion dancer/choreographer Bev Flowers (Beverlie Fleurinay), is a world-renowned Haitian choreographer and dance instructor based in New York City. She specializes in Konpa dance, a modern meringué dance in Haiti. Bev Flowers has taught and worked alongside prominent artists in the Haitian community such as Alan Cave, Harmonik, 5lan and more! Beverlie’s work emphasizes ...

ARTIST: Sebastian COUNTRY: Sweden / Cape Verde STYLE: Body Isolation COMPANY: Be Fit And Sensual with Passion to Profit Sebastian is a business, strength & mindset coach helping dancers make €3-5k of monthly Online Profit. He has been dancing for more than 13 years and is specialized in body isolation and dance specific training. Sebastian created his company Be Fit And Sensual for more than 7 years ago - the world's largest online training for dancers by dancers. Sebastian was this podc...