dance talks

ARTIST: Sandra Gutiérrez
COUNTRY: Spain 🇪🇸⁠
STYLE: Body Isolation / Kizomba Fusion

😱 Who is this RED FLAME 🔥?! Like a tornado blowing up the Kiz scene, 2022 Winner of Olympiads of Kizomba Solo Styling - This body isolation dancer teaches us the power of finding our own unique style, staying humble, and sharing with the world!
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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

ARTIST: DJ Ichigo
COUNTRY: France
MUSIC: Soundcloud
FESTIVAL: Wakanda 
WINNER: Global Tarraxo
AGENCY: Monama Agency

Where did Ichigo come from? In which way did he get his name? Who is the Wakanda team? Time to plug in those head phones as we are talking with DJ, Dancer, Producer and Organizer: ICHIGO from Paris, France!


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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

ARTIST: Talia Bailes
COUNTRY: USA
COMPANY: Ballet & Books
MISSION: Striving to reduce the literacy gap through the hybrid storytelling of dance and reading.
BOOK: “When We Read”


Talia is a lifelong dancer, current medical student at the University of Michigan, and Founder and Executive Director of Ballet and Books.


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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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!
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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!
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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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 AND MUSIC. SHE STARTED DANCING AT THE AGE OF 6, LEARNING THE CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE, BHARATA NATYAM, FROM MRS.PADMINI VASAN, FOUNDER OF THE PADMALAYA SCHOOL OF DANCE. SHE STARTED TO STUDY OTHER STYLES  OF DANCE: HOUSE, LOCKING, WAACKING, POPPINIG, HIP HOP, VOGUE, CHICAGO FOOTWORK, ANYTHING FUNKY AND FREE, GROUNDED WITH SOUL. SHE ALSO IS LEARNING AREAL ARTS AND CAPOEIRA.

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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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 😱

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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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 ⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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!
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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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. As the 10th year of the Paris Kizomba Congress is approaching we got an exclusive interview to learn some wisdom from Fred himself! 
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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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.
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Host: @tzerfuse⁠
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Intro & Outro music: @djcombat

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.
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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 the world. Her hope is to keep learning things and keep on inspiring people for as long as possible. (Info from Retro Weekend). 

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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 respected teachers.
 
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ARTIST: Bev Flowers⁠
COUNTRY: Haiti/The US 🇭🇹🇺🇸⁠
STYLES: Konpa, Kizomba, Semba
BUSINESS: BEV FLOWERS DANCE COMPANY⁠
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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 passion & creativity that allows her students to experience becoming one with music and the movement. Bev has fully committed herself to build her dance empire and travel (Bio: Bev Flowers Youtube).

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ARTIST: Gianinni Semedo Moreira
COUNTRY: Netherlands / USA

Gianinni Semedo Moreira is a writer-director based in Los Angeles, CA. He was born and raised in The Netherlands and started his career in entertainment as a professional dancer. After a successful career there, Gianinni moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21, to further pursue his career. He has worked with various major artists like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Shakira and toured the world with Cirque Du Soleil. Gianinni discovered his love for filmmaking and storytelling while traveling the world with these artists. (IMDb Mini Biography By: Gloria Bottse)

Website: Gianinni.com

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ARTIST: Benedikte Esperi
COUNTRY: Sweden  🇸🇪
WEBSITE: BenedikteEsperi.com

Benedikte Esperi is an independent performance artist, choreographer, filmmaker, researcher, producer, and curator based in Sweden. Her atelier/workshop is currently at VULKANO and Finnekumla Dance & Art space. She is published in a variety of venues, such as public sites, galleries, theatres, festivals, and elsewhere, both in local and international contexts. The encounter with sites, intentions, and people nurture her choices and actions where the body is both an object and a subject, mediating current topics. Her works range from solo, co-productions, and community art within the genres performance/live art, installations, dance for screen, and choreography. Artistically she´s often referred to post-modern dance and avantgarde aesthetics. (BenedikteEsperi.com)

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In the quiet period of Dance Specific Talks, we have been cooking up something special!

The host T-zer got invited to help Korzo, the theater in Den Haag, the Netherlands to start their own podcast: Sounds from the Cypher. You will hear T-zer host together with the amazing Sachi as they interview local artists about their work, passion, and lifestyle - all episodes in English!

The third episode is a very interesting talk about the styles Waacking & Vogue! We talk with the dancers, theater makers, and organizers Sarada Sarita and Shahin Damka - check it out now on Sounds from the Cypher. 

Stay tuned for more!

In the quiet period of Dance Specific Talks, we have been cooking up something special!

The host T-zer got invited to help Korzo, the theater in Den Haag, the Netherlands to start their own podcast: Sounds from the Cypher. You will hear T-zer host together with the amazing Sachi as they interview local artists about their work, passion, and lifestyle - all episodes in English!

In the second we have a deep talk with Rotterdam's legendary Lloyd Marengo and Popping slayer Hassani Le Couvreur about the style Popping and their life journies - check it out now on Sounds from the Cypher. 

Stay tuned for more!

In the quiet period of Dance Specific Talks, we have been cooking up something special!

The host T-zer got invited to help Korzo, the theater in Den Haag, the Netherlands to start their own podcast: Sounds from the Cypher. You will hear T-zer host together with the amazing Sachi as they interview local artists about their work, passion, and lifestyle - all episodes in English!

The first episode is a very interesting conversation about the term "Urban"! We talk with the dancers and organizers Leal van Herwaarden and Sheree Lenting - check it out now on Sounds from the Cypher. 

Stay tuned for more!