Teachers

Their classes are allways exhausting in a very nice way (so bring your towels) and both of them have excellent contact with their students, freely give individual tips and solve every Gordian knot from head to toe.

Take a look at their homepage http://www.tickletoe.ch/.

Aurore - discovered the dance scene and particularly the swing after meeting Andy. Keen of sports and physical activities in general, she sees dance as a fun way to express herself but also to have a better body controle. Her dance training is based on the feeling, the “matching” with her partner, the “lead and follow” and of course the understanding of the body language.

Andy - Passionate about music and jazz culture, Andy started to dance by chance at the age of 18. Very quickly, dance will become the center of his life and he will decide to travel the world to learn more about the swing dances and the cultures related. Andy began to teach at the age of 20 and was quickly called in prestigious international swing festivals to teach and to perform shows.

Nowadays he lives from his passion and still travel around the world to pass on his knowledge. By his dance style, his knowledge assets and his natural gift for improvisation, Andy is now a relatively influential dancer on the swing world stage. He has been working with many dancers, choregraphers and musicians from around the world but also as a choregrapher himself for shows, musicals, commercials, TV shows and short movies.His past as an athlete, a martial arts competitor for many years, a physical education and sports trainer greatly influenced his dancing and teaching.Andy’s vision of dance is largely based on natural reactions of the body to optimize its use in the movement and the energy created withing the couple.

His unique and very personal style comes from the inspiration he draws from dancers as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire but also from different sources as certain aspects of street dance.

Personal website: www.easy-swing.be

Tim and Malou have traveled across the US, Europe and Asia. They have choreographed for music videos, Bollywood films and TV commercials.

Raised on the wild dance floors of Seattle since he was a young lad, Tim has been glued to the lindy hop dance for most of his life. Between obsessively training his swing out collecting movie clips, researching Swing music, and getting on a plane to the next swing festival, Tim had little time to learn German. Which is why he loves it when his dance students come up and teach him a German joke.

Malou is a trained contemporary & jazz dancer and choreographer from Zurich's Dance Theater school. She began Lindy Hop in 2003, after seeing Frankie in Hellzapoppin'. Her main teachers are the Rhythm & Harlem Hot Shots and Angela Andrew from which she has learnt to throw herself fully into each dance. She would teach Tim a German joke but Malou is not funny. She is NOT funny. Really!

Tim & Malou have been dancing Lindy since 1997 and 2003. They began teaching together in 2005. Since 2008 they spend half of the year in Europe working as Lindy Hop teachers & dancers, the other half they live in Mumbai, India, home of Bollywood.

Their classes are full of good energy, humor, and lots of lindy hop.

Check them out at: http://www.timandmalou.com/.