Thanh Thanh Nguyen
Stumbling upon Lindy Hop in 2016, Thanh Thanh has since embarked on an incredible journey brewing her passion for the dance into her life compass. Her love for body movements and funky grooves has grown and rooted deeper with the rich sound and stories of jazz shared in Saigon Swing Cats, her home scene in Vietnam.
Since relocating to Europe 2021, Thanh Thanh has continued to hone her dance craft and broadened her perspective on the dance contemporary culture. She is now happily based in Paris, ready to share her dance wherever the sound of hot rhythms takes her.
In her classes, she often encourages everyone to explore their own movements through self-awareness and improvisation while honoring the root of authentic African American Jazz dance.
Thanh Thanh is also an old friend of WCJ, she lived in Gothenburg for a year before moving to Paris.
Thanh Thanh will teach Authentic Jazz to all levels at AJW 2025.
Fanta Yayo
Fanta Yayo originally comes from Guinea and is a Griot. She has been dancing since before she could walk and is the leading dancer in Guinea.
Fanta is known worldwide and has danced with many maestro DjembeFola, including the great father of the djembe, Mamady Keita.
Fanta is also a versatile singer and artist and has just released her album, MAMMA.
For many years, Fanta has lived in Stockholm and offers regular classes there as well as in many other places across Europe.
Fanta has extensive teaching experience, is a fantastic instructor, and teaches with exceptional quality.
Fanta will teach West African dance to all levels at AJW 2025.
Ana Strandberg
Ana Strandberg is a freelance dance artist, choreographer, dance educator and organizer with a focus in the sphere of House dance, Hip Hop dance, Popping and Improvisation. She is based in Stockholm, and originally from Värmland where she also works with her art & culture collective DAGRA Collective. Ana has danced for 25+ years, is educated at the Stockholm Academy of Dance and via traveling, and dreams of a friendly world.
During the camp you will meet Ana in House dance, where we focus on music and movement based on foundation, improvisation and us in the moment.
Bring shoes and a water bottle and we’ll meet in warmth!
Ana will teach House to all levels at AJW 2025.
Emma Olofsson
“I found boogie woogie 8 years ago and fell instantly in love with the playfulness and intensity of the dance. These are also elements I try to incorporate when teaching – I want people taking classes for me to leave the class with a smile!
Killer boogie is a solo boogie routine that also emphasise intensity and playfulness. Created by the multiple world champion in boogie woogie Marcus Koch, Killer boogie has become a major success and is a routine danced at boogie events all around. The routine will challenge both your physique and your mind, and I can’t wait to share the routine with you!”
Emma will teach Killer Boogie to Level A, B and C at AJW 2025.
Therese Lundblad
Therese has danced since the age of 5, working her way through multiple styles. During the past decade, she has been diving deeper into authentic/vernacular jazz, lindy hop, and tap dance.
Therese likes bringing out the playfulness, creativity, and freedom from a stable foundation in the dances she practices. She values how movements connect dancers to the music and each other, as well as exploring the relationship between individual expression and coming together as a community.
Therese will teach Authentic Jazz to Level A and B at AJW 2025.
Elisabetta Perotti
Elisabetta discovered Lindy Hop and Authentic Jazz in 2012 in Uppsala, Sweden, where she learned and started teaching at Swingkatten. From the beginning, Elisabetta was captured by the rawness and authenticity of the movements that distinguish these African American dances, as well as the large room for improvisation to music and the emphasis on developing an individual style, while having strong rhythms and a solid beat. These elements have been the main focus of her training, and therefore also of her classes.
During the past two years, Elisabetta has been dancing in Boulder/Denver, were she has had the opportunity to teach, choreograph and perform with local dancers, expanding her dance vocabulary and exchanging teaching perspectives and values with different teaching bodies.
Elisabetta will teach Authentic Jazz to Level A, B and C at AJW 2025. And she is soon moving to Gothenburg and is eager to meet new local dance friends! Come and ask her to dance!
Duncan Stuart
Duncan dabbled in a couple of other partner dances in the 2000s, but he discovered the Swing dance community in London in 2009 and never looked back.
After 9 years of live music and social dance in London and across Europe he moved to Gothenburg in 2018 and has been teaching Lindy Hop and Authentic Jazz here since 2021.
His interest in Authentic Jazz has always been as a social dance; more interested in improvisation and trading ideas than polishing choreography. Amongst others, he draws inspiration from the relaxed and compact style of Leon James.
Duncan will teach Authentic Jazz to Level B and C at AJW 2025.
Hanna Linn
Hanna experienced love at first sight when she went to a Taster and Social Dance in Lindy Hop on a cold January night in Stockholm in 2014. She has also studied classical jazz and ballet and believes that a strong foundation makes for fun dancing, but the movement starts from the music. Hanna aims to teach in a way that will make everyone swing, sweat, and smile.
Hanna thinks the most magical aspects of swing dancing are the creativity, space for expression, amazing music, and all the fantastic swing communities she has visited worldwide and the wonderful people she has met through dancing.
Hanna will teach Authentic Jazz to Level C at AJW 2025.