SwinginBiel

Lindy Hop entstand als erster Jazztanz im Amerika der 30er Jahre zu den swingenden Rhythmen der BigBands. Der dynamische Paartanz verbindet Improvisation, erdige Grooves und subtile Kommunikation. Dazu immer eine Prise Humor. 

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Neben Lindy Hop widmen wir uns auch anderen Swingtänzen wie Collegiate Shag und Balboa.

Florian "Flo" Zbinden

Music has always been a central topic in Florian’s life. Born into a very musical family he learned the saxophone and sang in different choirs. When his fifth-grade teacher brought up dancing to swing music in physical education for some weeks he was hooked. At the time they had no name for it, so it took another seven years until Florian found out what Lindy Hop really was. A good friend he met in the high school choir turned out to be a local Lindy Hop instructor. Already in love with jazz he got sucked in by the swing dances. Learning big parts of the dance by back leading, he loves to give his follower space and join them on a dance adventure.
Currently he is mostly teaching local classes with Viviane Fahrni. But you also see him teaching and competing around Europe with Viviane Fahrni and Earanee Niedzwicki.

Viviane "Vivi" Fahrni

I began to dance Lindy hop in 2007 but I really got started with swingdancing five years later at Herräng Dance Camp 2012 where I first tried Boogie Woogie and Balboa. Since 2013 I’ve been teaching Lindy hop in Biel, Switzerland. I started to dance and teach Collegiate Shag in 2014 and have been part of Stephen & Chanzie’s Euro Shag Team performance at Rock that Swing Festival in Munich in spring 2015. Thereafter I had the great opportunity to travel to Los Angeles for five weeks and be tutored by Stephen, practicing and teaching his local classes with him. We taught workshops together in a handful of events in Europe. Nowadays I’m mostly teaching local classes with my dancepartners Roman Wyler and Florian Zbinden in Biel and Bern.

Roman Wyler

Spontanität, eine präzise Führung und Musikalität, das ist mir wichtig beim Tanzen. Bei Lindy Hop, Balboa und Shag lässt sich dies mit erdigen Grooves und einer Prise Humor verbinden –  eine Mischung die es mir angetan hat.

Aber nach all den Anfängerkursen noch immer mit ganzem Elan dabei? Ja. Denn beim Tanzen zu zweit und ebenso beim Unterrichten eröffnen sich immer wieder neue Welten – immer wieder steh ich ganz am Anfang. Diese ständige Weiterentwicklung bei mir und bei andern zu erleben, das macht glücklich!

David Corrêa

David literally fell in love with Lindy Hop in September 2018. Since then, his motivation to learn, dance and practice is in constant growth.
Il apporte de nouvelles idées et crée des événements swing pour la scène biennoise et sa région. Il s'occupe notamment des entraînements du mercredi (Practice sessions) et des soirées Biel in Hop.

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