Elise is a dancer and dance teacher, passionate about African-American dances and their origins: Blues, Lindy Hop, Solo Jazz.
With about thirty years of experience in a range of genres, including modern Jazz, Funk, R&B, Afro-Urban, Salsa, Swing, Blues, theater, and singing, her artistic and dance path is marked by diversity.
Formerly a member of an improvised dance troupe, a feminist jazz cabaret, and a musical, Elise has performed many times both on stage and in the street since a young age. However, her main and love focus is Improvisation and she does her best to share that aspect in dance class.
Elise is now based in Lyon, France, but she worked for a long time as a Lindy Hop and Blues dance teacher in Paris between 2015 and 2020, and then in Tours, where she founded her own local Blues association to honor the culture of Blues music, its history, and to place the notion of well-being at the heart of pedagogy.
During these years, Elise has contributed as much as she could to the development of Blues music, dances and values in France; by conducting extensive research about the socio-cultural contexts of Black American dances, by keeping learning from gorgeous artists, by creating a partnership with musicians, by co-organizing events in Paris, Tours and soon in Lyon.
Some recent workshops where Elise has taught : Hully Blues Festival (Hamburg DE), Blues Crush (Tours FR), Rainy Blues (Paris FR), Swing it Berlin (Berlin DE), Step in Blues and Mini Gre (Grenoble, FR), Blues Shot (Lausanne, CHE), Blues Fuse (Utrecht NL)...
Miguel has been teaching Blues in Spain, in Barcelona, since
2015. He is completely passionate about this dance and the style
of music. He teaches courses throughout Spain but also
France and abroad, South Korea, Greece and Africa
South, when he travels.
Since 2016, he has been organizing the Cocoa Blues & Fusion Exchange
Barcelona, a great festival of blues dances that brings together dancers
and dancers from all over Europe. Miguel is also a DJ in many
festivals. He likes to investigate and delve into the Blues Aesthetics and
the Blues Idiom Dances as a cornerstone of his classes.
