V Moscow Swing Dance Camp will take place from January,6 to January,9 2005 in a small resort complex in Moscow suburbs. The program of the camp includes workshops (boogie woogie and lindy hop), bonus lessons, parties, contests and many Christmas surprises.
The program of the camp
January,6 – arrival to the resort
January,7 – arrival to the resort, workshops, Christmas Masquerade party
January,8 – workshops, bonus lessons, party, Jack'n'Jill contest
January,9 – workshops, closing the camp, departure from the resort
Registration for the Christmas Swing Dance camp is closed. The participants list may be viewed here.
Melanie Stocker-Bucher & Daniel Peterhans (Switzerland)
Melanie Stocker-Bucher has a great number of awards in boogie-woogie: five times she won Championship of Switzerland, four times - European Championship and three times - World Championship (both main class and formation). She is one of the most famous European boogie teachers. She has taught in many dance camps through out the world including Herrang Dance Camp.
Among Melanie's students there are such famous dancers as Aina Nygaard and Jörgen B. Sandnes (World Champions 2004), Deborah Varisco and Vincenzo Fesi and many others. You may find Melanie's biography in "Publications" section at our site.
Daniel Peterhans was in the same formation team as Melanie. Several times their team has won European and World Cups and Championships. Daniel was among those few people who first started to dance and teach boogie woogie and rock'n'roll in Switzerland. And now he still continues to teach boogie. Also Daniel has a qualification of international WRRC judge.
Vladimir Ishimov
Vladimir was the finalist of the first competition in rock'n'roll in USSR. Since this time rock'n'roll has become his passion. He missed no competition. Several times he was winner or finalist in category "B" of such competitions as Moscow Championship, USSR Championship, different national cups and then - Russian Championship.
First time he has seen swing dancing in 1993 and started to learn how to dance boogie. He was one of the dancers who were first to perform boogie show in Russia. It was in 1994. Those people were: Tarasov - Kosmynina, Gavrikov - Sokolova and Ishimov - Shestopalova.
When his carier in rock acro was over he has become a trainer. And continued to compete in boogie woogie. He was one of the first of Russian dancers who took part in international competitions. Together with his partner Ryzhova Nadezhda he has won the 2nd place in a contest in Helsinki, Finland. Together with Ksenia Semenikhina he was the winner of many national cups and Russian Championship 2002. During all that he has been activly promoting swing dancing in Russia. Besides contetst and competitions he performed at different contests and TV-shows.
Vladimir Ishimov and Ksenia Semenikhina were first in Russia to teach improvisation in swing dancing. They have learned the methods of world famous teacher Marcus Koch and adopted it for Russian situation.
Vladimir Ishimov took part in many international dance camps and workshops. Among his teachers were Lennart Westerlund, Franky Manning, Peter Loggins, Janise Wilson, Marcus Koch & Barbl Kaufer, Michael Grimme & Andrea Shiffer, Melanie Bucher & others.
Besides boogie woogie Vladimir dances and teaches other swing dances like lindy hop, charlestone, balboa, shag, etc.
Lindy Hop
Harlem Hot Shots*)
This legendary show from Sweden probably needs no presentation. They were first to inspire and start the swing revival in Europe. This show headed by Lennart Westerlund is famous not only for dance performances but also for the organization of Herang Dance Camp – the largest swing dance camp in Europe.
The dancers from Harlem Hot Shots are frequently invited guests of different dance events in Europe as well as in America.
*) the names of the dancers from HHS who are going to teach in our camp will be announced later
Katya Avlasevitch
Katya started her dancing career from rock'n'roll in 1991. In 2001 in Tallinn (Estonia) she has first seen Lennart Westerlund and turned her mind to swing dancing. After that she started to travel all over the world visiting different places where swing was taught. That were: Herrang Dance Camp every year since 2001 (Sweden), Barswingona in 2002 and 2004 (Spain), Montpellier in 2003 (France), Boogie and Swing in Toulouse in 2003 and 2004 (France), Catalina in 2003 (California, USA), SeaSunSwing in 2004 (France), Cultural Exchange (Los-Angeles, USA)
Since 2003 Katya is being invited at the camps already as a teacher. Her partners were Max Pitruccella (France), Tomas Blachar (France) and Vincenzo Fesi (Italy). In IV Moscow Dance Camp in June Katya tought together with Vincenzo.
Katya and Vinzenzo took the second place in European Championship in Lindy Hop 2004. None of Russian swing dancers ever had such a good result. At the Open Championship Strictly Lindy 2004 they were also the second. At World Championship in Lindy Hop 2004 (Toulouse, France) their result was the forth.
Katya is an almost universal teacher. She teaches boogie-woogie, lindy hop (Savoy original style, smooth and Hollywood styles), lindy hip hop, balboa, shag, charleston and west cost swing. Also she teaches in College of Arts and Crafts (the chair of choreography) and in College of Physical Culture (The chair of physiotherapy, the department of choreography) in Saint Petersburg. Also she has joint project together with jazz-modern dance studio "Canon Dance".
Ksenia Semenikhina
When being a high school student Ksenia once saw on TV a competition in rock’n’roll. She liked the acrobatics and decided to try this kind of dancing some day. She managed to do this in a year when she came to Moscow dance studio “B17”. She was training there for several years and changed two dance partners. Also at this time she was much interested in hustle. And in 1994 she has won the title of “Miss Hustle” at the contest organized by dance school “Dance College”. That was the first but not the last of her victories.
First she started to dance boogie in dance studio “Tutti-Frutti”. In 1997 she came to “Tantsclass”. Next year Vladimir Ishimov became her dance partner.
Now Ksenia has a great number of students. Many of them are real fans of swing dancing who visit swing dance camps all over the world and take part in competitions. And some of them already teach boogie and lindy themselves.
Fedor Nedotko
That is what Fedor telling about himself: "I am Nedotko Fedor. I love social dancing (almost all styles of it). I think it is the only way of dancing that suits for using dance potential of a human being. I think that couple dancing is an illustration of relationships between man and woman and that is why it is the most natural and the most interesting way to dance. But certainly it does not exclude the need of individual training. For me jazz is not only abstract music but it is special "dancing mood" that takes me to the condition of slight emotional raise. Couple dancing + jazz = SWING DANCE.
I am not an adherent of any special style of swing dancing. For me the only important things in dancing are: music, comfort, freedom and partnership. I am sure that swing is the most actual style of social dancing.
In the words "Afro-American dance culture" the prefix "afro" also has a large meaning for me. 14-years experience of standard ballroom dancing as well as the classes of world famous teachers, gave me a good knowledge and understanding of dance mechanics. I teach myself since 1994, particularly lindy classes - since 2000. Now I started to run my own business in my own dance club in Saint Petersburg. I have many students and some of the make me feel proud.
Accomodation and Food
The camp will take place in one of the health resorts in Moscow suburbs. The cost of the food (three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner) is included in the price of the participation. There going to be a bus transfer from Moscow to the place of the camp at the first day and back at the last day of the camp.
Prices
The price of participation in the camp for foreign guests is 100 Euro.
Organizers
Christmas Swing Dance Camp is organized by Moscow Swing Dance Federation and dance studio “Tantsklass” headed by Vladimir Ishimov. For additional information about the camp please contact us at the e-mail:camp@swingdance.ru.
Melanie Stocker-Bucher has a great number of awards in boogie-woogie: five times she won Championship of Switzerland, four times - European Championship and three times - World Championship (both main class and formation). She is one of the most famous European boogie teachers. She has taught in many dance camps through out the world including