Dance Specific TALKS

One year of amazing interviews with incredible dancers around the world! This is the first of many compilations we will do in this podcast. As a start we are looking back on some short stories from Kapela, Sebastian from Be Fit And Sensual, Chamalo, Bukky Ayo, King Charles, Redo, Awa & Gloria, Neguin and Kwesi ! 🎥 Video interview: ⁠ Dance Specific TALKS ⁠ Loving real talks with dancers? Click...

Malcolm aka Mally , grew up with his mother in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. At the age of 12 he a dream came true when he got the chance to move to the USA. Since then he has lived in Zambia, Sweden, and now in the Netherlands. How did this young kid end up as a national TV host, a rapper, Zumba instructor, Hip-hop battler, and Kizomba artist? Time to get to know Mally, the partner/crewmate and fiancé...

Patrick Williams is known as Twoface in the scene and is a dedicated tutting dancer from Germany. Born in München he was first noticed in the Hip-hop scene in Germany using his exceptional techniques in urban styles such as popping, tutting waving, etcetera. Following his ambition as a dancer, he started participating in dance battles. These contests were the start of his international fame not on...

Magda & Valeria is that kind of couple you simply fall in love with! Meet the bachata ladies from Italy/Poland who are crushing gender norms in the couple dancing scene, representing "a genderless art of expression" as they say it. We are super grateful here at Dance Specific TALKS to interview these lovely dancers and hear more about their unique stories! 🎥 Video interview: ⁠ Dance...

River Flows was born in Tanzania, but raised in Norway.  She loved dancing since childhood and started learning through YouTube. Growing up, her inspirations were women who represented courage, strength, passion, and ambition. From the age of 16, she started instructing a group of women in her community, through a charity organization called Gulset Nærmiljøsenter. After that, she worked for Hero S...

"I never would have thought everything was going to play out the way it did".  ARTIST: Jorge aka ATACA COUNTRY: USA 🇺🇸 STYLE: Bachata & Salsa MUSIC ALBUM: It's Bachata Time   A unique interview with the Bachata superstar Ataca from USA! Ataca and La Alemana have been touring the world for the last 13 years, making them one of the biggest name in the scene. In this intimate inter...

"Injuries can come if you do not take care of your environment,  your body, and technique". What are the most common injuries amongst dancers? What patterns can a physiotherapist see in the dance community? How can festivals take better care of dancers during their events? These are some of the questions we are going to ask Dr. Courtney Livingston , the Boston-based physiotherapist dedic...

"You need the routine, power, strength, flexibility, coordination and everything comes together" ARTIST: Elianne Essaijan COUNTRY: The Netherlands 🇳🇱⁠ Masters De Dolfijn   STYLE: Synchronized Swimming⁠ Elianne Essaijan is one of the Netherlands best synchronized swimmer and in this episode, she explains everything about her sport. Starting out as a ballet dancer who loved swimming, Elian...

"It is like a channel to let my out my feelings.. to change my energy from negative to positive. Music is chemistry, a powerful weapon" ARTIST: Indee COUNTRY: Spain 🇪🇸 PROFESSION: Dancing, Rap & Singing Are you ready a dancer and rapper? This next episode is with the one & only ➡ Indee from Spain! Indee is both a dancer and music artist from Spain. She has performed and taught in...

“Find your purpose and your life will be fruitful” ARTIST: Orville Hall COUNTRY: Jamaica 🇯🇲 STYLE: Dancehall COMPANY: Dance Xpressionz Orville Hall aka the Dancehall professor is one of the most known names in dance and Dancehall in Jamaica. He is the artistic director for Theatre Xpressionz, the professional company that operates the popular dance group DANCE XPRESSIONZ and XPRESSIVE MOVES dance...

"Stay humble, don’t think you as a dancer are the best and don’t need training" Selma Mylene comes from Algarve, Portugal but now lives and represents Lisbon! Originally from an Angolan family, Selma found her love from dancing and stuck with it. She started as a dancer in the clubs and is today one of the biggest AfroHouse & Kuduro names from Portugal. Time to plug in those headphon...

"Never underestimate yourself, Never talk bad to yourself" ARTIST: Sinclair GiggaBoy aka Afro-Ninja  COUNTRY: Gabon living in Ghana 🇬🇦🇬🇭 STYLE: Krump, Afro Buck, Salsa, Contemporary  This week's artist is originally from Gabon but lives in Ghana: Sinclair Gigga Boy aka Afro-Ninja. This versatile dancer and his crew Masters ID is striving to perform more and elevate the dance scene i...

"Everything shifts so how are you going to shift according to that?" Marie Poppins is a highly skilled popping dancer from France who made it all the way into America's commercial dance scene. She was the first French dancer to ever enter So You Think You Can Dance and has been dancing for artists like Madonna, Justin Bieber, Ne Yo, Busta Rhymes, and many more. Marie Poppins is also...

"I wish everyone knew about Love" Lamarre Michael aka Niako   is a world-leading Hip-hop dancer from France who lives in Oslo, Norway. He has been winning some of the world's biggest battles and judged Juste Debout and many more competitions. Niako is a very loved teacher and is the founder of the crew Legion X . In this interview, we will also ask him about his passion, setbacks, h...

"We will be dancing and teaching until we are 90" For the more than 7 years of its existence, Kizomba Harmony , based in Houston, Texas, has been dedicated to training the best and most versatile dancers around, with awesome attitudes to match! Billy and Monica have traveled all over the world where they've taught or performed in 15 countries (and counting). In addition, they placed...

"Whatever it is you want to do in life, hold on to it like it’s yours"  Mr Youtube is one of the biggest Litefeet dancers in the world and has since years back taught, performed, and organized events. In this episode, you will get the chance to learn from the source and hear how the style of Litefeet appeared and how Mr Youtube himself has navigated through his dance life journey.  Tune...

"#Jantelagen it's an unwritten law which says you must not stand out and think that you are better than others in any way. In BALLROOM YOU WALK ALL OVER THAT" JacQueline N Sahlin aka Queline Miss Long Legs is a Swedish dancehall dancer and founder of Enough Dance Crew. She became Sweden's official dancehall queen in 2014 and has won the international Runway category at Streetst...

"We love each other regardless of how we look and where we come from, that is the message we want to push".   Check out Emilie Brooklyn & Xavier "X" Days and subscribe to their channel Brooklyn Days ! Emilie Brooklyn is a Danish dancer who started battling early and after many trips to NYC fell in love with the style Litefeet. Xavier "X" Days grew up in NYC and ha...

"We want to inspire people who have never danced to believe in themselves" Nathan and Nancy met through their love of dance. Nathan is from the Philippines and Nancy is from Indonesia but today they both live in Jakarta where they teach Kizomba Fusion. Their dance journies are different from each other but when they got asked to perform together for the first time a new chapter opened up...

"The worst thing you can do, is to not do something that you want to do" Laurent Yìshù is one of the most world-known teachers within the kizomba scene. He is the founder of the inspiring Show Your Style Concept and the biggest kizomba competition called Olympiads of Kizomba . He has created his own company, Online Kizomba School , where he is providing 200+ kizomba tutorials and masterc...

"One of my biggest goals is to reach the heart of as many people as possible" Evee Smile is a French dancer who fell in love with dance at a young age. She later moved to Denmark for her studies, not knowing that she opened up a new chapter of her dance career. She has since then been running one of Europe's most profound Hip-hop dance educations and is today the manager of Flow Cre...

"It is the toughest, the most reliable, sensitive, hardworking people that burn out" André Grekhov, who is known as Drosha , was born and raised in Russia where he first found his love for the hip-hop culture. When he moved to the Netherlands in his teenage years, the journey as a b-boy took off and he has since then dived into researching, learning, and creating within several styles. H...

"There is not only one way to be, there is not only one way to dance" Macarena Paton is one of the Kizomba world's biggest names. With her own lady styling classes, women empowerment concept, and her own clothing brand this woman is not sitting still. During this pandemic, Macarena has already been organizing 12 online events, giving dancers globally a chance to train at home. In th...

"I had to hit rock bottom first mentally to come back up and say: No way, I got to keep going!" BB Bad is born and raised in Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.  Her love for dancing brought her to New York City where she started her commercial dance career. Through ups and downs, Bianca has managed to maneuver in an industry of dance, much different from the environment she grew up in. Today...

"I really like to  somebody who promotes new messages into the scene" Tarah-Stephanie is the founder of UrKiz , a kizomba team representing Montreal in Canada. When Tarah-Stephanie found dancing she grew from a shy teenager to a strong team leader.   She has competed  in Olympiads of Kizomba, organized her own festival in Montreal, and hosted her  own TREX PARTY on Instagram. Plug your h...