Dr. Marie N’diaye (PhD) is a Lindy Hop and African American Jazz dance choreographer, performer and educator as well as a dance researcher.

Marie has been dancing almost as long as she has been walking, training mostly in modern Jazz. She fell in love with Lindy Hop and other Jazz dances in 2006.

Laurel fell in love with swing music nearly three decades before she threw herself into the dance. Soon after her first lindy hop crash course Laurel was attending every event she could reach across the Midwest, itching for another dance to a live band. Laurel’s background as a classroom teacher and world traveler serves to fuel her passion for learning and teaching swing dance. Laurel strives to help preserve lindy hop’s roots as a social street dance while re-translating partner roles for continued relevance in modern culture.

Samuel Coleman is a multi-disciplinary teaching/performing artist who has taught and facilitated for many prestigious institutions including: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazzmobile, The Ailey School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Hunter College, Harlem One Stop, Minton’s Playhouse, Boys and Girls Club of Harlem, Ginny’s Supper Club, Swing 46, Harlem Stage, The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art &

Dancing in all forms has been a lifelong passion for Irina (she/her). In 2009, at the age of 15, she stumbled upon Swing dancing and it took only one night of social dancing for her to fall head over heels in love with it. Though Lindy Hop was her gateway into the world of Swing, Irina’s passion quickly expanded to include Balboa, Collegiate Shag, and solo jazz. She owes her rapid progression in part to spending her formative years of dancing in Southern California, home to some of the best Swing dancers, teachers, and music in the world.

Anthony’s first ingress into the performing arts was at age 8 when his parents convinced him to learn and perform Chinese lion dances. He then stumbled upon breakdancing during a national speech and debate tournament in middle school, and at the age of 16, he had his first foray into swing dancing alongside other young interns from a research laboratory. Since then, he has trained in other dance styles ranging from hip-hop to West Coast Swing, but most of all he enjoys using this background to expand upon his technique and creativity in Lindy Hop.