PATRICK from Stockholm: Since falling in love with Swing in the mid 2000s, Patrick has rummaged through pretty much every corner of the world for dance. Today Patrick lives in Stockholm and teaches mainly Balboa. Although competing and performing is a part of his dance persona, the social floor is his definite home turf. Lately, dancing, teaching and organizing events, now and again, have been augmented with quite some DJ-ing.

ELISABETH from Munich: The dance devil caught Elisabeth already in very early years. Shortly after beginning Lindy Hop she stumbled upon and absolutely fell in love with – Balboa! She has obtained her knowledge of Balboa and its qualities in many international workshops and mainly through long nights on the social floor. Today, and for several years, Elisabeth teaches weekly Balboa classes in her hometown, Munich, at Vintage Club. As always motivated DJane, she frequently attends to play and inspire at many international dance events.

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Slow Balboa is a general term used for dancing in styles inspired by the original Balboa swing dancers from California who liked to dance to slow music. Modern Slow Balboa is heavily influenced by three specific historic dancers. The first two are Dean and Nancy Raftery, two original Los Angeles swing dancers who developed a specific style of slow dancing that Dean taught in the swing dance community in the mid-2000s. The third is Ray Cunningham, also a Los Angeles dancer who was highly regarded for his skill at Laminu, a form of slow dancing that was popular in Los Angeles in the 1940s through the 1950s. Slow Balboa works to a wide range of slow dance music, but it works especially well to slow swinging jazz and slow ballads.

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