Instructors
Marina Motronenko
At the age of 7 Marina Motronenko started doing calisthenics. When she was 8 years old, she began ballroom dancing for the next eight years where she reached a highly advance level and wanted to expand her dance interests. She than began jazz and classic choreography while performing in two dance teams at the same time for five years. After dancing many styles of dances, she than returned back to ballroom dances in 2008 where she primarily focused on Hustle and WCS . Marina is prizewinner of many international competitions and top WCS dancers in Russia where she is teaching and helping her community grow. She is known for her charismatic personality and using her different dance experiences to help her students learn.
Xi Dünnhoff
Xi is the first German WCS All-Star Leader. He started his career as a dancer in Ballroom/Latin dancing, where he competed in Latin competitions for 10 years. Focusing more on social dances as Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba, finally lead him to West Coast Swing. He is now leading the tanzraum Dance schools in Cologne and travels around the world as a WCS Competitor and Teacher.
Verena Guschal
Verena is a full time yoga and dance teacher who travelled the world to learn about bodywork, movement and body mechanics. She is experienced in Jazz, Ballett, Modern, Contact Improvisation and various Swing dances but she has also a background in performing arts and Anatomy.
Thomas Bachmann
Thomas is a swing dance studio owner based in Augsburg, Germany. He has trained at the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich for several years but his passion is swing dancing, including Lindy Hop, Balboa, Vintage Jazz and especially West Coast Swing. Besides swing he is fascinated by psychology and he is a trained hypnosis coach so you better not get sleepy during his classes ;)
