This was an extra special and fun weekend for us…  First of all, it’s been awhile since I (Torri) have been in an English speaking country…  So it was nice to be able to talk to everyone and catch up!  We both loved teaching alongside a top-notch staff: Kyle & Sarah and Maxence & Virginie!  The show on Saturday night was one of the best Lead & Follow nights we have been a part of in awhile… Each couple was truly an inspiration in their own way and we were so honored to be a part of it!!

Lee & Fab did a wonderful job with the organization and making sure we were taken care of at all times!  They decided to have levels on the classes with auditions, and we think it really worked…  It made all the classes completely different and easy to mold the classes to each level’s wants and needs! 🙂  Great job guys on the organization of the workshops! We really loved it!

The incredible Emeline was our main DJ of the weekend…. Taking care of almost every competition and absolutely rocking it!!  Her late night music is equally as great and we really enjoyed her music all weekend!  This was the first time I had experienced Sarah being a chief judge, and she was awesome (as expected!)  Not only did she organize the competitions and make sure they ran smoothly, she also organized the whole event to get on the floor and do the hot new dance you have probably heard of to “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” !!!!

SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!

We really loved everything about MSO…. Especially the Stella Cidre 😉

We will see you again soon England!!!!  Thanks for a memorable weekend!!! 😉

-Maxime and Torri 🙂

We are back to Lyon after a great weekend in Poitiers!  We were with our good friends Olivier, Virginie (& soon to be baby), Arnaud and Maelle! 🙂 This event brought a lot of people from all over France together… We saw a lot of familiar faces, but also a lot of new ones!  For me (Torri), it has been 5 years since I last attended this event…..and it was just as fun as I remembered.  Saturday was especially fun with its theme….. Chic with a little Choc!!  Everyone participated and it made for a fun competition atmosphere for the JnJ’s.  Even all of the staff dressed up… 😉

For the workshops….. we had such a great time with each level!! Thanks for working so hard… but also having a fun time laughing with us too 😉 I’m understanding more and more French with every class…. so thank you to everyone who was nice with me and didn’t laugh when I would try some words in French!! 😉 hahaha

We will hopefully try to get a video of our demo from Saturday night, if anyone has it please let us know!! 😉

Thanks for a great weekend everyone!! Hope to see you all very soon!!!! 😉

This was a really quick weekend for us!  Took a train to Paris early Saturday morning, and back in Lyon Sunday night.  Quick, but wonderful!!  We felt that we had a great amount of time with each of the levels, and really had the chance to get serious and break down a lot of key elements of this dance!  My favorite part of the weekend was definitely the “Lady Touch” styling class!!!  The girls were all quick learners and picked up the movements very easily.  It was fun for me to create the little combination for the class, and I hope all the ladies had fun doing the combination with me!!

The party on Saturday night was fun for us to be able to dance with a lot of the people from the classes, and also people who just came out to hang at the dance… We did a casual little impro for the people at the party… to one of our favorite songs “Regular Girl” by T-Pain……

Thanks Paris for a great weekend!!!! See you in January for our weekly Thursday sessions 😉

This was such a great experience!!!  We both had never been a part of a flashmob before…. and it was so amazing to see how many people came out to participate!!  The routine was choreographed by our good friends Olivier and Virginie Massart to the song “Want To Want Me” by Jason DeRulo.  The choreography was released at the French Open last year….and people all around the world learned it and organized their own flashmobs in their city.  Last year, there were over 3,000 dancers in 78 cities throughout 23 countries!!!  The count is still happening from yesterday’s flashmob, but it seems like more people were involved this year!!  This is all such a wonderful way to spread our dance and bring more people into this awesome community!

In Lyon, the routine was done in two different parts of downtown.  Both had a lot of dancers in attendance, but the second was an amazing venue and some great pictures were taken to show just how many people were there!

And here is a video from the first one we did 🙂

After all the flashmob fun, we taught two workshops and had a party and Perga’s Dance School.  We had a lot of fun with all the local dancers in Lyon!  It was a nice way to end the summer and kickoff the new season of dancing with good friends!!  Can’t wait to do it again with everyone 😉

WOW!!!  What to say about this event???  From the moment we arrived in Sao Paulo, we felt the love from everyone!

We were lucky enough to have some free time on this trip, and got to explore Sao Paulo with our good friends PJ and Tashina, as well as our tour guides Jessica, Vanessa and Gabi. 😉  What a fun and relaxing day….even though it was raining!  After our day off, we all went to the amazing Zouk club called Carioca!  What an experience!!  Maxime and I have never really officially learned how to do Zouk…but we can pretend!!  We had an awesome time going between dancing Zouk and West Coast Swing with all our new Brazilian friends!

The next day was the start of the event….and we were so excited to be a part of the first professional courses, along with John and Jessica, offered with the intention of helping the instructors of Brazil learn how we approach teaching and handling classes!  Everyone was so engaged and so receptive to all we had to share 🙂  We really loved the atmosphere of the classes and hope we can be involved in the same sort of thing next year to help continue the growth here!

The rest of the weekend all ran very smoothly….thanks to everyone involved with making the event happen!

We had a couple more workshops, judged some divisions, danced a social demo in the professional show, but our favorite part was dancing the night away with everyone!!  Brazil has so many amazing and talented dancers, it made the night slip away from us because we were having so much fun!!  The love we felt from everyone at the event was unreal… and we are SOOOOOO happy that we will be coming back next year!!!!!!!

SEE YOU NEXT JULY SAO PAULO!!!! 😉

We are finally in Sao Paulo!!!!  And we have already received the best hospitality!!!  Erich and Gabi were so wonderful for picking us up and driving us to the hotel!  They are so sweet and greeted us with presents…. some things that you can only get in Brazil 😉

We can’t wait to see the rest of our Brazilian friends this weekend!!!  This will be our first time teaching together in Brazil…. and we are excited to share this weekend with some great people!

LET’S HAVE SOME FUN BRAZIL!!!  😉

-Maxime and Torri

We are so excited to launch our new website!!  This is a place you can come to for more information about us, whether you are looking to have us at your event, or just want to come check out what we are up to!

We will be constantly updating our calendar to keep you informed with where we will be, and we are also going to make sure we post in our blog after each event to share our experiences with the people we meet!!

Thanks for coming to visit our site!!  Come back soon for more updates and exciting news… maybe even involving DVDs soon 😉

-Maxime and Torri 🙂