Dancers/Instructors

Christos Pournaras has won two times a gold medal at the Bachata Special category in the international dance competition of Thessaloniki called TDF. Many articles have been written and many interviews have been given for his great dancing achievements!

​

​

UnI (Unique) is a unique and diverse team of people, of different age, gender and capabilities, with the only thing in common their love about dance and Latin rhythm. The team was created only a few months ago in Thessaloniki, by Ermioni Adamian and the help of Step Up Dance Studio, in order to give the chance to people with movement difficulties to express their self through dancing and feel the joy of dance.

​

Their unique dancing, full of fun, speed, styling and mambo madness, paired with an entertaining though highly professional way of teaching, paved them the way to many prestigious festivals in different parts of the world. They are performers, choreographers, teachers, and also past years competitors with big winnings in their bio. Together they run two Salsa Schools in Athens in Greece (SalsaDoo Dance School).

Willy and Noura are international dancers, choreographers and Caribbean dance instructors since 2011. In 2014 they have been world champions in the Hong Kong Salsa Congress Championship. They are passionate and disseminators of the Traditional or Dominican Bachata. Since 2018 they have started their Choreographic Project called “Dominican Fusion Around the World”.

Manuel and Martina have been guests in many events, congresses, festivals and dance talent events all over the world and have conquered the third position at the International Bachata Day in Milan in 2017.  They specialize in Sensual Bachata, acrobatic preparation (lifts and tricks), and they are choreographers and competitive trainers. Now they are currently dancing in an Italian Salsa group  which is called "Latin hypotic".

​

​

They are one of the first couples that brought Salsa in Greece. They are also the first couple that brought and started promoting Kizomba and the african culture in the country and became World Champions after winning the 8th Africadancar International Kizomba Championship 2015 in Lisbon. Hara and Antonis are the owners of the Independance Studios in Volos & Larissa and organisers of Greek Salsa Bootcamp, Ski & Salsa and Sensualonica Dance Festival.

​

Ilan started his dancing career 17 years ago in CT & NY, USA. Performing, teaching & being part of all major salsa festival in the US 10 years ago, Ilan moved back to his birth country - Israel and for the last few years he is leading the dancing salsa scene is Israel. Lately he is known as one of the most favorite social artist/dancer in all of the major festivals around the world. Catch him always in font! At the hot zone dancing with everyone until the last song of the night.

​

She is one of the best female dancers in Israel today.
Anna started dancing 15 years ago, performing and teaching in many congresses and festivals around the world. She is well known for her lady’s style classes and workshops. Anna has her ladies group called – "ANNA'S LADIES". The group won several salsa competitions and is performing all over the world. She owns her own studio in Israel for many years and is  teaching in all major clubs and studios.

​

Stathis Bogdanos, known as Dr.Bo, is a Salsa instructor. His career started back in 2003, when he successfully participated in a numerous of Latin and Ballroom dance competitions. But as Salsa won him over, he is now considered as one of the most popular Greek Salsa instructors. He is not only participating in festivals in Greece and abroad as well, but he is also hosting one of the biggest dance festivals in Greece "Danzaloon".

​

Alessandro started dancing at the age of 13. His teacher was Max Conga y Clave. When he was 16, he met Andrea y Stefania from Estudio Tropical and he started discovering Salsa On 2 style. He has been trained from the best instructors of  in the world (Eddie Torres, Adolfo Indacochea etc.). He also participated in the World Latin Dance Championship in Miami and he was ranked among the first 10. Currently he organises and performs in the best parties of Milan.

Maria has practiced many dance styles such as Argentine tango, international Latin, pole dance, Aerial dance etc. She is based in Thessaloniki teaching salsa, bachata and ladies styling at the Step Up Dance Studio since 2016 and she is training teams and couples for shows and competitions with many distinctions. Maria is also collaborating with dance teachers from all over Greece and abroad for teaching and performing. She is traveling and taking part in numerous congresses.

​

​

Vasilis Gouletsas started dancing Latin dances at the age of 17. He has taken part in countless performances, television shows (Greece Has Talent, So You Think You Can Dance). In the latest years, he has been professionally involved in Salsa, taking part in many competitions with great success, winning the first places. Hara Rogoti started dancing at the age of 10. At the age of 14, she started practicing salsa and bachata. To this day she is an active dancer as she participates in many festivals every year doing shows and teaching. She has participated in many competitions winning many awards.

​

He began to get occupied with Latin American music in 1988, initially as a collector of records and books on the subject and later (1991) as a musician (percussionist). Between 1995-1999 he studied traditional and religious Afro-Cuban music in Cuba. He also attended courses in Puerto Rico (2003) with the subject of the traditional musical forms of the island. Since 1994 he has been teaching Latin American percussion. Vasilis has also given lectures and seminars on Afro-Cuban culture, Cuban music, Colombian music and Salsa. From 2001 until today, he presents the music of Latin America and its history on Kosmos 93.6, with the radio show "Mambo Estereo".

Plom and Koharik are coming from the cities of Thessaloniki and Trikala respectively! Plom started to dance at the age of 16, different styles like hip hop, break dance, ballroom and latin, but after a while he followed the path of salsa, bachata and kizomba, teaching in many dance schools and participating in many dance festivals around the world! Koharik started dancing at the age of 5 with ballet, modern and contemporary dances and throughout the years she learned hip hop, commercial, jazz , reggaeton etc.! She travels the world participating in many dance festivals teaching and performing! They met each other before 2 years and since then they work together teaching some crazy and fun classes!

She graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at the Physical Education and Sports Science, specialized in Dance Arts. Her passion led her to African Dances. She travelled to Ghana, Jamaica and France etc but also she attended many workshops and took private lessons. She made collaborations in videoclips with great dancers, such as E-Flex & Lionel Vero and great singers, such as Flavour, Bombastiik , Bosslife and Tosin Martyns. Ioanna is  the Ceo of "Jafrican Ting", "Jammin' Crew" and " Joo Waa Team", the 1st team in Greece dancing to Urban Afro Dances. The last 10 years she has focused in Afro Styles, participating with shows in festivals or

competitions. 

She started dancing at the young age of 4 years old. Since then she has attended many different kind of classes such us classic ballet, modern-jazz, salsa, reggaetton , bachata , kizomba etc. She has participated and performed in competitions and festivals since she was 16 and she has worked in a lot of dance schools and studios at Thessaloniki teaching salsa, bachata, kizomba, salsa ladies, bachata ladies and reggaeton. At 2018 she opened a dance scool at Peraia named Danception and she keeps teaching also at Thessaloniki.

​

​

​

Arsenis (aka R-sense) started dancing 7 years ago and fell in love with Bachata!! He is known for his social skills and the workshops he is doing are named Bachata social because he is focused in the connection, communication and feelings through social dancing!

He is the organizer of one of the most successful parties in Thessaloniki the latest years, R-SENSUAL and has participated in festivals and events in Greece and abroad as well as in the last Sensualonica Dance Festival.

​

Angel is from Mexico and has been dancing for 17 years. He is an instructor and a chorepographer of Bachata, Salsa and Reggaeton. Together him and Athena Tsopana have brought Bachata dancing in Greece. He has travelled to many festivals throughout the world and he keeps on doing it. His dancing partner at the moment is Nasia Kosmaoglou and both have introduced Bachaton Style. He is the owner of a dance school in Athens, called Dance Works and has been cooperating with Sofia Spyropoulou for the Infinity Dance Project. 

He has been born at Esslingen, Germany and began his studies at "EstudioSudamerica” dance school in Berlin in 1997. Vasilis has been taught salsa cubana from great instructors such as Juan Jose Ortiz, Israel Gutierez, Seo Fernandez etc. and has been a member of the dance group “Mas Salsa” since 2001 (Berlin) following many seminars and attending salsa festivals throughout Europe. Due to his vast willingness to introduce and teach this amazing dance in Greece, in 2002 he has founded one of the first dance schools salsa cubana in Greece, called “THESsalsoNIKI". Ever since he has been travelling all over Greece teaching Salsa Cubana workshops.

Katerina started dancing at the age of 10 several different styles (Modern, hip-hop, etc.). For the last 11 years she has been specialized in Salsa and Bachata. She has  participated in dancing competitions both in Greece and abroad where she has won the first place either with her team or in couples as well as in ladies style where she was the Coach. Since 2019 she has her own school in Serres! And she is also a certified bachata instructor.

​

​

They are a dancing couple based in Thessaloniki. Their versatility as dancers and instructors combined with their passion for Salsa and Bachata led them to where they are today, international dancers and instructors, with many years of experience as a dancing duet. They specialize in Salsa Cubana and Bachata as they have taken classes with Maestro Elloy Corales and many more local and international dance instructors. Their Salsa team  is called Pasos Borrachos. They have developed their unique style in Salsa and Bachata and they are professionally trained, in various dance styles like Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Cheerleading, Acrobatics and Street Dance.

Instructors and directors of the "Street Latin" Dance Studio in Larissa, Greece.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

Sofia is from Athens but lives in Crete. She owns the dance school "Infinity Dance Project" in Heraklion. She is a choreographer, salsa and bachata instructor.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

Stella Anastasaki (aka estrellaKIZZ) is a dancing instructor of Kizomba dancing, Kizomba ladies workshops and Afrostyles.

Dooniors Team is coached by SalsaDoo (Panagiotis & Myrto).

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

Danceworks team is coached by Angel Vizcarra.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

The Alma Libre Dance Club in Ptolemaida was created with love and passion for all the Latin American dances. The manager Radoglou Maria has been spreading her knowledge and all her love for dance throughout Western Macedonia for 24 years now with inexhaustible energy and passion! Dancing classes for all ages!

​

​

​

​

​

​

Independance Students Team by  Antonis and Hara, owners of Independance Studios in Larissa and Volos respectively.

​

​

​

​

​

​

Batala Salonica was founded in 2016 and is one of 46 Batala bands worldwide. Batala's music is called “samba-reggae”, it has its roots in traditional African percussion and is accented with a dose of Brazilian samba. Samba reggae symbolizes Love, Equality, Creation. It is a kind of community music that embraces diversity, acceptance of all creeds, ages, colors, walks of life & human abilities. Accordingly, we also adopt this participatory culture in our team! Our clothing, colors, music and choreography are an audio-visual spectacle that few will forget