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The dance video database
[2007/05/19]: The last years a lot of effort in our club has been put into creating an online video database for dancers. The database is especially designed for dancers and dance teachers that want to learn new steps and variations to enrich their dance. To ease your learning the steps can be shown as video and detailed textual descriptions. And best of all - it's available to everyone and it's free of charge! Click here to try. New content will be added regularly.
Change of focus
[2006/07/01]: After having been competing in almost every international Boogie Woogie competition since 1999 we have decided to take a break in the Boogie Woogie competition dancing. We wish to send a great thank you to all the people that has helped and supported us during these years. Especially we wish to thank our club NTNUI Dans with our president John Asbjørn Innvær, our traniners Michel Carlus and Michèle Planques, the Norwegian Dance Federation, and Olympiatoppen. Without your help we would never have achieved the same results.We have however no plans of disappearing from the dancing scene. Aina has started as the National team coach for the Norwegian Boogie Woogie and Lindy Hop team. We also have started judge education. In addition we are educating Boogie Woogie teachers, teaching on a lot at workshops and doing some other projects. We hope to see you all on a workshop or at a competition in the near future! :)
1st place in Strictly Lindy at Grand Nationals!
[2006/05/28]: The annual Grand Nationals Swing Dance Competition in Atlanta USA was our first US competition. Inspired by a great audience it felt like we succeeded well in the Strictly Lindy Division, and it was a big honor for us to receive the 1st price.World Cup, Avignon
[2006/03/17]: We were proud to be part of the biggest-ever Norwegian team in the Boogie Woogie World Cup in Avignon, France. Our team, and a numerous audience was a great inspiration for us. We were very pleased with our dancing, and it was a great feeling to start the season with a win. The organisers deserve credit for doing a very good job.World Champions!
[2005/11/26]: We are very happy to have defended our World Champion title in the competition in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. We wish to thank the organisers and the audience for creating an excellent athmosphere during the competition. A special thank you goes to the people who gave us great support - especially the fabulous Norwegian team. Your support gave us a lot of inspiration. [Results] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)]Norwegian Championships, Skien
[2005/11/05]: After the extremely successful Norwegian Championships last year the organisers of this year's event faced great expectations. To everybody's pleasure the event was a great success. We were very pleased to see that the swing and rock'n'roll scene in Norway is expanding, and that so many dancers performed so well. [Results] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)]
European Championship, Antibes, France
[2005/10/29]: Having won their last World Cup competition a lot of pressure was put on the French home favourites Sarah & Rémy in front of the European Championships. The organizers had done a great job creating a good frame for the competition. The big audience also provided a great atmosphere. We were very satisfied with our own dancing, and we were very proud to bring the European Champion title to Norway. [Results] [Article (Norwegian)]World Cup Karlstad, Sweden
[2005/09/10]: For the first time in history a Boogie Woogie world cup was organized in Sweden. The many Norwegians who had travelled across the border provided fantastic support for the dancers, and they contributed to the excellent Norwegian results. With 1st and 4th place in the junior class and 1st and 5th plass in the main class it was an amazing experience to participate. [Results] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Article (Norwegian)] [Pictures] [Video] [World Ranking]Old news are moved to news archive.
About us
When Aina isn't working her night shifts at the hospital or when Jørgen isn't working in front of his computer, we're usually spending the time dancing. We're dancing in the dancing group in the largest sports association in Norway, NTNUI.On these pages, we have published some information about our favourite dance, Boogie Woogie. Earlier, we spent most of our time traning and going to competitions. In our photos archive we have put pictures from some of these (and other) events. Now, we're more involved in activities like organizing, judging and teaching.
If you have questions or want to talk to us, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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