JUNITH JACOTIN
I was born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua. My mother is Nicaraguan and my father Haitian. Music and dance are part of their philosophy of life. That’s why I fell in love with dance from a very early age.
Already at the age of 3 I started with dance lessons and later learned Jazz, Modern and Ballet during my formation. For seven years I was a dancer in one of Nicaragua’s most important folkloric ballets, which gave me a lot of stage experience and the opportunity to travel to other countries.
I started Salsa in 2012 and immediately fell in love with this dance style, which allows me to do a very open interpretation. Salsa enabled me as a dancer to have a lot of fun, to acquire my own style and to play with the dance technique. I teach passionately and like to create new choreographies for groups, couples and myself.
Salsa has helped me to free myself, to get to know myself better, to discover my body, to find inspiring people, not to give up and the movement and music help me to always find new joy. I hope that it will be good for you as well.
PHILIP KÄNZIG
As a teenager I loved many different sports, among them break dancing. Shortly before my studies in sports I developed a strong passion for Salsa, took part in a dance trip to Cuba and later attended a two-year dance formation for caribbean dances at the school Salsadancers. There i discovered percussion and Salsa music as a new passion.
At the age of 30, I decided to focus more on dancing and traveled to Milano (IT) for a year and a half. There I trained intensively with Stefania Civilla & Andrea Rattazzi, Jose Diaz, Fernando Sosa and Tania Cannarsa & Adolfo Indacochea. In Milan, I also met my wife and dance partner Junith Jacotin and together we later moved to Montpellier (FR) to do a professional formation at Alegria DC.
In 2018 I spent one month in NY and trained with Yamulee, Franklin Diaz and Denise & Ernesto.