International Swing Music and Dance Festival

The official teaser for the 2022 festival

THE DANCERS

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Ksenia Parkhatskaya is an internationally renowned artist known to be one of the best Jazz dancers in the world. She is not only a very prominent artist (with her 200 million views on the internet) but she also demonstrates great artistic versatility through singing, dancing, choreography, music and acting.

Solo Jazz Lessons

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Swing dancing for Mona is a family heritage; her parents were also longtime dancers. A talented dancer, Mona trains and successfully participates in numerous international competitions in all swing dances.

Rasmus started dancing as a child and already has a long and successful career as a dancer in Boogie Woogie where he competed with his sister.

Lindy Hop and Shag Lessons

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Josette Wiggan started dancing with Paul and Arlene Kennedy in Los Angeles. His love for the stage was fostered by the Kennedys and refined as an adult with Lynn Dally’s Jazz Tap ensemble.

A graduate of UCLA, Josette Wiggan’s career highlights include the 2001 Spotlight Award, Broadway’s 1st National Tour of 42nd Street, and studying with Germaine Acogny in Senegal

Tap and Solo Jazz Lessons

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Originally from Valencia, María discovered Lindy Hop in her favorite city, Barcelona. María dedicates her personal and professional life to movement, sometimes as a dancer, sometimes as a teacher or assistant choreographer.

Born in Switzerland, Aurélien comes from a family of musicians. It is quite naturally that he discovered jazz there through the practice of the violin and then the saxophone.

Lindy Hop lessons

THE MUSICIANS

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The Big Band of Montpellier is a regional formation of seventeen musicians and a singer Lucy Estaque with the voice of Sarah Vaughan, who plays the jazz of the years 1930-50.

 

Live, Friday July 15, 2022 at 6 p.m., at the opening of the festival, esplanade Charles de Gaulle

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The Jazz Society is a quintet of seasoned musicians with a passion for Golden Era swing. Duke Ellington and Count Basie are just two of the great musicians who inspire the Quintet’s repertoire.

The sumptuous melodies and lyrical flights of Franc Nicolas (trumpet) and Patrick Torreglosa (sax) are backed up by a frenzied, killer rhythm section featuring Mike Santanastasio (drums), Claudio Della Corte (guitar) and Fred Léger (double bass). All the ingredients are there for moments of pure, joyful, spellbinding swing.

Live, Saturday July 16, 2022 at 1 p.m., esplanade Charles de Gaulle

 

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The Timber Men Stompers, is a “Hot swing vocal harmony group” made up of four or five young men living in the south of France. They have been playing Old Time Popular music from the 1930s and 1940s for almost 20 years now.

Live, Saturday July 16, 2022 at 7 p.m., esplanade Charles de Gaulle

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The original arrangements allow this octet to sound like a big band with a sparkling brass section (alto sax-tenor sax-trombone-trumpet), a contagious swing rhythm and an interactivity with the public and the swing dancers sublimated by Christiane Raby, queen of scat, flautist and exceptional singer!

Live, Saturday July 16, 2022 at 9 p.m., Château de Flaugergues

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Dixieland Orchestra plays the so-called “Revival” Swing of the 1950s. The time when the great musicians who created Jazz return to the front of the stage to ignite an already conquered public. This is the time when Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong became immortal!

Live, Sunday July 17, 2022 at 1 p.m., esplanade Charles de Gaulle

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Acoustik Ladyland revives the great currents of an authentic Rock’n Roll, which made so many generations dance…

Live, Sunday July 17, 2022 at 7 p.m., at the end of the festival, esplanade Charles de Gaulle