TANJA WINGERTER

Tanja started dancing Lindy hop in Ljubljana, Slovenia and continued during consecutive exchanges in Montpellier and Madrid. After her stays abroad she started inviting teachers to Finland and teaching herself and in 2017 she co-founded Black Pepper Swing. Nowadays she teaches local classes in Helsinki four days a week, travels and competes and attends and teaches workshops. Her style is often described as elegant, yet playful. She strives to maintain a strong bound with the musical and historical foundations of the dance, as well as to find more dimensions in the ways we connect and interact in Lindy hop.

KAY WERNDLI

Kay was first introduced to Lindy Hop in Bern, Switzerland. Soon after, he moved to Stockholm, which is where he truly discovered his passion for this dance. Taking as many classes as possible, and social dancing as often as he could, Kay developed his own style of Lindy Hop, influenced by the vibrant Swedish Lindy spirit. After moving to the Netherlands, he started teaching local classes at first and later on taught courses and workshops in multiple cities across the country as well as abroad.

Now living in Finland, Kay continues to teach for Black Pepper Swing in Helsinki. In his teaching, Kay tries to take the best of these different Swing scenes that he has been part of and to pass this knowledge on to his students. In his dancing, he always strives to find a balance between being a supportive partner, creating and developing ideas together, and expressing his own individual style. Kay can be easily spotted on the dance floor because of his athletic dance style and his happy demeanour.