Kasia i Marcin Skalscy:
(Przepraszamy ale jedyny nasz aktualny opis mamy po angielsku… )
Kasia and Marcin are a teaching couple from Kraków with impressive experience in both dancing and teaching (each of them has been teaching for over 20 years). For a long time their interests revolved around competitive ballroom dancing.
As an instructor, Marcin has been working with competitive ballroom dancers for over 15 years, teaching mainly adults at all levels of advancements (from complete beginners to S-class dancers). He is also a personal trainer and Buteyko method instructor, and passionate about healthy movement.
Kasia, on the other hand, has been focusing on social dances. She’s gained experience in teaching kids, teenagers and adults (some of them physically challenged) at various levels of advancement, as well as running courses for other dance instructors. She’s also the creator of the largest charity dance course in Lesser Poland (one of Polish voivodeships), attended by hundreds of students every year. She is also passionate about andragogy science.
As a teaching duo, Marcin and Kasia prove that absolutely everyone is capable of learning how to dance. They are well-known and appreciated for their positive energy and passionate approach to dance instruction.
Kasia and Marcin in just two years (from year 2014) have built the largest WCS community in Poland (and this part of Europe). Currently, in their dance studio in Kraków, they run 15 WCS courses on 6 different levels of advancement. A number of their students attend international events and compete successfully in Newcomer, Novice, Intermediate, Advance and All-star divisions. Happy as they are with their students’ results in jack’n’jills, they do not see the competitive aspect of WCS as the most important thing in this dance. Social dancing and having fun is what they appreciate most. The most wonderful and fulfilling experience is for them to see how people who were extremely skeptical on their first lesson and thought that dancing is not for them get excited about WCS and join the community for good.
They constantly surprise their students with new, creative exercises and they are capable of translating even the most difficult WCS concepts into a language understandable for everyone.
For Kasia and Marcin, West Coast Swing is not only about dancing but, most importantly, about spending time with positive people, having loads of fun and recharging batteries.