This outstanding couple is new on Croatian scene but they will blow you out of your mind. Experience, knowledge and elegance. They have it everything. Do not miss their classes.

Chiqui was a principal artist of Cuba's National Folkloric Dance Group (Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba). His outstanding ability to learn and inspire people into the rich culture of dances from Cuba has made him very popular as a dance pedagogue.

Chiqui came to Sweden in 1992 and since then he has been contracted as a dance pedagogue, guest dance teacher and choreographer in numerous institutions such are Royal Academy of Music (Malmö and Stockholm), The college of Dance and the Ballet Academy (Stockholm), The Rhythmic center in Copenhagen just to name a few. He has also been invited as dance teacher and artist in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Holland, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, England, Scotia, Italy and USA.

Since 1993 Chiqui teaches Afro-Cuban dances, Latin jazz, Son, mambo, Cha-cha-chá and Rumba at Norby Dance studio in Uppsala. He has also participated in several films like; “Placido”,”El Cuerbo”,”Oggún”, “La Rumba”. He had the leading role in the film “Papá Montero” witch received a Cuban award.

Kristina studied Cuban and Afro-cuban dances at ENA (Escuela Nacionál de Arte) Habana, Cuba. She made practical an theoretic research about the Afro Cuban dances and their influence among the initiated Cubans who practiced the religious dances from the Yoruba and bantú tribes during 6 years. In her years in Cuba, Kristina worked with different folklore groups in Habana and was selected in an audition, as first foreigner ever, to work at the famous Tropicana cabaret. Also, she was a special matriculated student at the Conjunto Folklórico Nacionál de Cuba.

Kristina has been invited to several schools and countries together with Chiqui, as a dance pedagogue and artist (Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Russia). She has initiated a cultural exchange between Sweden and Cuba in 1998. With “Grupo Iré”, formed by her young dance students, Kristina went to Cuba and performed 11 choreographies of Cuban and Afro Cuban dances in different cultural scenes which helped her received an award from the Cuban culture ministry for spreading the Cuban culture outside of Cuba.