... started at SwingAout Festival 2015. Since then we had been competing, teaching and performing boogie woogie all around Europe and outside of it. With great joy we used to travel sharing the love for swing dancing in general and boogie woogie in particular. We also started our own dance event called Boogie Feet's Festival in Sondre's hometown Dombås, Norway for inspiring and bringing up swing dancers from many different countries.
After the Great Change, as we call it, we have grown an online community to share our passion for dancing via modern means of communication
Our credentials of 2016-2021:
World Champions 2017, 2019
Vice World Champions 2018, 2021
European Champions 2018, 2019
Nordic Champions 2017, 2018
Norwegian Champions 2017, 2018 and 2019
Two times SAP Final World Cup winners
10 World Cup wins all over the world including USA and Russia.
The biggest YouTube Swing Dance Couple 2021 - Silver Button Holders
Sondre
was born and grew up in Dombås (central Norway), lived in Warsaw for 3 years and now lives in Kiev (Ukraine).
He started dancing at 5 years old. At the age of 8 he took part in his first Swing dance competitions and at 13 began teaching locally.
In 2007 Sondre went for Norway's got Talent show and since then his dance career has really started;
In 2009-2010
- began competing in Boogie Woogie;
- European Champion title in Boogie Woogie Juniors class 2010 (Stuttgart, Germany);
In 2011-2015
- also started dancing and competing in Lindy-hop;
- World Champion title in Boogie Woogie Juniors class 2011 (Stuttgart, Germany);
- 1 Place in European Swing Dance Championship Strictly 2013 (London, UK);
- 1 Place Boogie Woogie Cup 2014 (Munich, Germany);
- 7 Fast feet jack'n'jill victories in 2011-2014.
In 2017-2019
- moved to Warsaw
- became a full-time dancer
In 2020-2021
- working as CEO for Sondre & Tanya YouTube Channel
In 2022
- moved to Kiev
- CEO for Sondre & Tanya YouTube Channel
- full-time dancer
Tanya
was born and grew up in Kiev (Ukraine), lived in Warsaw (Poland) for some time, now back in KIev again.
She started with classical dance at the age of 4, and at 9 switched to acrobatic Rock-n-Roll. Since then she had been practicing and taking part in different projects also connected to Modern jazz, Contemporary dane, Boogie Woogie and Lindy-hop.
In 2000-2009
- won World Cup in Rock-n-Roll Formation category;
- got promoted to R-n-R national judge of 3rd category in Ukraine;
- got to 1/2 finals of Ukraine got Talent show with Boogie Woogie showcase;
- made LL.M in International and European Public law at Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands);
In 2010
- Got married and became a mom of a son
In 2011-2015
- won 4 World Cups in boogie-woogie Main class;
- worked as cartoonist at stop motion studio Novatorfilm (Kiev, Ukraine);
- got Master of Sports of International Class in Ukraine
In 2016-2020
- moved to Warsaw
- became full-time dancer
- divorced
In 2021
- moved to Kiev
- working as a stop-motion artist at Trendformer
- working on Sondre & Tanya YouTube Channel
