Olivier Harouard

Olivier lives in France and he discovered his big passion for Swing in 2001. He started competing and soon he placed in the first eight in the French Boogie Woogie ranking list.

He and Natasha met each other at the Herräng Dance Camp in Sweden in 2001. They studied together and started to teach in 2003. Since then they have started to build up regular classes in Toulouse and in 2005 they moved to the Côte d’Azur near Cannes and started to develop the Swing culture there. They teach mainly Lindy Hop, Boogie Woogie, Balboa and West Coast Swing.

In 2006 Natasha and Olivier started to compete together and became NJC Balboa Champions in the Amateur division for their first run in the American Championships and 5th in NJC Lindy Hop Championship and jump in the Pro Division. During the same year they also joined finals in Jitterbug competitions in Italy, Munich and in Balboa Open of BOTP in Cannes, Euro Bal’ Cup of Frenchie Balboa Festival in Toulouse and reached 3rd place in the Euro Bal’ Cup in the Rock That Swing Festival in Munich.

They compete for fun but they enjoy especially the social dancing and exchanges around the world by sharing their passion with others. Since 2003 their blend of two cultures has been creating an original style of dancing and a very personal style of teaching in particularly p all kinds of swing dancing: Lindy Hop, Boogie Woogie, Balboa and West Coast Swing. Natasha fills the most complicated step with grace and makes it look so easy. Olivier is one of the best leaders in the world and bewitches each lady with his Frensch charm and esprit. They are permanent students in all styles of dancing and are constantly trying to learn how to improve their skills and their ways of teaching. Their creativity and musical synergies are matched and their professionalism, kindness and humour take them to teach in some of the biggest camps in the world of Swing