Our Team

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Ballroom Professional

Helle started dancing at the age of 3 at her local dancing school in Aalborg, Denmark. Growing up she trained in Ballroom, Tap, Ballet and Jazz. At the age of 17 she joined the performing group at her dancing school and did her first big tour in Thailand. Since then she has toured 3 times in Thailand, Kenya and across Europe.

In 1994 she moved to London, England to concentrate purely on Latin American dancing and trained with some of the best coaches in the world. In 1998 she turned Professional. In May 2000 after nearly 7 years in London she moved to Boston to teach Ballroom dancing. She taught at a local dance studio, at MIT and at Harvard. In January 2002 Helle joined Burn The Floor and went on tour in USA, Australia and Japan.

Her results include: South of England Champion, Danish Championship Finalist, UK Rising Star Finalist, Celtic Classic Finalist, Danish Representative in the Worlds and European Championship, Quarterfinalist at the International Championships in London, England.

In addition. Helle currently coaches the Boston University Ballroom Dance Team, UCONN Ballroom Dance Team, and the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team.

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Ballroom Professional

Stas started his dance training in Ukraine when he was 6 years old. He danced in the Standard and Latin dance program. At a junior age he became Champion of Ukraine. Later on in his dancing career he had a big international victory in the Latin program:

  • Bronze medalist international competition Tropicana Cup 2004
  • Poland Finalist of international competitions in Austria and Netherlands (2005)-Finalist
  • Imperial and International Championships (England) 2006.
  • Bronze medalist of the London Open (England)
  • Bronze medalist of the junior Blackpool (England) 2006.-Top 35 of the Blackpool (England) 2007 in Under21 and Amateur RS devislon.
  • Presented Ukraine in Blackpool (England) 2008-2009 -Chempion of Ukraine 2008.(Youth)
  • Participant of European Championship IDSF 2008.(Russia).
  • Semi-finalist of the World Championship IDSF 2008 (France)

His main coaches growing up were Igor Volkov and Ella Ivanova. As he developed Stas trained with World class dance instructors with elite trainers such as Graham Oswick, Richard Porter, Tone Nyhagen, Barbara MacColl, Eugene Katsevman, Maria Manusova, Markus Homm, Agita Baranovska, Ruud Vermeil, Maximilian Winkelhuis, to name a few.

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Salsa Professional

John took his first dance steps in Extreme Dancesport’s own Winter Ball Social back in December 2010, while still finishing up his last year of graduate school. Entranced by the joy and energy exuded by all the social dancing present around him, he immediately signed up for a multitude of dance classes and became completely engrossed in learning more about this art. Since then, John has focused on salsa dancing and has trained intensively with numerous salsa dance companies and recognized professionals in the Boston area, including having been in several performance teams throughout the years. In addition, he’s traveled to many different salsa congresses throughout the United States for performances and/or learning new styles and technique for social dancing. A regular within the Boston salsa scene, as well as an active participant in helping the scene grow and thrive, John is now here to give back to the studio that started it all for him!

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First Impressions

Casey started dancing with us three years ago and instantly fell in love with dance. After taking a few different social classes she danced her way through the Latin Competitor Program and started dancing competitively in 2012. She started from Pre-Bronze and now worked her way up to Gold and soon to be Open level. Pharmacy Technician by day and fierce latin dancer by night, she's a force to be reckon with. Casey works at the studio front desk with the biggest smile. Be sure to stop by and say "hi" to her at the front desk!

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Ballroom Professional

Steve took his first step over 15 years ago as an adult amateur dancer. He like all newbies started from the beginning with counting "slow, quick, quick, slow" and discovered the beauty and addiction of ballroom dancing. He never looked back and danced, danced, danced his way up to the top. Concentrating on International Latin, he won all the local collegiate competitions and either won or placed in the finals in national competitions such as the the Manhattan Amateur Classic and the coveted Nationals Dancesport Championship. As he got older, ahem, none the wiser, he also did Pro-Am (amateurs dancing with pros) and either won or placed in the finals of all the major pro-am competitions in the United States. After many, many years of training with top coaches and competing all over country, he has decided it's time to give back to the dance community and teach. He turn Pro several year back and now he enjoys teaching to students once like himself and share the passion for dance. Now the student has become the master, grasshopper... This grasshopper is ready to spread the dancing love!

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