FOUNDER
“Dancers don't need wings to fly.”

Vinay Kapoor harbours over 9 years of experience in Latin dancing. His journey in dance began as a child, trying various dance styles including Bollywood and breakdancing and has continued on to recent years, most notably achieving his Masters in Performance Practices. He entered the exotic world of Salsa, Bachata and Jive in 2013 and as he explored further, he found his true calling in Bachata Fusion.

A wanderer at heart - he has travelled to Spain, France, Germany, Dubai and Italy to intricately explore Sensual Bachata with renowned teachers. After consistently being approached for private lessons when travelling he took the decision to establish his own dance academy in his home city of Mumbai in 2019. Following on from this, Vinay has been invited to collaborate with numerous internationally known Bachata artists for workshops, regular classes and now moving into congresses as well.

With Lights, Camera…Bachata! he now begins his journey to share his own style of Bachata Fusion here in the UK, helping individuals take their potential to a new level.

MANAGER & INSTRUCTOR

With 12 years of Jazz, Contemporary and Disco with the Midland’s Academy of Dance and Drama, Katherine has always had a love to perform. By the age of 17 Katherine had completed her Associate level IDTA qualification and began her teaching journey. Not long after this she discovered Cuban and Crossbody Salsa and quickly began competing and performing in the Latin scene too. Once experiencing a taste of the Latin scene Katherine began exploring other styles and quickly fell in love with Bachata which she has trained in consistently for the previous 5 years. Her need for technique and individuality has led Katherine to explore and develop her own style for both Salsa and Bachata that she now wishes to share with the Bachata community.

INSTRUCTOR

Gabriel started his dancing journey at Stepin2Salsa, a school from his home town Brasov, Romania. Here he learnt Traditional Bachata, LA Salsa and traditional Kizomba for 9 months until moving to the UK.

With his first school encouraging such variety, he now promotes this within his own ethos, always guiding people to attend classes with different teachers and encouraging students to explore and develop their own style.

After participating at a Bachata competition and winning 3rd place he realised that Bachata is his soft spot and started attending as many Bachata workshops as possible from world known artists at festivals in the UK and abroad.

He started teaching in November 2017 in Austria and has since continued this adventure in Coventry from February 2018 where he has founded Bachata Groove.

INSTRUCTOR

Starting his Bachata journey in Nottingham, Dhiwa can now be found throughout London, Reading and the Midlands as part of various Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba events.

Teaching every Monday at Bar Salsa Temple as part of the LatinCollective team, as well as their monthly and all-dayer events, Dhiwa has now expanded further to begin his own classes. “Bachata Addiction” is the home for Bachata classes for all levels and SBK parties within Reading, with an ever-growing number of students.

With Dhiwa’s growing name, he is now beginning to teach at some of the UK’s biggest festivals, including Bachakiz and LatinMotion and enjoys collaborating with other artists in and around the London area for regular SBK events.

INSTRUCTOR

Having grown up in Romania, Camy began her dancing journey, where she fell in love with both Salsa and Bachata.

After moving to continue this journey in the UK, it wasn’t long until Camy began teaching and performing. With a total of 6 years dancing and teaching experience Camy has become a regular for numerous events across the UK and abroad, including some of the UK’s biggest congresses. With this, she has collaborated with several renowned artists to establish her own workshops and courses, focusing on connection, technique and incorporating her own style throughout.

With Camy’s passion for Latin dances, she has developed her own style which has led to inspire many others across the UK to attend not just her partner work classes but also her solo classes, with her being recognised as a solo artist as well. Her style combined with her passion has always led to her classes and shows being a memorable experience for all.

MANAGER

Lydia started dancing over 10 years ago when she began exploring both Street and Commercial styles. Through these she had the opportunity to perform regularly across the UK and with further performance opportunities in Europe.

She later found the Latin dance scene when she began dancing Cross Body Salsa at University and this passion very quickly led into the world of Bachata. More recently Lydia has developed a love for Kizomba and has started to explore other styles in this area, always with a keen interest to learn more.

Recently Lydia has embraced the opportunity to return to performance with participation in the LTP Ladies team performing at Nottingham’s BachaKiz festival and other SBK events.

Instructor

Rachel has been dancing salsa and bachata for over 17 years. She enjoys all styles of bachata - leading and following. Though she loves to perform, her main passion is for social dancing. Rachel has been teaching and performing with LTP Nottingham (Los Traviesos Produtions) for the past 6 years, and has also undertaken the role of “team trainer” for Latin Fenix ladies styling team by Magda y Valeria. Rachel is now working on an original choreography for her own ladies styling project “Bachata Vixens”.