Browly Adjavon

Movement Dialogue/West Coast Swing

Browly and Inga (BEING) are both trained in several dance styles and began dancing West Coast Swing separately. They rose up through the competitive ranks quickly, but gained even more notice when they began teaching West Coast Swing as a pair five years ago. Rather than focusing solely on WCS, they chose to devote their partnership to teaching and developing intelligent, connected, musical partner dancers - regardless of style. 

Their challenging, fun, often mind-blowing classes are applicable to all partner dance forms and their commitment to helping dancers find their own voice has made them popular around the world. If you dance a partner dance - of any kind - their classes are for you. If you are a dancer who focuses on solo movement, their classes are an excellent deep dive into moving with another body in space.

Browly Adjavon lived in several African and European countries before coming to France in 1998. For as long as he can remember, he's loved moving to all kinds of rhythms, alone or with friends.

It was during his university studies that he discovered partner dancing with Puerto Rican Salsa, which he taught for several years.

In 2008, he discovered West Coast Swing during a workshop, but it wasn't until 2011 that he came across it again and really got interested. What attracted him to this style of dance was above all the fact that it can be danced to many different kinds of music, as well as the freedom of movement it offers by not being totally “standardized”.

So he decided to throw himself fully into West Coast Swing, and toured festivals in France and abroad to learn and immerse himself in the dance. Along the way, he discovered his love of moving around the dance floor and improvising with others. He was soon offered a partnership and began teaching the dance in the summer of 2011. After teaching what he himself had learned of the dance, he gradually allowed himself to focus on movement and exchange on the dance floor, using West Coast Swing as a platform for research.

Today, he continues to put all his energy into exploring the universe of possibilities for movement for two (techniques, subtleties and evolutions), as well as refining his pedagogy and his own movement. So, every day, he studies, analyzes and seeks to understand and feel better, with the aim of always progressing as a dancer and as an educator. What he loves above all is to move and share his passion with others.

Today, Browly sees himself as an alchemist of two-person movement to music! He doesn't consider himself an instructor, or a teacher, or even a dance teacher, but simply a sharer* and a companion in the exploration of movement. He has the honor of having been a sharer at several festivals (small and large) and continues to criss-cross France and Europe, either alone or with his current partner, Inga K. He is recognized in the community as a social dancer, and also for the experimental yet rigorous pedagogy of his workshops, where his specialties are technique, movement understanding and musical interpretation. In his workshops, he takes you on a journey through movement with simplicity, passion and good humor.

*Sharer = person who shares. In this case, a person who shares his or her vision, leaving the other person free to make of it what the other wants to make of it.