We are dance athletes by passion, dedicated trainers by calling!
Our mission is to serve as catalysts for both the personal and athletic growth of the dancers who choose to work with us.
Your advantage lies in our experience. Over more than 40 years of active competitive dancing, we’ve personally “tested” a vast array of training methods, dance fashions, and teaching frameworks. We’ve distilled these insights into one unified and proven teaching methodology: the BALLROOM PERFORMANCE® concept. As a result, our dancers improve rapidly and save countless hours, months, years, in their development.
“We don’t do a little for everyone—we do everything for a select few!”
We—Aurelia and Heinz-Josef Bickers—have been standing among the world’s elite as a dance couple for nearly 30 years. During our four-plus decades in competitive ballroom, we’ve entered over 600 national and international championships as amateurs and professionals alike, claimed 10 World Championship titles in Standard ballroom together, and guided numerous couples to championship honors—from regional titles to world championships.
Even amid the everyday demands of careers and studies, we always found time to refine our own dancing. Today, we continuously integrate every new advancement in tournament technique and style into our teaching. We demonstrate that modern Standard dancing can be performed healthily and successfully—even in later stages of life, or as we call it, in “mature” years. In our lessons, we equip competitive dancers with winning dynamics and presentation techniques. But even if competition isn’t your goal, we are deeply committed to one principle:
“You have the right to healthy, biomechanically correct movement patterns.”
This philosophy ensures our students can enjoy partner dancing—the world’s most beautiful shared hobby—for many years to come. That’s why we developed the exclusive BALLROOM PERFORMANCE® concept: even self-proclaimed "dance skeptics" can confidently take to the dance floor in no time. We teach far more than mere step sequences—we instill true dance floor confidence.
Our students benefit not only from our 40+ years of competitive experience at the highest levels of dance sport but also from our top-tier coaching credentials: the DOSB Dance Sport Trainer A and B licenses, the LSBH “Sport in Prevention” Trainer B license, and ongoing advanced study at Italy’s DanceSport Academy. In every lesson, we emphasize healthy movement mechanics, drawing on continuous professional development in biomechanics, neuroathletics, and health prevention.
