2YEP Proudly Presents Anaïs Kauer (Switzerland)

2YEP Proudly Presents Anaïs Kauer (Switzerland)

Hello world (or blog readers haha)!

Here comes finally my introduction text! 

My name is Anaïs.

I come from the French part of Switzerland, and I am 23 years old, 24 in one month (wow I am almost a quarter of century that’s crazy haha)

The reason why you have not heard about me until now is because before moving to Malmö for the One Year Hip Drop Education Program I got the opportunity to choreograph and perform for a dance/theater piece. 

I feel so fortunate that Lin and Karsten accepted me even though I missed the first eight weeks. 

This experience was very enriching for me, and I am so glad I have been able to do it, and then come to Sweden for the education. 

I can already tell you that this year will count for ten haha. 

I will learn sooooooooooooooooooo much it’s crazy!

Well, let’s start from the beginning; 

I started dancing when I was five years old because as every little girl I wanted to wear a pink tutu. 

My mom finally accepted to register me at a dance class. 

I said “finally” with purpose because she never wanted her daughter being the typical girl dancing with a tutu and her son playing soccer as every normal boy, but that is what happened haha! 

But it didn’t last long, my brother quitted soccer, and I started Hip Hop when I was ten years old. 

Till my 18th birthday I used to dance in the same dance school which focused on competitions and I didn’t really learn anything about Hip Hop. 

All I was able to do was jumping around full out on the stage but I couldn’t even do a simple groove haha.

After eight years of fidelity, we (my dance crew) decided to quite our leader to create our own thing. As many of us used to teach in our previous dance school, in 2008 we opened our own dance school with the students who wanted to keep learning from us. 

Since this rupture with our ex-coach we could open ourselves to the Hip Hop community and take advantage of the workshops that were given in our country. 

That is what opened my eyes and make me dance with purpose and envy. 

From this moment I spent all my money for workshops, dance events as Just Debout, Camps and dance classes.

In 2011, I took a year off after the high school to focus on dancing so I went three months to San Diego. 

It wasn’t my first time because with my dance crew we have been Swiss champions many times, and we got the chance to participate at the Hip Hop International world competition in Las Vegas. 

During one of our trips we stayed one week at the Culture Shock dance school and that is the reason why I went to San Diego, and not to LA. 

During this journey I found out how passionate I was, and how and committing I was into the dancing, but I was too scared to drop off everything and give it a chance, so I started college three months later. 

I did one year and stopped because the dance was taking up all place in my perspective of the future. So in 2013 I authorized myself to follow my dream and to work as hard as I can to reach it.

I was lucky to have the support of my family and my boyfriend who took the same way as I did. 

Last winter, we went together to LA for three months to train intensively. 

We meet amazing people and we did the Establish Your Empire Program led by Gigi Torres. 

That was the best experience I did in LA, and that is how I get closer to many incredible persons from all around the world. 

After this experience I realized how important and enriching it was to work surrounded of experienced teachers and amazing dancers from different background. 

That is what gave me the wish to be part of the 2YEP program. 

So as soon as I came back home I applied for it without even knowing how I would be able to pay this entire year haha but I really wanted it so bad. 

So I sent my application in May and I knew it would be tricky because I had to miss the first month. During these two long weeks I checked my emails every day ten times haha. 

I am so thankful to Lin and Karsten that they accepted me. 

From then on I worked very hard to save as much money as I could, and the time fused until I got here on the 19^th of October. 

I can’t believe I have only been here for one month because I have already learned soooooooooo much, that’s crazy! 

And at the same time I feel like I just arrived, I know it is weird but I am sure that many of you already had the same feeling in your life. 

I know that the time won’t slow down, so I will do my best to cherish every single moment I have here!

I think you already know too much about me so I will stop here haha! 

Thank you for reading this all the way till the end and I look forward to reveal more of my dance, follow me on youtube I will try to upload every choreo I am doing during this year so you can follow the improvement or not (but I hope there will have some haha)

Peace. J

Anaïs