Fascinated by music since the childhood, Vivien discovers the dance at the age of 12. He learns Rock n' Roll, Latin dances and Ballroom dancing. In parallel, he practises a martial art, the Ninjutsu, in which he will become Shodan (black belt).
In 2014, Vivien becomes a social dances teacher.
In September 2017, they opened the first beginner's WCS class in Aix-Les-Bains for the dancing school "Doriane Dance Académie".
Since September 2018, they are cacohing the Competition level weekly class in the dancing school "Swing Folies".
In 2021, Gaëlle creates GB Cré'action.
Since September 2022, Vivien also teachs West Coast Swing for Flashdanse, in Anthy-sur-Léman and for the Cern Dancing Club in Meyrin.
Since September 2023, Gaëlle & Vivien are teaching in Sillingy for Sillon danse.
Gaëlle and Vivien continue to train, take privates lessons with WCS All-Stars / Champions and participate in numerous events (lessons, competitions and practice parties) every year, in France and Europe.
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Gaëlle's records, now at Advanced level in West Coast Swing competitions :
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Finalist, Advanced Jack & Jill, German Open WCS 2022 (Germany)
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1st place, Sophisticated Jack & Jill with Vivien, Milan Modern Swing 2019 (Italy)
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Finalist, Advanced Jack & Jill, Milan Modern Swing 2019 (Italy)
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5th place, Advanced Jack & Jill, Sea Sun & Swing 2019 (France)
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Finalist, Advanced Jack & Jill, Westy Nantes 2019 (France)
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Finalist, Advanced Jack & Jill, Swingtzerland 2019 (Switzerland)
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1st place, Sophisticated Jack & Jill, Budafest 2019 (Hungary)​
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4th place, Advanced / All-Stars Jack & Jill, Westies Angels 2018 (France)
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Finalist, Advanced Jack & Jill, Riga Summer Swing 2018 (Latvia)
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Vivien's records, now in All-Stars level in West Coast Swing competitions :
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1st place, Sophisticated Jack & Jill, Budafest 2020 (Hungary)​
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2nd place, Advanced/All-Stars Jack & Jill, Milan Modern Swing 2019 (Italy)
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1st place, Sophisticated Jack & Jill with Gaëlle, Milan Modern Swing 2019 (Italy)
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3rd place, Strictly Open, Swing In Capital 2019 (Italy)
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2nd place, All-Stars Jack & Jill, Winter White 2018 (Norway)
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1st place, All-Stars Jack & Jill, Riga Summer Swing 2018 (Latvia)
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Finalist, Advanced/All-Stars Jack & Jill, Westy Nantes 2018 (France)
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4th place, Advanced/All-Stars Jack & Jill, Winter White 2017 (Norway)​
Gaëlle & Vivien, 1st Place Sophisticated J&J,
Milan Modern Swing 2019 - Final 3rd song
At the end of 2010, while he resume learning WCS in the "Swing Folies" Dance School with Marie Perrin as teacher, he meets Gaëlle, with whom he begins to train with and to participate at his first events in this discipline...
In 2013, they are trained by Marie Perrin to give WCS lessons. She allows them to teach at the end of the year, on level 1 and 2 classes, within her dancing school. In September of the same year, they openned the first beginner's WCS class in Albertville for the association "Salvadanse".
He discovers Boogie-Woogie in 2005 and already looks at videos of Jordan Frisbee and Tatiana Mollmann (big champions) in the idea to reproduce West Coast Swing's (WCS) patterns in Boogie... It is in 2006, during a Boogie event in Paris " The Crazy about the Swing " that he attend to a WCS initiation by Mélanie Stocker Bucher and Olivier Massart.
