Discover the Latin Tinge at BAZZ 2025!
BAD ASS JAZZ 10 -12 OCTOBER 2025
Welcome to BAZZ!
Bad Ass Jazz, a place of sharing, learning, inspiration and celebration of human expression through dance.
Get ready to learn from Bad Ass teachers and to get down with amazing people on LIVE music by musicians who really know how to get people moving!
An event that aims to bridge dance communities like Swing, Street dance and Afro, and to explore how these communities can fuel and inspire each other. Let’s cross the borders between dance styles, while honoring their evolution, similarities and differences. Let’s be Bad Ass and explore what we can learn from each other and celebrate the richness of Afrocentric body movement and language.
REGISTER
PRICING
LEVELS
Each track can have an optional Lindy Hop add-on for Friday evening.
JAM STARTER
You are new to jazz dancing or you have had only a couple of months of classes. You want to have fun and explore cool steps, rhythms and music in depth while being challenged by cool teachers.
What you get:
- 6 hours Solo classes
- 3 LIVE music parties
KICK ASS
KICK ASS is recommended for INTERMEDIATE or INTERMEDIATE+ dancers. You dance Authentic Jazz for at least 2 years. You’re comfortable with weight shifts and moving through space. You’re familiar with most of the basic vocabular y, but some pieces are missing. You’re still searching to expand your knowledge on basics, transitions and body awareness. You need more guidance around improvisation and generally throughout the class, but you’re ready to push yourself outside of your comfort zone and finish the weekend like a Bad Ass. What you get:
- 8 hours Solo classes
- 3 LIVE music parties
BAZZ PRO
BAZZ PRO is recommended for ADVANCED/ADVANCED+ dancers with good body awareness, body control, and fluent improvisation skills, who want to challenge their current limits. You easily follow combinations, you’re enthusiastic about exploring intricate rhythms, techniques and movement in greater depth, while adding your own voice to it. You’re comfortable with a faster pace of learning, you’re fluent in improvisation but want to level it up like pro! What you get:
- 8 hours Solo classes
- 3 LIVE music parties
SCHEDULE
Food
HOUSING
We recommend StayOkay OOST Hostel, which is a 20 minute walk from our venue, or a 1 minute bike ride. Guests of the festival will be able to get a 10% discount using the code KZHOUSING when they book!
ARTISTS
Tyedric Hill
Tyedric Hill is an artist deeply rooted in Black cultural and social dance traditions. He explores their evolution and interconnections and as such is the perfect fit for BAZZ 2025! Inspired by his ancestors, who found solace in rhythm and movement, Tyedric carries their legacy through dance, honoring the cornerstones of Black art: personal authenticity, community, hope, and dignity. Having trained under Sugar Sullivan, Ryan Francois, Chester Whitmore, and Latasha Barnes, he consistently draws back to authentic jazz as the foundation of modern Black social dance. He is proficient in various styles, from authentic jazz and Lindy Hop to hip-hop and house, with a focus on preserving cultural lineage and personal style. Tyedric’s dedication to embodying the soulfulness of Black history is evident in his commitment to passing on the legacy of his mentors and ancestors to future generations. He is a powerful voice in the world, using his platform to honor the past while shaping the future of the global community.
Breonna Jordan
Some of Breonna’s most cherished childhood memories are of dancing at home with her siblings. Cooking, cleaning, roadtrips – music and dance was a part of everyday life. However, it wasn’t until she moved to New Orleans and experienced traditional jazz music for the first time, that she discovered her love for jazz dance!
Breonna has taught Lindy Hop and Vernacular Jazz at numerous international festivals and workshops. As a New Orleans-based instructor, she teaches at the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp, where she highlights the deep connections between music, dance, history, and authentic self expression.
Tomasa
As we are exploring the Latin Tinge in Jazz, we could not skip having an amazing Latin dancer that builds bridges between styles and is distinct with her style! Meet Tomasa.
Tomasa comes straight from the French Caribbean , more precisely from Guadeloupe. She started learning salsa at the age of 9 and has never stopped since. Specialised in salsa On2, she also draws inspiration from various dance styles, such as contemporary, jazz, Afro-Cuban, heels, street jazz, and even flamenco. These diverse influences have allowed her to develop her own unique style. Today, as a salsa dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Tomasa is recognised in Paris and internationally for her distinctive style. Based in Paris, Tomasa champions a concept she calls “Musical Movement”: body movement in service of musicality. This concept aims to find a way to express one’s musicality through movement.
Suela
Suela is a leading Afrodance pioneer of Surinamese descent. Since 2013, she has been one of the first women in the Netherlands to make Afrodance big. She has danced for artists such as Ckay, Omah Lay and Maleek Berry and gave private lessons to Doutzen Kroes.
With Afrodance and her brand AfroPumps, she travels the world to help women embrace their feminine power and sensuality through dance. In 2019, she founded AfroPumps, with which she inspires women to feel confident and powerful on the dance floor.
She currently gives weekly Afrodance lessons in Amsterdam and continues to share her passion with a growing community. We feel super excited to welcome her at BAZZ as you see she is a natural fit to our creative ideas
CONCEPTS
LINDY HOP SPECIAL
WE could not miss the chance of doing some Lindy Hop with Thy and Breonna while they are in town! The workshops are oriented towards higher level dancers. For both of the workshops you need to be comfortable with Swing Outs, Sugar Pushes, Charleston and faster tempo dancing. You should have been dancing for more than 2 years, or you have been taking unlimited classes with Swing Philosophy for at least a year. If you have less experience, but you think you can handle it, reach out to Teodora from Swing Philosophy.
BAZZ LAB
BAZZ Lab is focused on a crossover between two different dance styles. One Jazz teacher, and one teacher of another dance style will be guiding these sessions together. Let’s explore existing links between Jazz and its contemporary descendant dance styles, let’s celebrate their similarities and differences! (Included in all class passes)
BAZZ BUZZ
BAZZ Buzz is focused on YOU! This time will be dedicated to your own practice, where together with your BAZZ friends, you can go through whatever you learned throughout the weekend, or you can just jam ! In each BB session there will be a DJ & Teachers available for you to ask any questions, personal feedback or tips! You’re not obliged to ask them anything, you can also just come and hang, listen to music & grab a drink :).
Included in all class passes.
SOLIDARITY FUND
Many people in the world can’t attend such events. We would like to help them out and need your help for that! Please donate the amount that you can miss from your budget. The collected funds will be used for covering full passes for such people. If you are having financial problems and want to participate, please reach out and let’s chat, we are sure together we can figure it out!
VIBES
Videos of previous editions.