Jaden Pfeiffer & Mackenzie Keister

Jaden Pfeiffer and Kenzie Keister are a dynamic dance partnership known in the West Coast Swing and Country dance worlds for their skill, competitive success, and growing influence.

Blending strong technical training with a passion for performance and teaching, they have found success across multiple competitive divisions. After winning the Rising Star Division at The Open Swing Dance Championships in 2023, they placed top 5 and 3 in the Classic Division during the 2024 NASDE season. They debuted in Showcase at The Open 2024, earning 6th place, and followed up with 2nd place and the “People’s Choice” award in the 2025 Showcase Division.

As an emerging force in West Coast Swing, Jaden and Kenzie represent the next generation of WSDC Champions, continually pushing creative and competitive boundaries in both West Coast Swing and Country Swing.

Joshua Schubert & Maïna Vila Cobarsi

Joshua is a dynamic and empathetic dance teacher from Freiburg. He has been teaching West Coast Swing for over 10 years and has been the owner of a WCS dance school for 7 years, which has played a key role in building up the Freiburg community. He teaches with humor and a great deal of attention to detail an to each individual dancer. His friendly manner and technical teaching promise a great experience. You can expect a perfect mix of technical content, exciting concepts, and thrilling figures.

Maïna has been passionate about dance from an early age, practicing tap and solo dances. She discovered West Coast Swing in 2013 in Rouen and has been involved in events ever since. Inspired by various champions, she has developed her own style, with elegance, grace, and musicality. Maïna often stood out in competition in the All Stars division and recently joined the Champion category. She continues to train regularly to perfect her skills. In parallel, she co-created an online Lady Styling course platform with Angélique Pernotte in August 2023, with the aim of helping dancers in their personal growth and in embracing their femininity. She is also contributes to the development of her local community, organizing workshops and her annual event, “Normandie On West”.

Evgenia Itkina & Clement Turpain

Clevi - Clem & Evi - are two passionate West Coast Swing dancers based in Berlin. With a decade of experience each, they have joined forces to teach and dance together. Clement, an All-Star Division leader and an Advanced Division follower, brings a unique sense of musicality and creativity to the dance floor with his decade of musical studies and his background in solo dances like Ballet, Hip-Hop, and Contemporary. 

Evi, an All-Star Division follower with a professional contemporary dance background and experience in Ballet, Jazz, and Modern dance, adds her unique flavor to WCS. 

Clem & Evi love communication and connection in WCS, which allow them to co-create and express the music both as individual dancers and as a couple.

They also love choreographies and achieved a 5th place in the Rising Star division at the Open 2023, as well as a 1st place at Global Grand Prix 2023 and French Open 2024.

Marvin Feja

Event Director / Owner

TJ Bednash

MC

Marc Heldt

Head Judge