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Biography:
Sabine is Danish (with Danish parents) but is often mistaken for being Latin or south European
because of her looks and dance style - and foreign countries are also to be tracked in her genes
and have influenced her upbringing.
Sabine is from a family with self owned dancing school, Gottliebsen Dancing Institute, which was
situated at Falkoner Allé, Frederiksberg (DK), owned by her great-grandmothers sister
Johanne Gottliebsen. Here Sabines mother and her siblings was taught ballroom dances,
acrobatics and ballet until Johanne Gottliebsen retired and had to close the school before the
birth of Sabine.
Obviously with this background her mother sent her to dance classes already beofre the age of 5.
Education:
Sabine is a certified Coach (life-coach) from Mindjuice in Copenhagen.
Earlier on she was educated as a fashion designer from Hellerup Textile Academy, an international
business oriented and wide fashion education. Before that she took 1 year fashion design study in France.
Sabine started dancing Salsa in 1999 and started her own companies Salsabine
and Salsakurser I/S in 2005.
Sabine danses ALL salsa genres:
L.A.Salsa (On1), N.Y.Salsa (On2/also called Mambo), Cuban Salsa, Rueda de Casino and Cuban Son.
Through her childhood and teens she danced jazz ballet, street dance, hip-hop and did gymnastics.
After starting Salsa dancing she could add more to the list: Bachata, Merengue, Kizomba, Reggaeton,
Cha-Cha-Cha, belly dancing and Samba.
In 2010 Sabine also became a certified Zumba-instructor and did Zumba classes
for about 1 year, among others for the biggest hospital in Denmark, Rigshospitalet.
Her education in Salsa dancing & her knowledge here-of was founded through her numberious
Salsa travels which includes both classes, workshops and private lessons
at the worlds best & most acknowledged Salsa instructors from
New York, L.A., London, Puerto Rico and Cuba, both at their own dance schools and at
a lot of Salsa congresses all over Europe - and many visits to salsa clubs around the world.
Salsa came into her life:
Exactly when starting the studies in Denmark salsa came into her life.
She was attracted from the first moment. First and foremost because of the energetic and warmblooded
latin rhythms that had always captured her, although never having heard real salsa music before.
On top of that she was introduced to a kind and socially
outgoing environment, including classes, social gatherings,
and an attractive night club environment where it was accepted to be yourself and where it was fascinating
to fell how everybody came out to have fun, be present, bond and dance.
The environment also made room for different nationalities, ages and different types of people.
It became a whole new lifestyle of hers and made Sabine start a dancing career.
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Dance Education:
Sabine has taken classes with:
Eddie Torres (N.Y.), Yamulee (N.Y.), Santo Rico (N.Y.),
Baila Society/BASO (N.Y.), Griselle Ponce (N.Y.) Vasquez-brødrene (L.A./Mexico), Alex de Silva
(L.A.) - known from the American tv programme "So You think You can Dance", Juan Matos (N.Y./Milano),
Amneris Martinez (Puerto Rico), Hacha & Machete (Boston),
Neeraj Maskara (Indien), Oliver Pineda - many times world champion (Australia),
Adrian & Anita (Spain), Jazzy & Alexistyle (Guatemala/Norway), Al Espinoza (L.A.),
Frankie Martinez (N.Y.), Duplessey Walker (N.Y.), Maykel Fonts (Cuba), Leon Rose(UK) among others.
To continously develop and improve her dancing and be able to give you
the best instruction and style Sabine frequently picks up new inspiration from the international
salsa scene!
Sabine has been collaborating with:
- Rigshospitalet (the biggest hospital in Denmark).
Teaching both in their fitness center for the employers and through the 1 year sponsered project
"Healthy Hospital" to improve & motivate the employers to a better health and well-being.
- Running Dinner (Events for singles)
- the Salsa community in Roskilde (Denmarks biggest Salsa Community)
- Jerome Ramos (NYC)
(grown up with/taught by Eddie Torres, the creator Salsa N.Y.Style)
- Salsa Libre (Dance Company & Salsa Club/Eventmaker, Cph.)
- Salsapictures.net
- Copenhagen Region Summerdance project (every Sumemr in Cph)
- Salsatec Latin Quarter
- Move Dancestudio
- Form & Figur Fitness
Competition results:
- Silver medal at the Open Danish Championship in Bachata 2007
- Finale position in Salsa competition (Bar Salsa, London, UK) 2006
- Gold medal at the Scandinavian Open in Salsa 2004 (Vega, Copenhagen)
- Silver medal at the Danish Salsa Championship 2004 & 2002
- "Best at improvising in Salsa" (Latin Quarter, Cph.) 2003
- Gold at the Copenhagen Salsa Championship 2002
TV/Articles
She has performed numberous shows at the salsatecs of Copenhagen
and at the annual Copenhagen Carnival.
Sabine has participated in several TV programs:
TV2 Lorry, "So You Think You Can Dance" (the Danish version) (Kanal 5), Showtime (DR1),
"Denmark dances"/Dance Dance Dance (DR2), Nynne (TV3),
Big Brother (TV3), Noerrebero TV (Channel Copenhagen).
Furthermore she has had articles in the magasines Copenhagen Post, I Form,
in B.T. and Valby Local newspaper.
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