About us:

Oleg Astakhov and Jennifer    Kanchukova are top professional dance   couple in International Latin. They started   dancing when they were children.  They   have achieved great  success    with their   previous partners, Oleg  being   Ukrainian   National Youth champion.

During their  partnership together  in   the United States, they have achived high   results such as: in 2008 - Professional   Rising   Star 3rd place at recent event the      California    Open Championships. In 2007 -   they were    also winners of Pacific  Dancesport Championships, California  Starball Championships, San Diego Dancesport Championships, and finalists of other competitions on the West coast such as San Francisco Open Dancesport Championships and Nevada Starball Championships.

Oleg and Jennifer after years of   teaching have developed unique   teaching   methods to provide the most   fun,   pleasant and themost effective way   to   learn dancing for everybody from  very   beginners to the most advanced  students.

Oleg and Jennifer's teaching     methods include:

     I. Specially choreographed routine

     II. Technique:

     1) Musicality;

                                        2) Partnering;

                                        3) Picture/Lines;

                                        4) Dynamics (power and speed)

                                      III. Performance and styling