Katrin
Katrin has been dancing for as long as she can remember. She began by doing pliés in ballet classes, but at the age of 15 she swapped her ballet shoes for Platform Boots and went to raves in Bingen and Berlin. After trying some more dance styles she discovered Lindy Hop and Solo Jazz in 2013 and founded Swing Times together with Jesús in 2019, and they will have their own dance studio very soon! Katrin and Jesús organised their first Bottoms Up! Festival in 2025.
Jesús
Jesús was born in Spain, but rather than dancing Flamenco he fell in love with jazz music and dance (side note: He loves Flamenco too, he’s just not very good at it). He's been teaching Lindy Hop and Solo Jazz in Cologne since 2015, and in 2019 he founded Swing Times together with Katrin. With last year’s edition of Bottoms Up! he fulfilled his dream of organising a Festival. This year, he’s doing it again!
Camilla
Camilla, born and raised in Cologne, with a passion for jazz music since a very early age, sang along to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and played the saxophone while others listened to boy bands. When many years later she discovered that you can also dance to jazz, she instantly fell in love and has been doing that ever since. After volunteering at other festivals and at the 2025 edition of Bottoms Up!, she’s very happy to have the possibility to bring an event like this to her hometown!