WEST COAST SWING with AUSTIN KOIS and ESTELLE BONNAIRE
WEST COAST SWING with AUSTIN KOIS and ESTELLE BONNAIRE of MISSION CITY SWING
Saturday August 19
11:15-12:15pm
Yerba Buena Gardens (East Plaza)
Mission City Swing aspires to foster an inclusive and cohesive community of West Coast Swing dancers in San Francisco and to raise the quality of dancing throughout the Bay Area through instruction and social dancing.
Austin Kois is a Champion level West Coast Swing dancer and a local of the San Francisco Bay Area. Austin began teaching professionally in 2017, eventually opening his own weekly dance in Sonoma County in 2018 and teaching across the country and world at competitive events and workshop weekends. In 2022, he joined the Mission City Swing teaching staff and leadership team as Head of Education. In 2023 Austin was inducted into the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame in the Nova Star category.
Estelle Bonnaire began her dance journey at age 13 when she discovered Lindy Hop. At 18, she embarked across the world to learn as much about the dance as possible, eventually discovering her favorite dance, West Coast Swing. It melds all her favorite elements—smoothness, grace, and technique—with her love of swing.
She continues to travel the world, sharing her passion with everyone she meets. Her joyful personality, easy-going and open attitude, and skillful reduction of hard ideas to easily understandable concepts make her a renowned teacher. These qualities make her workshops and classes leave her students with greater confidence and
Learn more about West Coast Swing and Mission City Swing.
