Patricio (he/him) is a versatile and dynamic swing dancer, teacher, and choreographer from Chile; Who knows how to lead and follow every main jazz/swing dances: Collegiate Shag, Lindy Hop, St. Louis Shag, Rock’n Roll/Boogie Woogie, Balboa/Bal-Swing, and even specific ones like Rockabilly Jive. His main focus as a teacher is to develop social dancers with excellent technique. Respecting the original dancers, moves, and figures, to transmit the aesthetic of each dance while also being creative in the use of the content. His journey started through the music of his childhood (Jazz, Funk, R&B, Soul, Electronic, and more), he developed his love for dancing. He started in 2011 with African Dance and Dancehall; but in 2014 he discovered Lindy Hop and fell in love with it; But it was really in 2016 that his passion for Swing Dance really took off: He started researching the other swing/jazz styles, and buying VHS/DVD’s lessons from Marcus & Bärbl to learn Boogie Woogie and more. His passion led him to start his dance school “Groove That Swing”, which has been active since 2018, where each month he teaches regularly Collegiate Shag, Balboa, Rock’n Roll/Boogie Woogie, Lindy Hop, St. Louis Shag, Soul (Carolina Shag, Smooth/Soul Lindy), Rockabilly Jive, and Solo Jazz Dance/Charleston. To grow a scene of dancers as versatiles as he is (most of his students know more than one style). At the same time he started traveling to many different events to learn more, bringing the new styles to Chile and adding them into their school’s repertoire. In the competition field he has obtained achievements and awards internationally in a few years, like: 1° in Open Strictly Lindy (ILHC World Finals), 1° Boogie Woogie M&M (México), 1° in Shag M&M (BCN Shag Festival), and more than 25 medals/trophies (mostly Shag) and countless “Finals” in different swing dances. By not having a regular dance partner to teach or compete with, he has developed skills on both Lead/Follow dancing, becoming an expert in competing with no-regular-partner but also teaching on both roles by himself. Having knowledge of African-American Vernacular Jazz Dance wider than just jazz-swing era dances (Street Dances like Locking, Waacking, Old Way Vogue) is a big plus to the understanding of quality of movement, expression, musicality, technique and the art of improvisation.