About Olga

Olga was born into a family of teachers and since early years has been an energetic live wire – studying music, doing athletics, martial arts and gymnastics. In 2007 she was introduced to Lindy Hop and this is where the real passion story begins. She got dance hooked and started to explore more of the dance world by getting into Blues and later Balboa. She has been actively travelling the globe in pursuit of more opportunities to dance, learn and compete. Later she began to share her love for swing music and dance by teaching. Now Olga is the international balboa instructor, teaching solo and couple Balboa all over the world.

At her classes she pays a lot of attention to getting the students interested and involved by giving challenging and fun tasks, working both on technique and musicality and infecting them even more with the love of dancing. For the time being she is passionately developing a new direction of swing dance practices – iSoloBalboa – offline and online solo classes for balboa leaders and followers which aim at polishing up technique and developing creativity and musicality.

Olga Marina, photo by Ksenia Ryzhkova
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2025

February 

1-9, Breezy Balboa, Thailand

21-23, Bal’Damn, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

March 

14-16, Roma Balboa Weekend, Italy

28-30, Montpellier Balboa Rendez-Vous, France

April

3-6 Asia Balboa Exchange, Seoul, Korea (with Gio Olla)

11-13, MY Balboa Weekend, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

25 – 27, Swingcake Tübingen, Balboa and Slow Balboa, Germany

May 

1-4, Sitges Balboa Beach, Spain

9-11, Balboa in Bloom, Stockholm, Sweden

15-18, Valencia Balboa Festival, Spain

29 – June 2, Sunny Slide Fest, Silvi Marina, Italy

June

13-15, Slow Flow in Madrid, Spain

July

13-20, Studio Hop Summer Camp, France

September

11-14, Sicily Swing Fest, Catania, Italy (with Gio Olla)

26-28, Rock the Balboa, Krakow, Poland (with Gio Olla)

October

3-5 Shanghai Balboa Festival, China (with Matt Mitchel)

November

Oct, 31 – Nov 2 – Savoie Balboa Festival, France

14-16, Stardust Slow Balboa Weekend, Washington, USA

December

26-31, The Snowball, Stockholm, Sweden