Taina Kortelainen
Arsenal Football Club, Diamond Club event , LondonMacmillan Cancer Support , fund raising event, Edinburgh City of London Police Dinner Dance and Awards NightLawrence Dallaglio Benefit Ball , Grosvenor House, Park Lane Workshops and performances at Cabinet War Rooms for the 1940s Dance Nights
1920s workshops and performances for the Flappers and Follies Summer Party at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Featured dancer in The Mint ITV
Featured dancer in Foyles War
Jive expert & featured dancer in BBC 1, Strictly Come Dancing
Featured dancer in Blue Peter
Jive Co-ordinator and dancer in George Michael's 'Round Here' -music video
Featured dancer in BBC 2 Glenn Miller Documentary
Dancer in the Generation Game
Dancer in Blue Peter
Let's Make a Song & Dance , Becks TheatreCabarets Pigalle Club , Piccadilly London
Featured dancer in the Glenn Miller Concert , Princes Theatre, Torquay
Featured dancer in the show In the Mood for Valentine's , Royal Centre Nottingham
Featured dancer at Argentine Tango show with Trio Corazon
Featured dancer in the show "Legend of Sinatra" through spring and autumn 2001 featuring Gary Williams and David Jacobs.
Featured dancer in the show "At the Hop" - part of the Festival of Britain
Featured dancer in the show "Journey through Jazz"
Boogie-Woogie: - Two times Finnish Champion (1998 & 1999) (1996) (1999) 8th In Boogie Dancing World Cup (1999) Lindy Hop: 7th in World Championships (1998) - UK Open Jive Championships 2001 - Lindy Hop division winner UK Open Lindy Hop Champion (2000 )Rock'n'Roll: 3rd in D-class in Finland (1998) Jive : Jive Masters 2nd place, London (2004) Blues: American Champion (1999)
Swing competition, Long Tall Ernie, Zurich
Finland : Kunkkukisa 4 consecutive years Portsmouth England Modern Jive Competition Herrang Dance Camp Sweden Fast-feet competition in Boogie-Woogie & Lindy Hop
Blackpool England Modern Jive Competition
Innocent Fruits Fete , Regents Park, LondonInternational Piano Boogie Festival , Fontmell Magna, 3 years Flight to the Past, Blenheim Palace Cabinet War Rooms VJ Day Celebrations Lord Mayor's New Year's Parade , London Capital Age Day, LondonWest End Live , Leicester Square London, 3 yearsPerformance at The 6th Circus Space Festival
Junior King's School, Canterbur y,
Canonbury Primary School , Essendine School St John's Walham Green CE Primary School Year 3&4Mellow Lane School Aldenham School Charleton Special Needs School Wells Primary School The Sacred Heart Language College, several workshops St John's Walham Green CE Primary School, swingdance workshop for Years 3 and 4
Teaching children at the Imperial War Museum at the 1940's week Teaching children in Harca Youth Centre , London
Teacher in Herrang Dance Camp , Sweden July, 4 years
Dance Holidays Torrox, Spain
Swing Spring, Finland
Jive Addiction
London Balboa Festival, 3 years
Teacher in Santa Susana, Spain May, 2 years
Teacher at Dance Manhattan and Swing 46, New York , USA
Teacher at Ragtime weekend, Toronto , Canada
Teacher in Barcelona , Spain
Teaching at an international dance camp in Bergen Norway, 6 years . Teaching children 5-10 year olds
Jive Co-ordinator and dancer in George Michael's 'Round Here' -music video
50's-dance specialist in the musical Grease in Finland
Choreographer for the show "Ignite”
Lecture for Internation Dance Teachers' Association Teacher and writer of the material for the "new teachers course" in Boogie-Woogie on four separate occasions in 1998 and 1999 in Finland.
Co-organiser: Zurich West Coast Swing Dance Camp
Co-organiser: Zurich Balboa & WCS Dance Camp
Organiser, adjudicator, music selection: Stompin's Swing for the Crown
Organiser, adjudicator, music selection: United Kingdom Open Lindy Hop Championships .
President of a non-profit dance organization Rock'n'Roll Dance Club Comets in 1999 in Finland. Member of the board of directors in Rock'n'Roll Dance Club Comets 1996-1999. Editor of the Comets magazine in 1996.
