Shimmy Guest Instructors

AnNIE TRUDEAU - MontreaL

Before discovering Lindy Hop, Annie was a competitive gymnast and later earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 2004 in Montréal (Canada), where she is a native. Seven years after her very first rock steps, she decided to fully dive into the world of Lindy Hop and has never looked back.

With 26 years of experience as a dancer, Annie is also a mom of two girls and a co-founder of Studio 88 Swing in Montréal, which she ran for 16 years. She has traveled the world to teach and share her love of dance, judged major competitions, choreographed for Cirque du Soleil, and performed on numerous Canadian TV shows.

Outside of dance, Annie is self-taught in the art of laser cutting and engraving and runs her own Etsy shop.

Annie has a special love for air steps. She loves to fly—and even more, to help others learn how to fly safely and confidently through this very program: Lindy Air.

Here are a few titles she feels proud of:
Normalizer ILHC 2026 - 1st place with Rafał  Pustelny.
Frankie 95 Hellzapoppin' contest in NYC - 1st place
ILHC Showcase 2008 to 2013 inclusively - that's 6 gold medals
As a Coach: Team SAF Squad ILHC 1st place 2010-2011-2014 and multiple times Canadian champions.

Ramsès Ntibushitse - Montreal

Bio coming soon!

ALICE BOURGASSER - Montreal

Alice Bourgasser was trained at National Choreographic Center of Roubaix (France) as an interpreter and contemporary dance teacher, between 2013 and 2016. Graduated in dance from the University of Lille 3 and from the « Pôle Supérieur de Musique et de Danse du Nord Pas-de-Calais », she moves to Montreal in 2016 to start a master thesis in dance at UQAM (Quebec University in Montreal). Her research master’s degree focuses on Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers’ dancing, lindy-hop pioneer dancers. Since 2016, Alice is practicing and teaching both contemporary and vernacular jazz (mostly solo jazz and lindy-hop) in Montreal. She started the swing contest circuit since 2017 and won several medals in both lindy-hop (Canadian Champion 2023 and 2024, 1st strictly all-star division ILHC 2024) and solo jazz (2nd all star solo jazz ILHC 2023, 2nd advanced division at Stompology 2023). In 2021, Alice has been accepted for a doctorate in the study and practice of the arts (DEPA) in UQAM. She currently continues her journey of understanding African-American jazz culture through a research-creation project.

michel campeau - Montreal

Michel Campeau studied broadcasting at the Cité Collégiale in Ottawa. At the same time, he discovered vernacular jazz dances in a local scene and gradually migrated towards a career as a dancer. Since 2018, he has taught, coached and performed vernacular jazz dances full-time, particularly solo jazz and lindy-hop. In 2024, he won for the second year in a row with his partner Alice Bourgasser the title of Canadian Champion as well as 1st place strictly all star at the international lindy-hop championships (ILHC) in Harlem. He travels to several continents (Europe, America, Asia) to teach and perform these dances. At the same time, he developed his career as an interdisciplinary artist by participating in different productions in the music and circus world (CampShow 2024, 2023; Camping, 2021).