Flore started out as an athlete at a very young age and competed nationally gymnastics competitions.
As a kid, you could find Flore organizing her friends into dance routines anytime they got together.
When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said, “A dancer!”
Her passion for dancing grew and she trained in Jazz, Rock’n Roll, Salsa, Ballroom, Latin, Lindy-Hop, Boogie-Woogie, West Coast Swing.
Flore said “I fell in love with couple dancing, because I love the things you can share with people without talking. Everything is about the connection.” Flore couldn’t decide which dance she loved the most, though. She managed to dance all of them actively, and she excelled in them. “I want to do everything, try everything, be everything,” Flore said.
In 2007, she joined the ‘Feeling Dance Show’, one of the most prestigious partner dance companies in Paris, and this is where her career as a dance professional in Boogie Woogie began.
Her national breakthrough was the victory of a major French Dance TV Show with her Boogie partner Yann-Alrick Mortreuil in 2011, which led to major international showcases and starring in different movies and music videos.
Then she discovered West Coast Swing, which offered what she loved about dancing: It was a marriage between the character performance in Latin and the playfulness of swing and Lindy.
You get powerful, sexy, jazzy… and you get play. And you can dance to all styles of music. It’s versatile in a way that most styles can’t be, as some styles are attached to one kind of music. “You can be so many different characters!” Flore observed.
“It was hard to dance different characters in the beginning but then I learned that it wasn’t me, I was just playing someone. When you get that, it’s amazing, you can suddenly be everything! And you can be who you are at the same time.”
This spirit of “you can be anyone” is the spirit Flore gives to her students. It’s why she loves to teach. “I want to help you trust in yourself, trust more in your body.” She knows that it can be hard to break out of your shell and not be afraid, especially for female followers. “I love when I see dancers become ‘who they are.’”
She especially values working with students over an extended period of time. “I love it when I can coach someone and help them work on the things they are shy about. I like to study my students and help them grow.”
It is from this passion for dance and wanting to help her students “find themselves” that the Westy Solo Team project was born. An international solo troupe, a large family of mutual aid.