Developing dancing talents

Optimus Plesni Klub was founded by Rade Janjic in 2008. The dance club’s goal is to train competitive couples at an international level and popularise competitive dancing in Croatia. The club is very successful and well-known, ancers regularly appear in the popular TV show, Dancing With the Stars (Ples sa zvijezdama).

Six couples are dancing professionally, one dancer came from Hungary (Viktor Szabó), moved to Zagreb, Croatia and has been member of the club for more than 4 years. Apart from those six couples, there are many children involved. They are the next generation, so the club takes special care of them. These children have just started to compete but you can already find national champions among them.

In Croatia the club is very successful and well-known. Dancers regularly appear in the popular TV show, Dancing With the Stars (Ples sa zvijezdama). Istvan Varga, Ana Herceg, Damir Horvatincic and Robert Schubert are all winners of the show and members of the club. Marko Herceg and Marija Santek also come from the club. The head coach of the club is Rade Janjic, who started to coach the couples long before the club was founded.

To maintain continuous skill development of the couples, the club regularly invites foreign instructors. These dance masters are well-known internationally: Andrej Skufca (Slovenia), Fredi Novak (Slovenia), Pietro Braga (Italy), Carol MacRaild (England). Apart from trainings and lessons, the couples also take part at international workshops in Italy and Slovenia.

Aims of the club:

• to maintain and develop the level of dancing

• successful results nationally and  internationally

• to train the new generation for international competitions

• to popularize the culture of dancing in Croatia

• to attend national and international shows