Victoria Windholtz
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[edit] Introduction
Victoria Windholtz was an expert in Chen style tai chi chuan. She was a teacher, a professional Coach in France and internationally, a performer, and a choreographer. She was born in Spain, December 2nd, 1971.
[edit] Biography
She started to practice martial arts ( Wushu in Chinese) intensively from 1981. She studied Taekwondo, then Chinese Martial Arts and Tai chi from the age of 18 and trained at the highest level in China. She is an ex-athlete of the French National Team of Wushu.
In 2001, she created her own school of Tai chi in Paris, ESSENCE[[1]], as a fruit of her constant research. She developed an innovative perspective, in which Tai chi is considered for the first time as a true art, a performance art, a movement art. This open approach links it to other artistic disciplines, like contemporary dance.
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[edit] Her teachers
- Zhan Xiao Yan, Wushu expert, seven times China national champion and Coach of the French National Team of Wushu.
- Chen Xiao Wang, 19th generation inheritor of Chen style Tai chi.
[edit] Titles
- 5 titles of French National Champion of Tai chi between 2000 and 2003
- 4 titles of European Champion of Chen style Tai chi in 2002 (Denmark)
- Awarded by the French Ministry of Sports in January 2004
