Each class learn a sequence you can loop or vary for a whole song, while also growing towards playfully improvising together. Video class summaries so you can review any time.
Young? Old? Highly trained? Never trained? All welcome. Concerned class will be too hard? Too easy? Contact us or just come try. Most classes are semi-customized – so everyone works at a level right for them.
$80 for 10 hours (Around the World for $80), $135 for 20 hours (“Frequent Flyer”), or:
$10 per destination (1 hour class), $15 for 2 hours the same evening, $20 for 3-5 hours the same evening.
$10 for 2 hours if only coming to Dance Freedom.
Classes:
Dovercourt House, 3rd floor. (Sorry – no elevator.)
Tuesdays: 7-8 pm || 8-9 pm…
(6-7 pm = Floor Flow Floor-Play. 9-11 = Dance Freedom.)
March 19: Swing || West Coast Swing
March 26: Waltz || Foxtrot and Polka
April 2: Cuban Rumba vs Ballroom Rumba || Cha Cha & Merengue
April 9: closed
April 16: Country Two-Step || Folk Dances – Greece/Turkey, Hungary, Sweden
April 23: Argentine Tango || India* – Kathak
April 30: Traditional South African** || Contemporary African**
May 7: closed
May 14: Spain – Paso Doble || Scotland Cèilidh + Irish Cèili
May 21: Salsa || Salsa Rueda
May 28: Contact Improv || Square Dance
June 4: Brazil – Samba + Forro || Samba Parades and Rodas
* with guest teacher Malini
** with guest teacher Mafa
(Missing a destination? Let us know where you want to go! We are exploring the possibility of having a member of a First Nations community come and teach. More on that below.)
Feels like too much of a whirlwind? We also love slow culture – taking things slow – but people with 3 left feet who seemed almost hopeless at the start of these classes have learned the essence of each dance and some very cool moves. I expect you will be similarly delightfully surprised. (We’ll go into more depth in a single style next round – students’ choice.)
You can choose to go only to specific “destinations”, but the intention is to grow a range of complementary skills that gradually grow freedom and fun on the dance floor to any music, so we recommend the complete journey.
Partner not required.
No tax, no ticket fee. Money back guarantee.
Package: any 10 classes: $80 per person.
Frequent Flyer: 20 classes: $135.
Deluxe: Private Lesson – add $60
Individual stops: $10 per 1-hour class. $15 for 2 hours the same evening, $20 for 3 or more hours.
Practice Sessions + Parties:
* 9-11 pm. Open Social / Open Studio. Feel free to work what you’ve learned in these classes or elsewhere, or work on your own performance. Cameras allowed in back third. Diverse music – requests possible.
* Saturday March 30, 3-5 pm @ the exquisite Windrush Estate Winery, $35. $15 for Dovercourt students. (The party will almost certainly continue – either at the venue or at the teachers’ house.)
E-transfer is best – to dance ‘ať’ dancershouse.com – but you are welcome to pay by credit card if that’s better for you: https://buy.stripe.com/bIY6secYLc72gFy5kx. You can change the price to match your order. (Stripe is the payment processor used in the background by amazon and eventbrite, etc.)
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The Politics of Dancing:
Some ballroom versions of dances from around the world are distortions from the originals. We’ll mostly attempt to honour the originals – and how they have continued to evolve – while also appreciating the best of the ballroom versions. (More on this and related issues at dancershouse.com/politics.)
Also:
We are exploring the possibility of having a member of a First Nations community come and teach. I have been invited to go – perhaps with a few others, but not a whole class at this time – to a powwow. We would not be dancing to most dances, but to intertribal dances and perhaps round dances. If this is of interest to you, let me know.
And:
For the partner dances: Not attracted to the binary of lead and follow? Learn the freedoms of following and the ways good leaders follow the follower. Choose either role, or learn to switch between roles. Also get an intro to a dance style where both people are following – following the movement of their shared centre of gravity, and both leading – free to “follow an impulse”, a.k.a. lead at any time.
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