When: Saturday Feb 22nd, 2025
Instructors: Dee Mathews
Where: RVA Swing, 6114C Lakeside Ave
Level: basic Balboa and/or Bal-Swing experience required, see class descriptions
Cost: Sliding Scale, choose your own price at registration
Pre-payment is required to reserve a spot in class. Any unsold spots will be available at the door starting at 12:30pm.
Schedule
12:30pm: Doors open
1pm- Workshop 1: Building Your Pure Bal Basic (and feeling your partner's!) (basic pure bal experience required)
(15 min break)
2:30pm - Workshop 2: Tools for Playing in Bal-Swing (basic Bal-Swing experience with lollies and out&ins required)
(15 min break)
4pm - Workshop 3: Redirect! (basic Bal-Swing experience with lollies needed)
----- Dinner break (studio closed) -----
6:30pm: Doors re-open
7pm: Beginner Swing Lesson with RVA Swing (included with any workshop registration)
8pm: Jumpin' at the Lakeside social dance (included with any workshop registration)
About the Workshops
Workshop 1: Building Your Pure Bal Basic (and Feeling your Partner's!)
1pm - 2:15pm
Pre-requisites: all dancers should already be able to do a pure bal basic in close embrace
In this 75 minute class, Dee will cover the lesser-talked-about elements of pure bal basics. There is SO much more to purebal than a box basic, y'all! Students will get practice with these new concepts and have a chance to make their own basic as well as build a shared basic within their partnerships.
Cost: Sliding Scale of $10 - $25 (choose your price at registration)
Availability:
Leads: waitlist (until more follows register)
Follows: 9 spots available
Workshop 2: Tools for Playing in Bal-Swing
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Pre-requisites: all dancers should be familiar with lollies and out&ins in Bal-Swing
It's time to open up and explore the world of bal-swing. In this 75 minute workshop, Dee will explore some more complex fun ways to gussy up your lollies and out&ins, including how to use your partner's movement to inspire play in the dance.
Cost: Sliding Scale of $10 - $25 (choose your price at registration)
Availability:
Leads: 2 spots available
Follows: 9 spots available
Workshop 3: Redirect! (Turn Mechanics)
4pm - 5:15pm
Pre-requisites: all dancers should be familiar with lollies in Bal-Swing
Turning, turning, turning into the future!😂 In this 75 minute workshop, Dee will share some turn drills that will improve your personal turn mechanics. This will build into some fun and fancy stuff that you won't want to miss!
Cost: Sliding Scale of $10 - $25 (choose your price at registration)
Availability:
Leads: 2 spots available
Follows: 8 spots available
Since then they have danced, taught, and competed all over the world. They have won balboa contests at California Balboa Classic, All Balboa Weekend, and the International Lindy Hop Championships, as well as been a mentor at The Balboa Experiment.
Dee is invested in balboa as a dance of connection, playfulness, and dynamism. They are excited to explore the fundamental mechanics of the dance and help students find new ways to be musical, listen to their partner, and find new ways to enjoy balboa.
