What: and afternoon of Lindy Hop & Balboa workshops for intermediate dancers
Where: RVA Swing 6114C Lakeside Ave
Pre-requisites: must have completed Lindy 2A to take the Lindy workshop, must have taken at least one Balboa 2 class to take the Balboa workshop
Instructors: Annabel & Michael Quisao (Washington, DC)
Cost: sliding scale of $15 - $70 (choose your price at registration)
Cost: sliding scale of $15 - $70 (choose your price at registration)
any workshop registration includes the dance later that evening
Schedule
12:30pm - doors open
1pm - Workshop 1 - Intermediate Lindy Hop
3pm - 30 min snack/rest break
3:30pm - Workshop 2 - Intermediate Balboa
5:30pm - dinner break
6:30pm - doors open for the dance
7pm - drop-in beginner lesson with RVA Swing staff (included)
8pm - DJ'd social dancing (included)
Questions? Email the studio at RVAswing@gmail.com.
About the workshops
Workshop 1 - Intermediate Lindy Hop (1pm)
In this 2 hour workshop, Annabel & Michael will share some of their favorite Lindy Hop combos and give you tips & insights on how to improve your partner connection & connection to the music.
Students taking this workshop should already be socially dancing Lindy Hop regularly. You must be able to do a Lindy Phrase (3 swingouts & a circle), basic turns, tuck turns, yo-yos and other common Lindy Hop fundamentals (RVA Swing students: must have minimum completed Lindy 2A)
Workshop 2 - Intermediate Balboa (3:30pm)
Michael & Annabel will explore concepts in bal-swing in this 2 hr workshop. As always, they will give you tools for partner communication, musicality and most importantly having FUN on the social floor.
Students taking this workshop should already be socially dancing Balboa regularly. You must be able to do uphold & downhold basics, common pure bal ad-libs (paddles, scoots, etc), as well as demonstrate common bal-swing figures like lollies, toss-outs and out&ins. (RVA Swing students: this means you need have already taken some Balboa 2 classes)
You can register for one or both workshops.
About your instructors:
Annabel Quisao is known far and wide for her huge grins and prodigious laughter on the dance floor. Always a student of music and a lover of swinging jazz, she was addicted to the communication and spontaneity of Lindy Hop upon her first exposure to it in 2003 at Colgate University. She continued to delve into swing dancing while at Penn State where she was also introduced to Balboa, Blues dancing, and Collegiate Shag. Through the years, she has social danced, taught, and competed in equal measure. She enjoys the challenge and camaraderie of competition, taking home top prizes in such events as the International Lindy Hop Championships, All Balboa Weekend, and the California Balboa Classic. Her enthusiasm for teaching began even earlier, first as a music theory instructor, and then as a swing dance instructor and curriculum developer in her local scenes from Penn State to Memphis to Boston to Washington, DC. In her teaching, Annabel emphasizes technique and critical thinking to give students the tools to explore their own abilities, inspire their partners, and have a good time!
After growing up as a wallflower at school dances, Michael Quisao went to his first swing dance in 2006 and has been captivated by social dancing ever since. His love of swing music and social dancing has taken him across the country to dance, compete, and DJ swing music; he strives to share the joys of swing dance and swinging rhythm with everybody he meets.
Michael believes that the music is the heart of the dance and that attentive partnership and comfortable technique are the keys that unlock the door to exhilarating and creative dances.
Walk-in registration will also be available at the door, space and role-balance permitting. Advance registration is always best!
