Ok, it's finally official. Everything is in place and scheduled and approved. So here are the details for the workshop:

Friday, October 21

(BYU Campus 283 SFH)

6:00pm-6:30pm Registration and Warm-up

6:30pm-7:40pm Blues Basics

7:50pm-9:00pm Swingin’ Basics

9:00pm Dance at In Between Swing (Loctated at the Murray Arts Center, 4868 South State Street, Murray, Utah)

Saturday, October 22 (Day)

(BYU Campus East Ballroom Wilkinson Center)

9:30am-10:00am Registration/Warm-up

10:00am-11:15am Hip Stuff for Blues Dancing

11:30am-12:45pm Lindy Charleston

12:45pm-1:15pm Lunch

1:15pm-2:30pm Swinging the Blues

2:45pm-4:00pm Making Your Swing Swing

Saturday, October 22 (Evening)

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6:30pm-7:45pm Advanced Concepts for Lindy Hoppers

7:00pm-8:00pm Begginer Lindy Hop (taught by local instructors)

8:00pm-11:30pm Care Week Dance with the live tunes of the Solomon Douglas Quartet

***Please note that the workshop is progressive in nature. It is highly requested by the instructors that you participate in the Friday classes in order to participate in the Saturday classes. Please speak to someone in the club presidency if you have a conflict.***

Prices:

Friday and Saturday day Pass -> $40

Friday Pass -> $10

Advanced Class -> $8 (see class descriptions for more details)

Saturday Night Dance -> $5

Class descriptions

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Blues Basics

This class will present the basics of weight changes and traveling steps in Blues dancing. We’ll also introduce leading and following for the types of groovy movement that are critical to Blues dancing, such as the fish-tail.

Swingin’ Basics

We would love to spend hours, days even, talking about and working on all the many exciting things that can happen in the Lindy Hop basic, and even then we’d only be scratching the surface. But instead we’ll confine ourselves to this one class, which will be suitable for intermediate and advanced students, and will also serve as an intensive Lindy Hop crash course for less-experienced dancers.

Hip Stuff for Blues Dancing

This will be a class on leading and following from your center, the connection between your hips and your frame, feeling your partner’s hips and center, and the flow of energy which is central to Blues dancing. We’ll pick up on the fish-tail (which was introduced in the first class) and work out the details.

Lindy Charleston

Charleston, just like the rest of Lindy Hop, is all about the lead-follow connection rather than learned patterns and moves. In this exciting and high-energy class, you’ll learn a bunch of cool Charleston ideas for use in your Lindy Hop.

Swinging the Blues

This will be a class on mixing Blues styling into your Lindy Hop, and mixing Lindy Hop vocabulary into your Blues dancing. We’ll be exploring the sweet spot where Blues and Lindy Hop meet.

Making your Swing Swing

Do you want to get inside the music rather than just dancing to the beat? This class will cover such topics as feeling the pocket in the music and expressing the specific groove of the song you’re dancing to; achieving flow in your movement rather than just stepping through the moves; and, understanding the structure of the song.

Advanced Concepts for Lindy Hoppers

This class is limited to the top Lindy Hoppers at the workshop and is by invitation only. Attendees must have attended the rest of the workshop in order to participate. If you feel you belong in this class and were not invited, please speak to the instructors following the Saturday day workshop classes.

Sounds like a blast! Count me in for the long haul! [Emoticon not found]

Private Lessons?

Yes, I am going to mention that in the email I send out tomorrow. But Solomon and Noni will be available for private lessons starting Tuesday evening. Contact Laura (ljf8@email.byu.edu) if you are interested.

Buzz:

... Solomon and Noni will be available for private lessons starting Tuesday evening. Contact Laura (ljf8@email.byu.edu) if you are interested.

NOTE: That email address is no longer valid. Laura can be contacted at: lindysauce@gmail.com

That... was... AWESOME!

For those of you who missed out, wow... it was incredible. Thanks to Solomon and Noni for all they did. And especially thanks to Noni for that hawt accent that I got to enjoy for 10 hours.

bobthecow:

buzz. say "hawt" one more time, and you just might get voted off the island.

that's right!

I just wish it would snow more!

Not I. It gets too brown and dead looking in the winter here without snow to cover it!

yeah. i like a nice cover, but none on the streets.

bobthecow:

due to recent changes in the transportation situation, i've joined the anti-snow faction.

hippy

still think it's funny that as soon as you get it... it snows. hehe