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Join us in celebrating our 15th anniversary as a dance organization. We're celebrating with a day of workshops, live music, and late night dancing. We're excited to have Robin Chow (Seattle) teach two workshops on Blues and Slow Lindy in the afternoon. The Hot Lovin' Jazz Babies (Portland) will be playing the tunes for the evening dance and we'll have DJed music for the late night dance.Schedule:
2:30 - 3:45 PM: Workshop 1 - Blues for Beginners, Everybody leads, Everybody Follows (ELEF)
In this all-levels workshop, we go on a fundamentals journey of blues dancing - its culture, music and dance aesthetics. You’ll be shown what makes blues dancing blues, and get insight and practice into a developing the skills to being a blues dancer!
4:00 - 5:15 PM: Workshop 2 - Swing & Blues - Beyond The Basics (ELEF)
In this workshop, we’ll start with some common swing dancing movements, and take you on a musicality and cultural-based journey of understanding the foundations of those movements. We’ll dive into how that is connected to and grew out of blues dancing, and explore the similarities and differences. You’ll get to practice and play with moves and movements both familiar and new, and we’ll show you different approaches for how to change them to fit different music styles and aesthetics.
7:00 - 8:00 PM: Beginner Lindy Hop Lesson
8:00 - 10:30 PM: Evening dance with live music
10:30 - 11:00 PM: Break with DJed music
11:00 PM - 1:00 AM: Late night dance with DJed swing and jazzy blues music
Workshop Cost**: $20 for one, $30 for both
Dance Admission: $15-20, sliding scale
Student price: $0-20, sliding scale
Late night admission: $5
*We will be closing the doors at 11:30pm; no new attendees will be admitted. Please make sure if you need to leave and come back, you have a way back in.
**We will never turn anyone away for lack of funds- please join us and pay what you can (even if that is $0)
Due to the current COVID-19 surge, we encourage attendees to wear masks. There will be masks available at the door.
Open to all ages. Individuals and partners welcome. Volunteer opportunities available.
Photo credit: Michael Colgrove
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
223 SW 2nd St., Corvallis, OR, United States, Oregon 97330
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