Name: Blues intensive: Funky blues
Start: 2025-04-12T14:30:00+02:00
Location: Swedish Swing Society

Join us for a deep-dive into funky blues!
Funky blues is a dance style rooted in blues dancing but influenced by the upbeat, rhythmic, and syncopated elements of funk music. It combines the grounded, soulful movements of traditional blues dancing with playful, dynamic accents and sharper body isolations that reflect the funk groove.
The style encourages dancers to experiment with musicality, using hits, breaks, and syncopation in the music to guide creative movement. Funky Blues often incorporates a lot of attitude and personality, with room for improvisation, individuality, and a touch of sass. It's a fun, energetic, and expressive way to connect with funk-inspired blues music.
This workshop is aimed at intermediate dancers and up. We have a beginner intensive in the morning for newer dancers.
Sign up here: https://dans.se/sss/shop/new?event=237498
or find all our classes and workshops on our website: https://swedishswing.se/ga-kurs
Blues is a family of african-american dances with varied rhythms, speeds and expresssion, and can be danced both partnered and solo. Most of them are danced primarily in closed embrace and are very focused on the connection between the dancers, while leaving plenty of room for individual expression and creativity.
During these classes we will follow the ELEF format - everybody leads, everybody follows, meaning you will learn both roles. As a bonus there are never any empty spots in the rotation. ;)
SCHEDULE
14:30-18:00 funky blues classes
20:00-01:00 social dance (included!)
We will serve some lighter snacks during the breaks.

PRICES
350 SEK for members of Swedish Swing Society
450 SEK for non-members
Social dance
0 SEK for workshop-goers
50 SEK for members
100 SEK for non-members

MEMBERSHIP
If you want to become a member, follow the link below. Membership is 300 SEK per year.
https://dans.se/sss/mship/new
TEACHERS
Nikola Liptakova Vallmostrand
Clara Lynn