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The Accelerator Series is DDA’s progressive 6-week West Coast Swing training program with Nik & Lily, designed for dancers who want to go beyond simply learning patterns and spend time actually developing a skill. 💥🚀Each Accelerator focuses on one specific area of your dancing for six consecutive weeks. Instead of starting over with a brand-new topic every class, you’ll build on what you learned the week before—giving you time to understand it, experiment with it, make mistakes, get feedback, and eventually make it feel like part of your dancing.
This next round is all about expression.
Learn how to create more interesting moments, make familiar patterns feel completely different, and discover where you can contribute to the dance—whether you're leading or following.
📅Wednesdays | 7:00–9:00 PM
🎯 7:00–8:30 PM — Focused Training
🎉 8:30–9:00 PM — Guided Practice & Social Dancing
Train with the same group. Build week after week. Then immediately put it into your dancing. 🔥
🎵 OCTOBER 7 — JAMS & GROOVES
Repeatable actions that look cool and feel fun.
You don’t need a completely new pattern every time you want your dancing to look more musical. 🎶
Jams & Grooves explores repeatable movements, rhythms, and actions you can pull out again and again when the music gives you an opportunity. 🔄
Learn moments created by the leader, moments created by the follower, and moments you can build together—giving both partners more ways to play without disrupting the dance. 🤝✨
Expect grooves, rhythm changes, body actions, musical moments, and plenty of ideas you can start using immediately. 😎
Find the groove. Recognize the moment. Make it yours. 🔥
⚓ NOVEMBER 18 — ANCHOR VARIETY
The best place to start expressing yourself in the dance.
Your anchor happens over and over again—which makes it one of the safest and most useful places to start experimenting. 💡
This Accelerator takes the traditional anchor and opens up all the possibilities hiding inside it. ✨
Learn how to change your rhythm, shape, timing, direction, and movement while understanding an incredibly important distinction:
When can you isolate your movement from your partner… and when can you invite them into it? 🤔
You’ll explore both independent expression and shared anchor variations so that your anchors stop feeling like the thing you do before the next pattern—and start becoming part of the dance itself. 💃🕺 Same connection. More choices. Way more personality.
🎨 JANUARY 6 — SHAPE & PLAY
Create bigger, more expressive moments together.
You already know the patterns. Now learn how to change the way they look and feel. ✨
Shape & Play explores how dancers can use body shape, direction, timing, and connection to create dramatic, playful moments inside familiar movements. 🎭
Followers will learn how to initiate shapes independently—adding their own ideas and expression without disconnecting from the partnership. 💃✨
Leaders will learn how to shape the entire partnership, creating bigger shared pictures and dramatic effects—think of moments where both dancers become part of one visual, almost like the shape of an airplane moving through space. ✈️🔥
You’ll explore follower-initiated shaping and styling, leader-directed partnership shapes, dramatic visual moments without complicated patterns, recognizing when the partnership has room to expand, and using connection to make shared shapes feel intentional. 🤝 More shape. More personality. More play. 🎉
⏸️ No December 30 start — The Accelerator Series returns January 6.
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