Intermediate Following

Let’s target four subtle and sneaky yet common misconceptions in and of followership. Take away a set of insightful short-cuts toward advanced follower skills, no matter what type of dancing you enjoy. Expect to leave with more clarity around your personal follow tendencies and habits, a bunch of playful ways to further develop your skills, as well as a couple of fun (new) moves to add to your vocabulary with which we’ll practice the following:

• Surrender vs. Giving Up Control
• Relaxation vs. Collapse
• Patience vs. Waiting
• Responsiveness vs. Reactivity

This is a fine-tuning for your body. It’s about creating awareness for every joint and enable different movements to accentuate the music. It’s an amazing way to organize and warm up your body, mind and soul and get comfortable for dancing.
This class includes isolations, from slow to fast, various shapes and some simple combinations. This class will also feature a couple of short improvisations to activate your imagination and experience different qualities of movement.

Did you know you can be as rooted as a mountain or as light as a cloud? That you have a big sweeping dragons tail waiting inside you, waiting to swoosh around the dancefloor? We’re going to play with our internal body mechanics to increase and decrease our inertia as follows, to add flavour and drama to the dance.

You can get a lot of richness out of softness and stillness! Sometimes less is less – by turning down the volume we begin to appreciate the whispers. Time for some deeply attentive listening, and a class that is about doing as little as possible and still calling it dancing. We’re here for a gentle time and deep focus.

How can we use simple movements in a musical way to spice up our dancing steps? We will learn to identify easy rhythmical patterns in songs and use bodymovement elements to get creative without interfering with the connection with our partner.
This class includes exercises to hear different layers of music and explicit movements to express what you hear and feel.

You’ve heard of follow voice – that following isn’t always about doing exactly what the lead says exactly when the lead says it, sometimes we want to say something too. Well, we’re going to push that all the way. Welcome to bratty following, where we have OPINIONS and we’re going to share them.

What do you do with your arms when you dance? Your hands? What if you put them on your own body sometimes? This class is for everyone who’s ever watched someone else touch themselves with confidence while dancing and thought “that could never be me”. We’re going to explore ways of using our arms and hands that fit with your own personal style.

Let’s target another four subtle and sneaky yet common misconceptions in and of followership. Take away a set of insightful short-cuts toward advanced follower skills, no matter what type of dancing you enjoy. Expect to leave with more clarity around your personal follow tendencies and habits, a bunch of playful ways to further develop your skills, as well as a couple of fun (new) moves to add to your vocabulary with which we’ll practice the following:

• Lightness vs. Weightlessness
• Affirming vs. Interrupting
• Locking vs. Blocking
• a Strong Voice vs. a Loud Voice