Finding a Connection, Part II: Rumba
- writen by: Sarah Calhoun
- last edited: 16 March 2008 at 2:21pm
Event Dates
from 5:45-7pm
Occurs...
through
Sun, 25 May 2008
Instructor: Sarah Calhoun
Enrollment: limit 20 (this is a group class)
Tuition: $65/person (Part II only)
OR $100/person (Part I & Part II)
Four Weeks of 75-Minute Group Classes
Offered by: Art of Dance Ballroom Dance School
Pre-registration is required. Contact the Instructor to reserve space in this class, regardless of whether you have already been taking classes or Private Lessons with this instructor.
You do not need to enroll with a partner. Expect frequent partner changes and numerous group activities and exercises.
This Group Class will meet each Sunday from 5:45 - 7:00 pm, beginning 4 May 2008 and running until 25 May 2008, for a total of four sessions. It is a continuation of Finding a Connection, Part I: West Coast Swing. You can register for one or both sessions. While each Part deals with a different dance, the underlying principles will flow from session to session and inform each other.
In these two 75-minute classes meeting for a total of four sessions each (eight in total), we will discover how to produce a solid lead/follow connection. Do you ever walk out on the dance floor and discover that you’re actually dancing in front of and not with your partner? A strong connection will take new the Rumba moves that we will be learning (including spins, passes, and breaks) and make them look great!
These same principles are portable to all other dances. Discovering how you hold your own body and how it interacts with a partner will change the way you dance forever!
The class will emphasize creating a solid constant connection between the lead and follow and how to use that connection throughout the entire dance and in every move that we create! In addition to new Rumba moves and technique, we will be learning how two bodies create motion together.
Improve your own balance and learn to recognize how each partner influences the balance of the other. Develop an understanding of how you move your own body and how those movements are felt and interpreted by your partner. (Applies to leads and follows alike.) Build the fundamentals for creating good partner connections and for leading and following well. Exercise those fundamentals to invent your own moves!
This class is intended for people with some experience with partner dancing or Rumba and will move at an appropriate pace. Experienced dancers, enroll to improve your sense of partner connection and to refine your body action and basics!
You do not need to enroll with a partner. Expect frequent partner changes and numerous group activities and exercises.
Pre-registration is required. Contact the Instructor to reserve space in this class.
Held at:
PilateSpa
2045 Atwood Avenue
Suite 107
Madison, WI 53704
(608) 244-0402
( map | website )
PilateSpa is easily accessible (located on Atwood Ave. near the Barrymore and Monty’s) with plenty of free and well-lighted parking.
PilateSpa is a Pilates and dance studio. They have a floating bamboo floor–approximately 1000 square feet–with plenty of mirrors and ambient lighting. There are two bathrooms and a small sitting/kitchen area in the front of the studio.
From East Washington Ave. (Hwy 151), turn onto South 1st St.
Cross over the train tracks, and then turn left onto Winnebago St.
At the next light, turn right onto Atwood Ave.
Go a block and a half (past Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace).
You will see a large sand-colored building (Kennedy Place).
Turn right into the parking lot (next to Milio’s) - you are there!
The entrance to PilateSpa is located on the parking lot side of the building near Good N Loud Music.
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