Swing Sampler Class
- writen by: Sarah Calhoun
- last edited: 17 October 2007 at 10:23pm
Event Dates
from 5:45-7pm
Occurs...
through
Sun, 09 December 2007
Instructor: Sarah Calhoun
Enrollment: limit 20 (this is a group class)
Tuition: $100/person (for all eight sessions)
Eight Weeks of 75-Minute Group Classes
Offered by: the 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.
In October, the Art of Dance will no longer have its downtown Madison location. Instead, attend the studio’s classes held at wonderful facilities in the Madison area. See “Held At” (below).
This Group Class will meet each Sunday from 5:45-7:00 pm beginning 21 October 2007 and running until 9 December 2007, for a total of eight sessions.
In this Swing Sampler Class, we will be exploring three styles: East Coast Swing, Lindy Hop, and West Coast Swing. While all three swing styles have their roots in the explosion of Jazz music in the 1920s, they have developed in very different ways and have their own distinct stylings.
In this 75-minute class meeting for a total of eight sessions, you will learn energetic, fluid, compact (and sometimes sultry!) swing dancing in all three styles, featuring many spins, turns, and changes of place. In addition, we will work with musicality and explore ways to play with breaks in the music.
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!
This class assumes participants have little to no experince with leading, following, partner dancing in general (swing dancing specifically) and will move at a pace appropriate for New Dancers.
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.