TORONTO edition runs Tuesdays, optional intro Feb 27, launch March 5. $80 for 10 hours, $135 for 20 hours, or $10 per class. (image will be updated). Around the World for $80.
Partner not required. Many partners rotate.
Each class learn a sequence you can loop or vary for a whole song, while also growing towards playfully improvising together. Video class summaries so you can review any time.
Young? Old? Highly trained? Never trained? Unless otherwise specified: All welcome. Concerned class will be too hard? Too easy? Contact us or just come try. Most classes are semi-customized – so everyone works at a level right for them.
For the partner dances: Not attracted to the binary of lead and follow? Learn the freedoms of following and the ways good leaders follow the follower. Choose either role, or learn to switch between roles. Also get an intro to a dance style where both people are following – following the movement of their shared centre of gravity, and both leading – free to “follow an impulse”, a.k.a. lead at any time.
Parties start with reviewing previous classes. Teacher(s) are available for help and to dance with you.
No tax, no ticket fee. Money back guarantee.
Toronto details below. For the Orangeville version, see danceorangeville.com/aroundworld.
Package: any 10 classes: $80 per person.
Frequent Flyer: 20 classes: $135. (If coming to 16 classes, the 20-class pack is cheaper than 10-pack+6.)
Deluxe: Private Lesson – add $60
Individual stops: $10 per 1-hour class. $15 for 2 hours the same evening, $20 for 3 or more hours.
Practice Sessions + Parties:
* 9pm. Open Studio / Open Social. Some of us will be artistic-social dancing. Feel free to work what you’ve learned in these classes or elsewhere, or work on your own performance. Cameras allowed in back third. Diverse music. Requests are possible.
* Saturday March 30, 3-5 pm @ the exquisite Windrush Estate Winery, $25. $10 for Dovercourt students.
Classes:
Dovercourt House, 3rd floor. (Sorry – no elevator.)
Tuesdays: 7-8 pm || 8-9 pm… (6-7 pm = Floor Flow / FloorPlay / Floorwork. 9-10 = Open Studio.)
8-9pm is sometimes a group dance, sometimes a variation of a 7pm partner dance.
Feb 27: Intro.
March 5: Salsa || Salsa Rueda
March 12: no class (March Break)
March 19: Swing || West Coast Swing
March 26: Waltz || Waltz-like patterns in Foxtrot and Polka
April 2: Cuban Rumba vs Ballroom Rumba || Cha cha & Merengue
April 9: Contact Improv || Square Dance
April 16: Country Two-Step || Folk Dances – Greece/Turkey, Hungary, Sweden
April 23: Argentine Tango || India* – Kathak ||
April 30: Traditional South African** || Contemporary African**
May 7: Brazil – Samba + Forro || Samba Parades and Rodas
May 14: Spain – Paso Doble || Scotland Cèilidh + Irish Cèili
* with guest teacher Malini
** with guest teacher Mafa Makhubalo, mafadancevillage.ca
(Missing a destination? Let us know where you want to go! We are exploring the possibility of having a member of a First Nations community come and teach. More on that below.)
Feels like too much of a whirlwind? We also love slow culture – taking things slow – but people with 3 left feet who seemed almost hopeless at the start of these classes have learned the essence of each dance and some very cool moves. I expect you will be similarly delightfully surprised. (We’ll go into more depth in a single style May 21 to the end of June – students’ choice.)
You can choose to go only to specific “destinations”, but the intention is to grow a range of complementary skills that gradually grow freedom and fun on the dance floor to any music, so we recommend the complete journey.
E-transfer is best – to dance ‘ať’ dancershouse.com – but you are welcome to pay by credit card if that’s better for you: https://buy.stripe.com/bIY6secYLc72gFy5kx. You can change the price to match your order. (Stripe is the payment processor used in the background by amazon and eventbrite, etc.)
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A note on the politics of dancing: Some ballroom versions of dances from around the world are distortions from the originals. We’ll mostly attempt to honour the originals – and how they have continued to evolve – while also appreciating the best of the ballroom versions. (More on this and related issues at dancershouse.com/politics.)
Also:
We are exploring the possibility of having a member of a First Nations community come and teach. I have been invited to go – perhaps with a few others, but not a whole class at this time – to a Powwow. We would not be dancing to most dances, but to intertribal dances and perhaps round dances. If this is of interest to you, let me know.
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You can also choose to separately buy:
Private lesson $60: https://buy.stripe.com/eVaaIu0bZ6MI9d6cMT
2 for 2 (2 classes for 2 people): $40. https://buy.stripe.com/00gcQCgaX6MI4WQbIR
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