Andrew Sutton

Friday Evening (A)

7:30pm - 9:30pm: Hidden Closed & Musicality Basics
9:30pm - 12:00am: DJ dance - Andrew will DJ

Saturday

11:00am - 1:30pm: (B) Dips, Tricks, & Leg Leads (2.5 hrs)
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Lunch
2:30pm - 4:00pm: (C) Making your night out dancing amazing (1.25 hrs)
4:15pm - 5:15pm: (D) Superman (1.25 hrs)

Sunday "Just Dance" Workshop (E)

12:00pm - 6pm: (5 hrs) plus snack breaks

BONUS CLASS (this class is not included in the weekend workshop price)

6:30pm - 8pm: The Baltimore Challenge (partner required)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

The "Hidden" Closed Position Connection

(Great for all levels) Learn about a very simple "secret" connection most advanced leads and follows use - but don't even think about. This technique will enhance your connection and open up a new world of opportunities for cool moves.

Dips, Tricks, & Leg Leads

(B/I) This class will stress the actual lead and follow for some basic lifts, drops or tricks. It will also address the fundamentals of leg leading, leg following and leg motions. You'll leave with a better understanding of how to create moves displacing your partners' weight in addition to increasing the connection between you and your partner on the regular social dance floor. This is a rotating class, so you don't need a partner.

Making Your Night Out Dancing Amazing

(All levels, but most interesting for Int & Adv) Sometimes you go out dancing and the energy in the room is amazing! Other nights at the same venue, with the same people, and the same music, sometimes it is just NOT amazing at all. This class will teach you the things that can make your night (and many other people's nights) change from not so great to "Remember the time when we..., Wow, that was one heck of a night!"

Dancing Like Superman - The art of dancing fast

(I/A) Dancing fast and making it feel comfortable should feel like Superman flying 100 miles an hour but seeing the bullet (your partner) going at a walking speed. In this class you will learn how to make it feel like you are going at a walking speed when you are really flying by.

Sunday "Just Dance" Workshop

Class Subjects will include: Being Grounded and Showing it to your partner, Body Control, Finding Your Own Musicality, Follower Power, and Games for Dancing All partner dances are a combination of moving your own body to interpret the music and then being able to pass on your interpretations to your partner. Each dancer chooses to emphasize certain parts of the music and then uses some specific techniques to pass on that interpretation to a partner which creates a style of dance or even a whole new type of dance. For instance, in Savoy Style Lindy Hop dancers tend to emphasize the bounce or pulse in the music. Taking out the bounce and emphasizing the moments of counterbalance will change the style and start to look more like Smooth Style Lindy Hop. Dancing in closed position with a slight outward balance is done more often in blues dancing, and dancing in closed position with a slight inward balance is done more often in Balboa. Regardless of which techniques you choose to use, all of these dances rely on fundamental concepts that don't change. The "Just Dance" workshop will use these fundamental concepts to show you how to have dance with all styles and levels of dancers in any dance - from Savoy to Hollywood, Funk to Tango, Blues to Balboa, these are some of the concepts you need to know to become great in any dance as quickly as possible.

Baltimore Challenge

(Partner Required, Advanced, but all levels are welcome to participate) These classes are partner required and will go at the pace of the top 2-3 couples in the class. A challenging repertoire class - any couple is allowed to take this class, but be forewarned that it is possible that you will not finish the class having learned all the moves.