Teachers workshop 4 days, 2-5 january 2021
A workshop for Lindy Hop teachers and advanced dancers that want to work more in the tradition of "the old school Lindy Hop" where we put a lot of emphasis on what we have learnt from original dancers like Frankie Manning, Norma Miller and Al Minns. These dancers are our biggest source of information and inspiration who we have all worked and danced with, direct or indirect. Frankie Manning is the one dancer that we worked more closely to than any other dancer of the original dancers and Åsa even had the opportunity to teach together with Frankie for some years in the 1990's.
This workshop will mainly focus on making you grow as a teacher, partly by creating a deeper understanding of the history of Lindy Hop but also to give you useful tools and exercises to develop as a teacher from a pedagogical perspective.
With 27 years of experience from teaching the Lindy Hop we will try to share some of our most useful experiences and what we think are good advice's for you as a Lindy Hop teacher. It will be a small workshop so that we will have time to work with each and every one on an individual level.
Maximum 10 Couples.
This workshop will mainly focus on making you grow as a teacher, partly by creating a deeper understanding of the history of Lindy Hop but also to give you useful tools and exercises to develop as a teacher from a pedagogical perspective.
With 27 years of experience from teaching the Lindy Hop we will try to share some of our most useful experiences and what we think are good advice's for you as a Lindy Hop teacher. It will be a small workshop so that we will have time to work with each and every one on an individual level.
Maximum 10 Couples.
Focus for the weekend
Below are subjects that we normally work on during a workshop with us, but during 2021 years workshop we will focus more on; How to pass on Lindy Hop, what to teach to beginners, how to build a curriculum, how to proceed after the beginners course and how to build a good partnership together with your teaching partner.
- Back To The Roots - A weekend where we want to strengthen your root system. Your Lindy Hop roots.
- Lindy Fundamentals- We will work on your fundamental basic and relate it to "Old school" Lindy hop, "Savoy Style" Lindy and the "Contemporary Lindy". We do not claim to tell right from wrong, we are just going to give you our perspective from our knowledge based on working closely together with Frankie Manning and our background working with The Rhythm Hot Shots and Harlem Hot Shots.
- Individual Feedback - We choose to keep the workshop small so that we will have time to work with each and every one individually, to give personal feedback on both your own dancing but also on your teaching skills.
- Musicality - We are going to work from a rhythmical aspect in most things that we do. We are going to work with scatting, footwork and a free rhythmical improvisation.
- Teaching Aspects - Develop as a Lindy Hop teacher by working on different aspects of teaching, such as suitable material for beginners, how to plan a class, attitudes during class or how to work with concepts rather than only figures and technique.
- Back To The Roots - A weekend where we want to strengthen your root system. Your Lindy Hop roots.
- Lindy Fundamentals- We will work on your fundamental basic and relate it to "Old school" Lindy hop, "Savoy Style" Lindy and the "Contemporary Lindy". We do not claim to tell right from wrong, we are just going to give you our perspective from our knowledge based on working closely together with Frankie Manning and our background working with The Rhythm Hot Shots and Harlem Hot Shots.
- Individual Feedback - We choose to keep the workshop small so that we will have time to work with each and every one individually, to give personal feedback on both your own dancing but also on your teaching skills.
- Musicality - We are going to work from a rhythmical aspect in most things that we do. We are going to work with scatting, footwork and a free rhythmical improvisation.
- Teaching Aspects - Develop as a Lindy Hop teacher by working on different aspects of teaching, such as suitable material for beginners, how to plan a class, attitudes during class or how to work with concepts rather than only figures and technique.
Practicalities
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We hold the classes in the beautiful place of Gammelstad Church Town (on the list of Unesco's World heritages) 15 minutes from Luleå airport. There is a bed and breakfast within a two minute walk from where the venue. We arrange all lunches and daytime snax to a self-service price.
Day time activities - Minimum of 18 hours of classes including personal feedback - Additional own practice times - Discussion sessions - Live exercises, group and coupled (with you partner) - Assignments - All lunches together at venue Evening activities - Social dance evening - Movie night with vintage clips - Mutual dinner at the venue (comes with a separate cost around 100 SEK) Prices 2900 SEK for workshop and activities. 400 SEK for lunches and daytime snax. Time Schedule 2nd Jan 2021 11:00 - 5th Jan 2021 15:00. We will work intensely during those four days so expect to be fully occupied from morning until late evening during the workshop. |
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Booking request
Please send us an e-mail to: [email protected] with the subject "Teachers Workshop 2021"
Give a short background of you and your partner's own dancing and teaching experience.
Give a short background of you and your partner's own dancing and teaching experience.
Previous workshop pictures
Pictures from different workshops that we have held in Gammelstad, Luleå with dancers from all over the world - China, Korea, South Africa, Greece, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Canada, Argentina, Germany to mention a few.
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