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ONLINE,
​step 1

OCT 1 - DEC 10 2023 - New course for Lindy Hop teachers!

​COURSE CONTENT

  • 8 video classes, approx. 60 min each - download, practice & implement in your own teaching whenever it suits you. After the course you will still have full access to the instructional videos.
  • Optional home studies and reflections: 
    • Contemporary vs. Authentic Lindy Hop
    • How to get teaching-inspiration from vintage clips
    • The essence of Lindy Hop
    • Pedagogical tools and general teaching advice
    • ​... and much more!
  • 1 live session: open discussions around the course material and your personal questions, etcetera. The live session is recorded and shared with all participants.​
  • Access to a closed FB-group where you can discuss the course content with the other participants with individual questions and concerns. You are also asked to share some of your homework assignment answers in this forum to share ideas, questions and have group discussions with the other participants. We will be the host for this group and will include some of these questions and discussions in the last live session to clarify important topics further.
  • A Lindy Hop curriculum  based on typical teaching material from Frankie Manning and Al Minns. 
  • We will share our music playlist for Beginner classes.
  • History and background of the Lindy Hop and our obligations as teachers to keep the legacy of the originators of this dance alive.
  • Discussions on what defines Lindy Hop.
Register to course!
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VIDEO CLASS TOPICS (addressed to instructors)

  • Teaching beginners and what material to start with
  • What to do after a beginners course
  • How to teach the difference between 6-counts and 8-counts
  • Solo Jazz steps
  • The Swingout Breakdown
  • Classical footwork variations
  • Teaching mixed levels in one class
  • Musicality and rhythms (2 hours)
  • Detect students technical problems
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LIVE SESSION

Preliminary time: Sunday Dec 10, 20:00 - 22:00 (CET)
​The live session will be recorded and made available to all participants after the session.​
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REGISTRATION

Register HERE!
To fully confirm your registration and receive all course material, please follow the payment instructions at the end of the registration form.
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PRICE​

290 Euro/person
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COURSE FOCUS
A 10-week course specialized for Lindy Hop teachers 
& dancers that want to work more in the tradition of "old school" Lindy Hop where we put a lot of emphasis on what we have learnt from originators of this dance, like Mr. Frankie Manning, Ms. Norma Miller and Mr. Albert Minns. These dancers are our biggest source of inspiration & information who we have all worked and danced with, direct or indirect. Mr. Frankie Manning is the dancer that we worked more closely with among the original dancers and Åsa even had the opportunity to teach together with "Frankie" during some years in the 1990's.

We base our teaching on what we've learnt from these fantastic dancers and other original dancers active in Harlem, New York during the heydays of Swing; 1930`s - 1940's. But then we, like every other dancer, have our own take on this wonderful dance form that now is widely spread all around the world.

With 30 years of experience of dancing, performing and teaching Lindy Hop we will share our most useful experiences, lessons and advice for teachers. It is mainly the same "lessons learnt" that most Lindy Hop teachers sooner or later figure out after many years of teaching and reflecting - but you will get them easily served, compiled and explained in this course :-)

We will help you grow as a teacher, partly by making you reflect around different Lindy Hop related topics but also by providing useful tools and exercises to develop as a teacher from a pedagogical perspective.

AFTER SIGNING UP
You will receive the full course content immediately after you signed up and paid for the course and can then choose freely to work on only a selection of the assignments and of course in what order. We encourage you to really study the instructional videos for your own dancing, but preferably also try the material when teaching your own students. The course ends with a mutual live session where all participants gets to ask questions about the course content, how it worked (or didn't work) for yourself or your students, but also questions that are topics outside this course plan.

After a fully completed course a certificate will be issued. 

​"Teachers Academy - step 1" is a base course which creates the fundamental knowledge for an upcoming step 2: "Teachers Academy - Practical".

FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS

Feedback from Teachers Academy spring 2023. Here is the full survey results after that course.
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​Below are a few pictures from previous
physical Teachers workshops that we have organized in Luleå, Sweden with dancers from all over the world - China, USA, South Korea, South Africa, Greece, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Canada, Argentina and Germany to mention a few.
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​Teachers Academy has received funding from:
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