WHAT IS "THE CLASSIC CLASSIC"?
"THE CLASSIC CLASSIC" is a rigorous, intensive learning experience. You will upgrade all your dancing by focusing intensively on Classic WCS skills — with two of WCS's most precise and elegant superstars. As WCS evolves, much is gained, but some of the very best skills are being lost by omission. Come (re-)learn them!
We are organized VERY differently from typical WCS events and workshops! So please read everything here!
• Participants MUST SIGN UP WITH A PARTNER. (We can help "matchmake" if needed.)
• You will stay with your partner so that the focus can be on practicing & mastering the class content rather than negotiating rotations and the feel of new partners every few minutes.
• Staying with your partner enables Blake & John to assign MULTIPLE LEVELS OF MATERIAL in each workshop — accessible but challenging work for Adv.Beginners, more challenging for Intermed, and much more challenging for Advanced and All Stars.
• The pace will be brisk and challenging.
• The gender of the leader and follower in each partnership does not matter. Partners can also switch roles throughout the day, if they so choose.
• There is no Beginner track.
LEVELS:
In each workshop, there will be separate challenging material for Adv.Beginners, for Intermediates, and for Advanced/All Star dancers. (This is made possible by partner-keeping!) And as much individual coaching as time allows. There is no Beginner track.
We are organized VERY differently from typical WCS events and workshops! So please read everything here!
• Participants MUST SIGN UP WITH A PARTNER. (We can help "matchmake" if needed.)
• You will stay with your partner so that the focus can be on practicing & mastering the class content rather than negotiating rotations and the feel of new partners every few minutes.
• Staying with your partner enables Blake & John to assign MULTIPLE LEVELS OF MATERIAL in each workshop — accessible but challenging work for Adv.Beginners, more challenging for Intermed, and much more challenging for Advanced and All Stars.
• The pace will be brisk and challenging.
• The gender of the leader and follower in each partnership does not matter. Partners can also switch roles throughout the day, if they so choose.
• There is no Beginner track.
LEVELS:
In each workshop, there will be separate challenging material for Adv.Beginners, for Intermediates, and for Advanced/All Star dancers. (This is made possible by partner-keeping!) And as much individual coaching as time allows. There is no Beginner track.
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THE WORKSHOPS
5 Hours of Workshops on Classic West Coast Swing with WCS Legends & Master Instructors BLAKE HOBBY DOWLING & JOHN FESTA - Technique - Musicality - Footwork - Styling - Connection |
"THE COMPULSORIES"
(Like in figure skating) A non-leveled "JnJ" competition in which participants are required to dance what was taught in the workshops in order to advance in the competition. Find out if you've learned the skills, by using them right away! Judged by a panel of current & former WCS champions, including John Festa, Blake Hobby, Teddy Kern, & Andrew D'Angelo. (Despite the name, participation is optional) |
"GIMME THE NIGHT"
Evening WCS dance party with all of the sophistication, magic, and down home booty-shakin' of Classic West Coast Swing. DJ'd by John Festa, David Muzii, and Vernon Smith. Fancy dress NOT required ... but if you feel like dressing up, that's fine with us! (Open to the public.) |