THE CLASSIC CLASSIC
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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. 

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.)

THE CLASSIC CLASSIC WEST COAST SWING (HALF)WEEKEND
JUNE 9, 2018 - NEW YORK CITY
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