The next ESSENTIALS series will start on
Sunday 10th and Wed 13th January 2010
Essentials: In this group, you'll learn the 14 Essential basic moves, as sanctioned by the World Swing Dance Council in January 2009, without which you will not realise the full potential of the dance. You will be taught every part of the technique you should know to dance West Coast successfully, BUT, we will not be expecting you to execute every technique perfectly. This is where you will learn to dance West Coast Swing SOCIALLY. Partners will rotate and it will be very much everyone executing the same move at the same time. I should mention here that you will learn the dance better if you rotate partners, even if you will only be dancing with one partner socially. We've seen couples come along who didn't want to join the rotation and they found it so difficult, they lasted only a couple of weeks.
Emphasis will be on enjoyment, rather than correctness, although we will be instructing you in the correct technique because West Coast is a dance most enjoyed when danced using good technique. We recommend you repeat this group as many times as possible to lock in the fundamentals as solidly as possible. To encourage this, for your first repeat of the series, you will pay half price ($5) per lesson, provided you participate in the Challenge lesson also ($10 otherwise). Subsequent repeats are FREE for participants in Challenge class.
Challenge: This group will be for those who have a reasonable mastery of the basics and want a bit of a challenge. Partners will still rotate and it is still Social West Coast Swing you'll be learning, but you'll be shown different variations and combinations of the essentials. You'll learn various 6 & 8 beat beat variations and combinations and how they work best.
Currently, our challenge dancers are learning a great little routine in preparation for Retro Rock 2010.
Lesson Times
Sundays 4:00pm (please be on time) Essentials
5:00pm Challenge & Retro Rock Routine
Wednesdays 7:00pm Studio lesson
8:00pm Essentials
Uniting Church Hall 2 Grant St Innaloo
Lesson costs will be $10 each for Essentials or Challenge, Essentials 1st repeat will be only $5, 2nd & subsequent repeats FREE. Wednesday's 7pm lesson will cost $10, but is only $5 if you have already attended Sunda's lesson that week.
Current students, please remember, you can repeat essentials as many times as you want and we do recommend this to everyone, as you will always get more out of a course the second, third, etc time around. [Think about this: after so many years of dancing, Jan & I are STILL doing beginners lessons!!??!! Why? Because every time we do, we become better dancers].
If you are repeating ESSENTIALS for the frst time and also taking the CHALLENGE lesson [Good plan, by the way!], it will only cost you $15 for both lessons, not $20. If you repeat ESSENTIALS more than once and also take the CHALLENGE lesson, [REALLY good plan!!!] it will then only cost you $10
Can't make the Sunday West Coast Lesson?
On any Wednesday, there is a second lesson in West Coast Swing. It is a mirror image of the Sunday lesson, so if you can't make it to the Sunday lesson, you miss one Sunday lesson or you just want to reinforce what you learned on Sunday, then this is for you!. Cost will be $5 if you have already done the Sunday lesson that week, otherwise it will be $10. LESSON TIME: 8pm to 9pm
