Guest Teacher Weekend 🌍👟

🥵 10 workshops over 3 days

🌍 4 different teachers from 3 different countries

👟 Shuffle, Cutting Shapes, Electro, House and all styles based workshops

🗓️ SCHEDULE AND CLASS TOPICS

Friday - 9.10

👉 18:00-19:30 Ruvi workshop - Musicality and emotion (1h30min) - ALL STYLES

Definitions and differences of groove and flow, how to apply them and identify groovy or flowy music or movement. The second block is more focused on dancing through emotion with different kinds of songs.

👉 19:30-21:00 Alyson workshop - Listening your body when dancing (1h30min) - ALL STYLES

To connect with dance, we need to connect with the present moment: the music, our sensations, our bodies... It’s important to be mindful so we know what we’re dancing and why. The class will focus on various exercises for physical and emotional awareness, as well as exploring our values and goals as dancers

Saturday - 10.10

👉 11:00-12:30 Lard workshop - Electro basics + choreo (1,5h)

This class is going to give you the canon basics of electro dance through Lard's perspective, precisely its grooves and music connection, basic moves with movement quality control, freestyle & concepts development techniques.

👉 12:30-13:30 Ruvi workshop - Textures and energy (1h) - ALL STYLES

Exploring different textures and energy in dancing, drills to understand body control and intention.

👉 13:30-14:30 Alyson workshop - Tackling anxiety and nervousness when dancing (1h) - ALL STYLES

The class will explore what competing means to each of us, why it’s important, and what our expectations are when we compete. The goal is to reframe and challenge overly demanding expectations and to practice self-compassion and mindfulness.

👉 14:30-15:30 Ruvi workshop - heel-toe technique (1h) - ALL STYLES

This is a technical class, focused on what the heel toe tool can give you for footwork - variations, and ways to control it by experimenting with different positions and transitions.

👉 15:30-16:30 Alyson workshop - Groove and intentional movement in electronic music (1h) - ALL STYLES

In this class, we'll learn to become aware of how our bodies prompt us to move to different types of electronic music. Based on those movements, we'll explore the ways we can take control of our movements.

Sunday - 11.10

👉 12:00-13:30 Lard workshop - hardstyle (electro) basics (1,5h)

The teacher will share his findings in the history of this dance style and its connection to electro dance, music influence as well dance techniques.

👉 13:30-14:30 Gina workshop - house grooves (1h)

In this class, we’ll start by breaking down the house groove - the Jack - and getting comfortable with the rhythm and bounce of the movement. From there, we’ll explore some foundational House steps, focusing on groove, rhythm and flow. We’ll then bring everything together with a short choreography/combo that you can dance along to and have fun with! 🕺✨

👉 14:30-16:00 Gina workshop - int/adv shuffle/shapes choreo (1,5h)

ℹ️ NB! "ALL STYLES" labelled classes are classes about different concepts and tools that can work for many different dance styles, electronic music (house, trance, techno, electro etc) will be used in classes to explore these techniques.

ℹ️ If the class name doesn't specify level then the class level is accessible for everyone but experience with dance classes is recommended, so that you can integrate the tools and concepts into your own style and practice.

👯‍♂️ MEET YOUR TEACHERS

🇵🇹🇿🇦 Gina Rego

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"Hi, I’m Gina! 🕺✨

I’m primarily a shuffle dancer, but I love exploring street dance styles like Hip Hop, House, Afro and Breaking and bringing those influences into my movement. Originally from South Africa, I’ve been living in Portugal for the past 2.5 years. I started shuffling in 2020 and have been teaching for around 5 years. Dance has grown from a passion into my full-time career. These days, I mainly teach online through 1:1 coaching and my group Flow Lab classes, connecting with dancers from all over the world. I’m passionate about helping dancers understand their bodies, find their own movement and explore new ways of dancing. I’m so excited to share some movement with you and hopefully give you some new tools to take into your own dance! 💫"

🇷🇺🇫🇷 Lard

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Lard, Tekstil crew, electro. Dancing since 2008, battling since 2010, teaching since 2016. Exploring the intersection of electronic music with body movement, deeply rooted with electro, techno & hard genres. Propaganding freestyle & music feeling approaches. Currently under the hardstyle dance influence. Club & battle dj.

🇪🇸 Alyson

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"Hi! I'm Alison, a shuffle and cutting shapes dancer and a psychologist. In recent years, I've been focusing my dancing on well-being and emotional exploration through electronic music, so I place a strong emphasis in my dancing and classes on finding ways to live in the present through dance and to accept our emotions in different dance contexts. See you in class, and I hope we enjoy our time together!"

🇪🇸 Ruvi

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"Hi! I'm Ruvi, I have been dancing for 10 years. I have dipped my toes into electro, house, hip-hop and contemporary dance but I mainly dance shuffle. Whenever I give classes, I try to give out tools each of you can learn to apply in a way they understand the intention behind them. I also value a lot the emotional connection with music and how to move your body in harmony with it, so I hope I can teach you elements that might change your perspective on this artform. I am super open to questions and love to talk, so let me know if you want to speak about anything before, during or after the classes, see you soon!"