Capital Blues hosts dances, classes, special workshops, and other events celebrating blues dance in the Washington, D.C. area, including weekly Thursday night dances at Glen Echo Park.
Blues in the Back Room
Every Thursday night, we host Back Room Blues, a DJ’d dance to blues music in the Back Room at Glen Echo Park, just outside of Washington, D.C. Come join us!
The dance is at 9pm. Join us at 8:15pm for a beginner-friendly lesson in blues dance foundations, free with admission!
Special Event COMING UP!
Thursday, August 27:
Visiting instructor Dr. Fen Lastra teaches intermediate and beginner-friendly blues dance classes !
Intermediate Class: Recipes for Conversation
Blues is famously a conversational art, drawing on riffing, cutting, call and response, and other structures in both its music and movement. In this class, we’ll look at how to have connected conversations in our partner dancing, using our voices to shine for ourselves and inspire each other.
Access notes: For the intermediate class, you should be familiar with at least one Blues idiom dance (such as jukin’, ballroomin’, or Piedmont) and how to follow direction and momentum in it. Rotation will be scramble-style, with the option for different kinds of holds.
Intermediate lesson 7–8pm ($25 at the door, no pre-registration)
Beginner-friendly lesson 8:15–9pm ($10 at the door, no pre-registration)
Paying for either class gets you into the dance for free!
9pm–11:30pm DJ’d Blues Dance !
More about Fen here.
