The night before DCLX begins, instructor Robin Chow joins us from Seattle to teach a Swinging Into Blues dance workshop appropriate for intermediate-and-up lindy hop AND/OR blues dancers. Perfect for blues-curious DCLX attendees! Registration details to come. Save the date!
Swinging Into Blues
In the workshop, we’ll start with some common swing dancing movements, and take you on a musicality and cultural-based journey of understanding the foundations of those movements. We’ll dive into how that is connected to and grew out of blues dancing, and explore the similarities and differences. You’ll get to practice and play with moves and movements both familiar and new, and we’ll show you different approaches for how to change them to fit different music styles and aesthetics.
About Robin:
Being a dancer who started later in life, and owing so much to the discovery of a hip hop tutorial video at the back of a You Got Served DVD, Robin truly believes that dance is inside every one of us. Whether it’s a fully realized passion, or a whisper of curiosity, he feels that dance should always be available to our selves, whatever one’s dance experience or familiarity. His dance repertoire is based on solo movement learned from a studio hip hop background, with the journey into social dancing starting with lindy hop, and over time including blues, balboa & fusion. And ever since his introduction to blues dancing in 2018, he has become a passionate practitioner and advocate of the form, and is dedicated to a continued journey of learning and sharing of blues dance and culture.
