This week at Blues Union

Thursday, April 23

This week Jenn Martinez will address performance and movement quality in:

Solo Blues Performance (7:30-8:30)
Level up your dancing with a fun and challenging solo blues choreography! This series will teach you some cool new solo blues moves, as well as help you explore your personal expression of those moves to music. During the month, we’ll learn choreography, form it into a group routine, and work on personal expression and performance. After the series, we’ll perform the piece at a Blues Union dance*!

*Performing is not mandatory, however, if you do want to perform, perfect attendance is strongly encouraged. If you want to perform but need to miss a class, it is your responsibility to learn what you missed.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Jenn Martinez and Naomi Choodnovskiy.

Plus, we have an extra special treat! Amy Kucharik and her brand new band Tiger Moan are going to give us live taste of what’s to come for Sweet Molasses Blues. Find out more about Amy at http://www.amykucharik.com/

And because we have live music, we’re going till midnight!

As always, the lesson is $5, and since there’s a band, the dance will be $10.

Thursday, April 16

This week Jenn Martinez will start to shape her solo blues routine:

Solo Blues Performance (7:30-8:30)
Level up your dancing with a fun and challenging solo blues choreography! This series will teach you some cool new solo blues moves, as well as help you explore your personal expression of those moves to music. During the month, we’ll learn choreography, form it into a group routine, and work on personal expression and performance. After the series, we’ll perform the piece at a Blues Union dance*!

*Performing is not mandatory, however, if you do want to perform, perfect attendance is strongly encouraged. If you want to perform but need to miss a class, it is your responsibility to learn what you missed.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Jenn Martinez and Naomi Choodnovskiy.

Jonathan Pechon will be behind the DJ booth to satisfy your Blues cravings.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.

Thursday, April 9

Join us as Jenn Martinez continues to teach a solo blues routine choreographed just for this series:

Solo Blues Performance (7:30-8:30)
Level up your dancing with a fun and challenging solo blues choreography! This series will teach you some cool new solo blues moves, as well as help you explore your personal expression of those moves to music. During the month, we’ll learn choreography, form it into a group routine, and work on personal expression and performance. After the series, we’ll perform the piece at a Blues Union dance*!

*Performing is not mandatory, however, if you do want to perform, perfect attendance is strongly encouraged. If you want to perform but need to miss a class, it is your responsibility to learn what you missed.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Jenn Martinez and Naomi Choodnovskiy.

Amy Kucharik will be behind the DJ booth to get your Blues groove on.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.

Thursday, March 5

This month Julie Brown and Dan Legenthal will help us make our dancing more than just a series of moves:

Flow: Moves to Dancing (7:30-8:30)
How do you decide what to do next in a dance? How do you go from just doing “moves” to really dancing? This month, we’ll work on how leaders & followers create “flow” together in a dance–a state where moves and movements progress naturally from one to the other. We’ll explore some connection techniques, how leaders set up flow, and how followers can shape and direct that flow.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.

Thursday, February 19

Mike Legenthal has one more session of training our bodies to help free our minds:

Blues Training! (7:30-8:30)
When learning to dance, we need to acquire knowledge and artistic ideas, and we need to acquire the physical skills to put these ideas into practice. Classically trained dancers spend hours upon hours practicing these physical skills as a group, until they have excellent muscle memory and control, but often we forget the value of focused practice as social dancers. In this series, we will practice the movements and physical skills of blues in a precise, controlled ways with a lot of repetition and feedback. Most work will be solo, with some connection drills as well.

Blues Basics + Beginner Clinic (8:30-9:30)
This weekly drop-in class is designed for new-to-blues dancers or anyone wanting to focus on the fundamentals. It will provide enough moves to have fun on the dance floor, as well the opportunity to hone and polish the core techniques behind the dance. Each week, we’ll cover something new, so you can come every week, or just drop in for a class or few. This class includes the beginner clinic, where you can work on your dancing one-on-one with instructors and advanced dancers. This month it will be taught by Mike Legenthal and Zach Brass.

Amy Kucharik and Paul Loschak will be behind the DJ booth to whet your Blues appetite.

As always, the lesson is $5 and the dance is an additional $5.