This week at Blues Union

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.

This month Mike Legenthal will help free up our minds with focused practice for our bodies with:

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.

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

We’ve spent the month struttin’, and now comes the Clinic:

Blues Clinic (7:30-9:30)
The Blues Clinic is an opportunity to work one-on-one with our Blues Union instructors and to work with your friends and peers. Music plays in the background as people work together, and the instructors move around the room, working with people one-on-one or in couples. When not working with instructors, people work with peers, dance with each other, try new things they’re working on, or try things the instructors have helped them with. You can work on material from that month’s series class, workshops you took recently, or anything you like! From 8:30-9:00, we have our Blues Basics class as usual, while the clinic continues in the rest of the room.

Paul Loschak and Steve York will be behind the DJ booth to whet your Blues appetite.

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

We have one more installment of struttin’ fun from Jenn Martinez and Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz:

Struttin’ (7:30-8:30)
Originally from Memphis, struttin’ is a fun, relaxed, close-embrace-based dance, with fun footwork for leaders and followers. Check out some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld053ErlYDY
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1581801728700722&pnref=story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0O25_Ci21o
This series will work your struttin’ technique, as well as take you beyond the basics.

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 Julie Brown and Jenn Martinez.

Julie Brown and Paul Loschak will be behind the DJ booth to scratch your Blues itch.

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