High Level Training

The thing is, if you’re regularly taking Advanced Level lessons then you’ve probably made some decisions about the style and direction you’d like your dancing to take. These sessions will hopefully feel much more like a coaching session and rely on participants taking charge of their development. There’s more participant led content and opportunities to workshop ideas with support from the teachers.

As mentioned before, we will always start each week with some Solo-Jazz. We’ll then provide a structure and an “inspiration” for the session and as a group we will workshop/drill/experiment with that content finding the right way to incorporate it into our dancing. We build on the strengths of individuals and also learn how to develop our dancing independently. You will still learn new content but hopefully in a way that is more likely to come out on the social dance floor. Plus you’ll be training with a group of people who you’ll hopefully see at a lot of social dances so are more likely to be able to bust out your new skills.

These sessions are intended for experienced dancers who maybe feel that their development has stagnated or perhaps feel they’ve been to a lot of lessons and would like a new challenge. You should have danced for a number of years, attended international camps and be confident mixing up rhythms and styles. You will have completed intermediate/advanced or advanced (Level 3+) classes in the past and play with variations in your social dancing. Your basic footwork should be second nature and you should be confident in Swingouts, mixing your Charleston, 6-count and 8-count rhythms. You regularly social dance. The sessions will include self-directed work so you should be collecting youtube clips, ideas and targets for yourself.