Dance Around the World in 80 Days – Orangeville
NEW ROUND starts Thursday, APRIL 11, 7-8 pm at ODSS’ Dance Studio.
Each class learn a sequence you can loop or vary for a whole song, while also growing towards playfully improvising together.
Video class summaries so you can review any time!
Young? Old? Highly trained? Never trained? Unless otherwise specified: All welcome. Concerned class will be too hard? Too easy? Contact us or just come try. Most classes are semi-customized – so everyone works at a level right for them.
Partner not required. Many partners now rotate.
You can choose to go only to specific “destinations”, but the intention is to grow a range of complementary skills that gradually grow freedom and fun on the dance floor to any music, so we recommend the complete journey.
April 11 – Swing
April 18 – Salsa
April 25 – Waltz
May 2 – Brazil – Samba
May 9 – India*
May 16 – Rumba – Cuban vs Ballroom
May 23 – Argentine Tango
May 30 – Folk Dance (this round: Greece/Turkey, Hungary, Sweden)
June 6 – African** / Afro-Latino Cuban (group dance)
June 13 – Country Two-Step
June 20 – Scottish Ceilidh / Irish Ceili [registration required]
June 27 – Review
* with guest teacher Malini
** with guest teacher Mafa Makhubalo
No tax. No ticket fee if paying cash (of course) or by e-transfer (to [email protected]). For credit card, see Tickets box below.
For the Toronto version, see dancingtoronto.ca/aroundworld.
Parties:
Saturday April 27, 7-9 @ MCC (Mono Community Centre). $10. Part of a 15-hour all-day event with different activities (not all dance).
Thursday June 27, 7-9 (or an earlier date – students’ choice)
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Don’t believe in the partner dance roles of lead and follow? Learn the multiple freedoms of following and the ways good leaders follow the follower, how partner dancing truly is a co-creation. Choose either role, or learn to switch between roles, and get a taste of a dance where the dance emerges from both people following the shared centre of gravity.
A note on the politics of dancing: Some ballroom versions of dances from around the world are distortions from the originals. We’ll mostly attempt to honour the originals – and how they have continued to evolve – while also appreciating the best of the ballroom versions. (More on this and related issues at danceorangeville.com/politics.)
Also:
We are exploring the possibility of having a member of a First Nations community come and teach. I have been invited to go – perhaps with a few others, but not a whole class at this time – to a powwow. We would not be dancing to most dances, but to intertribal dances and perhaps round dances. If this is of interest to you, let me know.
