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Seabeck 5 • "Becoming a Total Dancer"
Location: Seabeck Conference Center (on the beautiful shores of Hood Canal)
Halloween Weekend 2010 – Thursday (10/28) through Sunday (10/31)
Camp Directors: Susan Balshor & Dean Paton
| Time | Style | Instructors | Level | Prerequisites |
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| Thursday 6 - 10:30pm Friday 9:15am - midnight Saturday 9:15am - midnight Sunday 9:15am - 3:30pm |
Swing Waltz Latin . . . plus a taste of Night Club Two-step and other surprises |
Michelle Badion |
Novice (not beginner) Intermediate ...and material that will challenge even Advanced dancers |
Passion for dance, some experience with partner dancing a must. Willingness to try new and unfamiliar ways to move your body in ways that will improve all the dances you love. |
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Description
Sign up NOW! (Wait List for Follows)
Because this year's dance camp focuses on multiple, eclectic – and fun – ways to become a better partner dancer, we think Seabeck 5 will be our best gathering yet.
Perhaps just as important, despite a rise in what Northwest Dance pays to rent the Seabeck Conference Center on the west shore of Hood Canal, we've done our best to hold down prices for camp participants: indeed, a minor increase this year of only $15 per dancer.
Though you may choose several options for participation, see "Highlights" below for a partial list of what you’ll get if you arrive Thursday night and stay until Sunday afternoon:
Expect other surprises.
As everyone who's attended the camp will tell you, this long weekend of skill building not only propels participants to new levels of competence, finesse and confidence, but it also forges intimate and lasting community. Some people attend year after year.
Seabeck 5 has been in the planning for months now – around a concept different from past camps. Of course, our line-up of talented, engaging instructors will teach some of your favorite social dances – but they'll also take you beyond steps and moves, and even beyond styling and rhythm.
• Let the Pros Show Us How •
Each instructor teaching classes this autumn also will present "first-person" workshops that show you what they do – personal training tips or simple, adaptable routines – which help them keep evolving as graceful professional dancers and sought-after partners.
Whatever your skill level, these thoughtful dance-training moments will amplify, augment and enhance your dance-floor skills and capabilities. The moves you already have will get better; the moves you learn next will come easier; you’ll dance with more grace, efficiency and awareness.
This combination of dance classes and movement-improvement workshops will help keep your dancing fresh, dynamic and evolving – because the more you can be aware of the ways your body moves effectively, as well as how it gets in the way of your best intentions, the quicker and easier you'll make small adjustments that inspire dramatic improvements in your dancing.
Seabeck 5 will focus on the Five Fs – Fundamentals, Fitness, Flexibility, Flash & Fun.
All with a clear intent: bolstering your ability to move for the rest of your life – because really…the magic's in the music and the music's in you!
You can register by choosing from the drop down box, above right, or by calling 206.781.1238 right now. [see "Accommodations/Pricing" below for information.]
For more details about Seabeck 5, click on the topics below:
Michelle Badion can dance any dance, and is a master instructor. She'll focus on Swing and Latin at Seabeck 5, as well as share movement tips that will enhance any dance you choose to undertake. Plus, she's always up for a good time and never resists sharing her great spirit and laughter with any group she's part of.
Susan Balshor is a quintessential "Follow's Follow" who also knows what a strong Lead must be able to do. She specializes in musicality and the mechanics of body movement, and explains those interconnected movements in ways the r
est of us can not only understand but also put to work immediately. Her Seabeck 5 focus: waltz and…disco? Yes, indeed. You'll see why when you come to camp.
Jodi Fleischman can lead, follow and party – the perfect combination for a place such as Seabeck. The late Frankie Manning declared her "one of the ten best follows in the world," and Frankie didn't kid about those things. Jodi will focus on Latin and Swing, and lead us in movement-enhancing moments.
Winfield Hobbs has taught thousands of people lindy, blues, tango, Foxtrot and related dances since 1995 from New York City to Buenos Aires to Mendocino to Moscow (OK, the one in Idaho). At Seabeck he'll teach you invention and improvisation with inspiration, humor and grace. And, he can party like Wayne & Garth's idol, Fred Garvin.
Dean Paton is a musician for whom musicality has opened every dance door. His focus is waltz, swing and traveling dances (and not disco, though he knows it will be good for him, dammit). Dean's passion focuses him on this idea: how learning to know what's coming in the music gives both Leads and Follows a powerful straightforward way to sculpt each dance into a moment of art – a dance that has a good chance of leaving both partners spellbound by the magic they create.
Wladimir Pino adores performance tango – and wants to show you some easy ways to incorporate simple flash into your dance persona. He'll work with us on useful ideas about character, drama and risk taking. "Wladdy" will help us get "that Latin thing" going in our cha-cha-cha as well, and maybe – who knows? – even at the dinner table. (The Latin Thing knows no boundaries, after all. And if we dare him, maybe he'll again hustle for us.) 
