Insider Ballroom: A Free Introductory Lesson
Schedule
Sat Jun 22 2024 at 08:00 pm to Sun Jun 23 2024 at 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Dance Complex | Cambridge, MA
About this Event
About Insider Ballroom:
Insider Ballroom: A Free Introductory Lesson combines professional ballroom dancing of the “American Smooth” category with personal storytelling from the performers: queer perspectives on franchised DanceSport. Your lesson experience includes a 35 minute presentation, followed by the opportunity to join Holly & Michael on the dance floor. There's a chance you might learn a thing or two, there's a chance you might find yourself entertained. But if the artists have done the job they've been trained to do, when all is said and done, you are going to want to buy what they are selling!
About the artists:
J Michael Winward (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist: dancer, storyteller, organizer: working at the intersection of movement, memoir, memory, and care. Michael is the director of Steps in Time®: an organization that brings social partner dance programs to assisted living & mind care communities, as well as the lead coordinator of Dancing Queerly: a platform for LGBTQ+ dance & performance artist support. Michael has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Bennington College, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.
Raised in rural Vermont, Holly Stone (they/them) creates dance and theater throughout Greater Boston, and teaches at both Tufts and Boston Universities. As a performer, Holly has recently danced for Kathy Hassinger, Jo-Me Dance Theater, Lowell House Opera, Tim Glenn, and with many, many others from their time in the American Ballroom Dance Industry. Holly has a B.S. in Bioengineering and Neuroscience from Syracuse University and an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.
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The ground level lobby and second floor performance space are ADA compliant. There is a motorized lift that can bring one person at a time from the ground floor to the second floor should a guest wish to use it. There is no elevator. Gender-neutral accessible bathrooms are located on both the ground and second-floor levels of the building.
Where is it happening?
The Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 50.00
