Save The Date: Workshop with Julie Brown and Dan Repsch

📅 Friday, October 9th
🕗 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM CT

We’re excited to welcome Dan Repsch and Julie Brown to the DJ booth for a special night of dancing before Saturday’s workshop!
Expect great blues music, wonderful dancers, and a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Whether you’re joining us for the full weekend or just stopping by for a dance, we’d love to see you there.
More details coming soon! 💙

📅 Saturday, October 10th
🕛 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT

Together, Dan and Julie bring decades of experience as teachers, DJs, competitors, organizers, and passionate students of blues dance. Throughout the day, we’ll explore musicality, partnership, creativity, rhythm, and connection through three engaging classes:
🩵 Redirections & Decisions: We’ll use a fun sequence, broken into modular pieces, to explore redirections and momentum, with decision points that let followers change the flow and express themselves.
💙 Composing in Rhythm: We’ll explore how rhythms feel against a song, how we can change accents, and how we can choose to arrange them to create a musical and rhythmically rich dance.
🩵 How to Have a Good Dance with Anyone
Composing in Rhythm:
How to have a good dance with anyone: When your partner hears a song very differently, or you have different preferences or skills, how do you bridge that gap? In this class, we’ll offer ways to adapt your connection and highlight your partnership’s strengths so you can have a good dance with anyone, without sacrificing yourself.
Each class will run approximately 80 minutes.
And when the workshops end, the dancing continues! Join us that evening for Bluetopia featuring live music from Young Rell. 🎶
Registration and full details coming soon. Save the date! 💙

Who is Julie Brown?
Julie Brown (any/all pronouns) is a Boston-based blues dance teacher, DJ, competitor, organizer, and lifelong student of the dance. Active in the blues community since 2004, Julie has taught and DJed at events across the U.S. and around the world, earning recognition as both a respected instructor and award-winning competitor.
Julie’s teaching combines musicality, connection, and blues history, helping dancers build a deeper relationship with the music, the dance, and each other.

Who is Dan Repsch?
Dan Repsch is immersed in the music and the movement. As a teacher, his enthusiastic approach focuses on innovation, connection, and attention to your partner. As a veteran instructor and DJ, he's worked at events across 4 continents, from international events to local dances.
Dan has also organized both local and international events, including serving as Head DJ for BluesSHOUT! and The Balboa/Blues Experiment. In the end, Dan is most excited to work hard at improving the dance and to see people break through their boundaries.