TUXEDO & UNDER COVER GIRL | Performance Dance Workshops

Connect with and support "Expected the Unexpected" Musical performing these 2 fan-made choreographies with Transcendance Belfast
About this Event

🎩 TUXEDO 🕵️ UNDER COVER GIRL Dance Workshops by Transcendance Belfast

Connect with and support "Expected the Unexpected" Musical and founders performing these 2 fan-made choreographies with Transcendance Belfast

Venue 📍Liffey Trust Studios, Dublin

Date 📅 Sunday 23 August 2026

Time 🕐 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

⸻

About this event

Ready to unlock your confidence, embrace your femininity and elevate your performance?

Join Transcendance Belfast for an immersive afternoon of Burlesque, Theatre Jazz, Commercial Heels inspired dance classes designed to help you move with confidence, improve your stage presence and connect with an inspiring community of women.

Whether you’re stepping into dance for the very first time or looking to develop your artistry further, these workshops combine technique, performance, musicality and storytelling in a welcoming, supportive environment.

Following the success of our previous workshops, we’re excited to be moving into 2.5x lager studios than our last event at Liffey Trust Studios giving everyone plenty of room to learn, move and perform comfortably on a high-quality professional dance floor.

⸻

🎟 Choose Your Experience

🎩 TUXEDO | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

A sophisticated Burlesque Theatre Jazz choreography inspired by vintage cabaret, confidence and elegance. Expect dramatic styling, expressive movement, theatrical storytelling and plenty of attitude.

Dress code welcomed :

• Lingerie or bodysuit
• Dance heels
• Tuxedo jacket
• Hat (provided)
• Cane (provided)
• Feather boa (provided)
• Ostrich Feather Fans (provided)
• Chair (provided)

Tuxedo - The song | a word from the singer Rachelle Rhienne

• Is our musical's high energy
• Theatrical and flirtatious number between our lead female and male characters
• It's a female anthem that demands attention and conveys confidence, ambition and girl boss energy.

• Marina Bennett’s insights

• is definitely a song that celebrates being empowered and stepping into your life with confidence!
• It's a female empowerment anthem
• Is cheeky and fun and meant to be playfully empowering while reminding anyone out there to believe in yourself and to support one another in that journey.

⸻

🕵️ UNDER COVER GIRL | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Inspired by glamorous spy movies and James Bond heroines, this choreography combines commercial heels, some burlesque fondamentals moves, beginner friendly acro level to dance with theatrical expression, confidence and feminine power. Perfect for anyone wanting to develop character work, musicality and performance skills. This workshop is choregraphed for the camera, not for the stage.

Dress code welcomed :

• Black fitness outfit
• Black cocktail dress
• Silk robe (provided : 3ppl max)
• Sunglasses
• Black heels
• Black trainers

⸻

What you’ll learn

✨ Express mobility and lengh training : Full Body scan x warm-up

✨ Technique drills, showgirl walks, burlesque foundation moves, props drills

✨ Musicality & timing

✨ Character development

✨ Confidence, camera/stage presence

✨ Choreography breakdown

✨ Performance skills

✨ Group filming & photographs

⸻

Suitable for

✔ Adults (18+) ✔ Beginner–Inter dancers

✔ Returning participants ✔ Anyone willing to socialise, have fun, keep active and mobile, build confidence through movement, develop skills and working on exposure and being seen tolerance

⸻

What to bring

• Water bottle
• Comfortable clothing
• Dance heels or trainers
• Create vibes
• A friend?

⸻

Venue

Liffey Trust Studios is one of Dublins leading professional rehearsal venues, offering spacious dance studios with sprung wood or marley floors and excellent facilities.

Depending on final numbers, the workshop will be hosted in one of the medium studios, providing ample space for movement, choreography and filming (2.5x larger than past event hosted)

⸻

Important Information

• Places are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis, priority will be givent to attendees enrolling to both workshops

• Tickets are non-refundable unless the organiser cancels the event.

• If you’re unable to attend, tickets may be transferred to another participant with prior notice.

• Photography and video content may be captured during the workshop for Transcendance Belfast’s social media, promotional purposes and also progression audit from first workshop attended to second and so on. Please let us know on arrival if you would prefer not to appear on camera.

⸻

Why attending workshop with us ?
About Transcendance Belfast - About the Founder

Morgane's dance journey started with a deep calling for music and movement, attending her first ballet class and showcases in Britany, France at 4yo, transitionning to Mordern Dance and Rock, choregraphing her first solo and winning 2 years on the row Rhone-Alpes regionnal competitions at 12yo.

Her career drive and goal to enrol musical scholarship , develop her technique and performance skills including singing couldnt be funded by her family so she had to leave dance studios and stages behind for classic high school scholarship

Until she found a bit of consolation and creativity spark choosing a Literacy x cinema audiovisual A-Level where she studided for 3 years how to analize movie sequences, direct, shoot and write scenarios for short movies to be sent to festivals and competitions, how to draw reviews and critiques, with a fascination for musicals, old hollywood movies aesthetic and soundtracks.

18-21yo area, she gets back to dance schools try to catchup the years missed investing her monthly wages into 8h dance classes weekly, exploring different commercial styles : bollywood, heels, streetjazz, afro-ragga-dancehall, latinfitness... attending international dancers workshops

2013-2014 she successfuly audition to a French Entertainement school where she followed a 12months course to become an Artistic Event Coordinator (Themed Parties and Shows) Dancer-Singer Performer, Fitness/Dancer Instructor-Choreographer-Rehearser with a first contract for Hotel Guest Entertainement in Greece.

2015-2019 she landing back in France, new career shift into Sales, Retail, Cinema Compexe and Beauty boutique for Italian leading cosmetic brand. Back to dance classes, coordinating and choregraphing a halloween and christmas dance live and video performance project in Lyon France. Leaving for Belfast for a 9 months experience abroad in retail/makeup industry yet stopping in Glasgow first and meeting singer and media team she will be working with couple of months later being offered to perform a solo in Rachelle Rhienne's M2M music video.

2025 she gets back to dance classes 15h weekly for 12 months exploring differents styles and studios in Beflast, meeting different instructors ; Hip Hip Bollywood Bellydance Heels Commercial Afro Jazz ... She learns for 6 months about burlesque feather fans from a local performer, she gets offered the opportunity to do her debuts during a local brunch but date got canceled, she then produced her first 2 burlesque numbers "Cruella Deville" and "French Riviera" mentored by a local performer and performed them on local stage during showcases events produced by a local collective.

2026 She joins the Authentic-Solo-Jazz performing school launched by Swing Charleston Salsa Choreographer from Strictly Come Dancing. She flies to Berlin to meet and learn from Australian Performer during a Burlesque Afternoon workshops, to London to meet and learn from ex Moulin Rouge showgirl and Luxurious Cruise ship performer. Morgane is alongside a multi soletrader : beautician, physical therapist, media content creator. Under Transcendance Belfast she performs and run workshops working freelance and with 4 entertainement agencies delivering classes and partaking to the cast of themed parties hosted all around Ireland and NI.

About Transcendance Belfast : a dance community funded in 2025 worshipping our body's mobility and its ability to hear music, feel rythms, express it through full body movement in space. We belive artistic performances are transformative experiences, personnal developpment tools. Choreography learning is excellent for motor and cognitive functions. Technique x Fundations momentums are here for posture awarness and movement cleanliness. This dance community is grounded in performance + geniune care and wellbeing, empowering and uplifiting mindest, deep connections to others and ourselves, with educative, creative, social and entertainment values . Our target audience is women from all backgrounds, ethnicity, age group, resonating with the above values and looking a dancer to spend time with and grow, thrive, build charisma and make space to artistic self-expression through movement and music, learn to perform our best and let go of judgment, building comfort zones around live/camera exposure, aiming for progression not perfection

⸻

About The genesis of the musical

Expect the Unexpected was born in 2020, during the COVID era and the lockdowns.

From 2021 to 2025, the musical’s story, characters, and songs were written entirely online through recurring Zoom calls.

The work was led by three music artists based in three different countries who had never met in person.

Instead of letting distance and isolation stop them, they turned that time into something meaningful: building a real connection, and creating together across miles.

Three years after they first began collaborating online, they finally met face-to-face in Los Angeles in 2003, travelling respectively from Canada, Australia, and Scotland.

That meeting marked the beginning of creating on-the-ground content to bring the musical to life.

It was love at first sight for Marina and Johnathan. They fell in love, married in 2005, and performed their wedding dance to “Infinite,” one of the musical’s most iconic love songs.

Expect the unexpected

• Marina Bennett : We want our musical to unite the world and remind everyone that there's magic in the ordinary moments, and in the extraordinary ones too. We hope it brings joy and inspiration and magic back to a world that's been dark and chaotic. We want to spread the love and beauty and hope.

• Rachelle Rhienne : It’s more than a musical - it's a wake-up call to the soul. In a world full of constant stimulation and uncertainty, Expect the Unexpected is a portal into a whole new dimension, where genre-bending, heart-opening songs and powerful storytelling reignite your imagination, and connect you back to what truly matters.

• is an original cinematic pop musical that is on a epic journey to the top, to the Broadway stage in New York. We are hoping that we can gather support from people at this early stage and build hype online in order to get our project in front of the right eyes, build demand and we can all enjoy the experience of making a big dream become a big reality. Rachelle, Marina Jon (3 Sparks) on creating the musical .
• We have had feedback from industry professionals that this is a rare circumstance for just the 3 of us to have written everything ourselves (the music and the script) which makes it really stand out, especially through our story of having written the entire musical on zooms calls on opposite ends of the world.
• We wrote the majority of the songs between 2020-2022 and later wrote the script during the Summer of 2025. Having created an audiobook workshop for promotional and pitching purposes, we now hope to build a live stage workshop for the near future as we develop the musical's presence and brand.

A word for Belfast, Dublin danceres and other cities in England, Wales, Scotland who will welcome these workshops and perform these fan-made choreos

Rachelle Rhienne : Have fun, be yourself and don't be afraid to step out your comfort zones. "Expect the Unexpected Musical" and our song "Tuxedo" is all about bringing joy, relatability and feeling lucky to be who you are. We want people to express that with confidence.

Marina Bennett: Thank you so much for using our music in your class! We are beyond thrilled and grateful! And we can't wait to see the choreography of your class with everyone! So exciting! Thank you so much Morgane for taking such a thoughtful creative approach to helping us get the word out about our show! Your dancing is superb!!

⸻

🎟 TICKETS

• 45EUR for each workshop
• DM us on IG @transcendancebelfast
• Join our WhatsApp chat, connect with other attendees, get links to online tutorials if you want to master choreo theorically before d day
• Receive a warm welcome from singer and a brochure of the workshop + musical genesis

Our workshops blend dance, performance and empowerment in a supportive environment where every participant is encouraged to grow at their own pace, regardless of experience.

Whether you’re dancing for fitness, confidence, artistry or simply for fun, you’ll leave feeling stronger, inspired and part of an uplifting community.

Limited spaces available. Book early to avoid disappointment! 💃✨