?✨ Swing City Comes to Copenhagen! ✨?

Schedule

Fri Oct 04 2024 at 07:00 pm to Sun Oct 06 2024 at 05:00 pm

Location

Ørnevej 33, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark | Frederiksberg, SF

Get ready, Copenhagen! This fall we will have a weekend full of exciting Lindy Hop workshops with two of the best Lindy Hoppers from South America: Mariel & Manuel.
They are visiting us all the way from Buenos Aires, where they have their big swing dance school: Swing City.
They will be traveling together with their House band, who will playing at the Friday Party on October 4th.
Saturday and Sunday, Mariel & Manuel will be offering exciting Lindy Hop workshops. One of the workshops will even be taught to live music!
Read all about it below!
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Registration is open! Register here:
https://happyfeetstudio.dk/events/swing-city-comes-to-copenhagen-2024/
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? Kickoff Party with Swing City House Band
? Friday October 4th
Dance the night away at our Friday party, featuring the sensational Swing City House Band! Expect an evening filled with vibrant swing tunes, played by musicians who have a passion not only for swing music, but also for swing dancing, and who know how to get the floor bouncing!
Find the event for the Friday party to read more and stay updated right here: https://www.facebook.com/events/504191585337902

?? Lindy Hop Workshops with Mariel Gastiarena & Manuel Bicain
? Saturday & Sunday
Dive into two days of immersive Lindy Hop workshops led by the renowned dancers Mariel Gastiarena and Manuel Bicain. They will feature Lindy Hop workshops on many different topics, and for one of the workshops they will even have the Swing City House Band join them for an intense and inspiring Musicality workshop to actual live music!
Mariel & Manuel have been visiting Copenhagen for over a decade and love the scene and the dancers here so much that they always find their way back for another visit and we are thrilled to have them both back for this special weekend.
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SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEKEND
(see detailed descriptions below)
Friday
Kickoff Party with Swing City House Band
(party starts at 19.00, first set of live music starts at 20.45)
Saturday
11.00-13.00: M&M Crazy Steps Factory
13.00-14.00: Break
14.00-16.00: Connection and Body Movement Technique: Flow and Speed
Sunday
10.00-11.30: Solo Dancing (two rooms)
11.30-12.30: Break
12.30-14.30: Syncopation
14.30-15.00: Break
15.00-17.00: Learn musicality with Swing City House Band
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PRICES
Each workshop has a specific price (see the list below).
15% discount for students
10% discount on the total amount, when you register for more than one event.
You can receive both discounts on your booking.
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
SATURDAY
✤ M&M Crazy Steps Factory ✤
Join Mariel and Manuel as they share their process for evolving Lindy Hop basic steps into entirely new movements. In this class, you’ll explore a variety of tools to reimagine your most common steps using concepts like direction changes, rotations, and different connection possibilities. We’ll discover that even the most complex steps are built from simple ideas, and by connecting and layering them correctly, we can create surprising effects. Afterwards, you can even add rhythmic changes, dynamics, and footwork to bring even more nuances, colours, and textures!
Level guidance: We recommend that you have danced Lindy Hop at least a year or longer, to join this workshop.
Price: 320kr
✤ Connection and Body Movement Technique: Flow & Speed ✤
Explore how to fully engage with the music in this class, focusing on the flow and transitions between movements. Learn to navigate the space between each step, adapting your dance to different tempos and creating a smoother, more expressive connection. This class emphasises the flow and nuances between each movement, leading to a more seamless and expressive dance.
Level guidance: We recommend that you have danced Lindy Hop at least a year or longer, to join this workshop.
Price: 320kr

SUNDAY
✤ Solo Dance with Manuel: Authentic Solo Jazz with spicy upgrades ✤
Get ready to push your steps with Manuel! We will take basic and classic steps and add small variations that result in significant changes to the effect of the steps, whether in rhythm, body positioning, footwork and more. The goal is to provide tools and perspectives for introducing variations in both improvisation and choreography.
Level guidance: Intermediate Solo Jazz, meaning you have taken at least some solo jazz classes previously.
Price: 240kr
✤ Solo Dance with Mariel: Solo Jazz meets Tap Dance ✤
Authentic Jazz and Tap are closely linked, with many of the most classic Jazz steps originating in tap dancing. Mariel will bring the two worlds together in a wonderful mix of tricky tap rhythms and exciting jazz steps. It will be soft shoe without tap shoes and you don’t need tap experience to join.
Level guidance: Advanced Solo Jazz, meaning you should have extensive experience with Solo Jazz over several years to join.
Price: 240kr
✤ Syncopation ✤
In this class we’ll work on the fundamental concept of syncopation, a defining characteristic of swing music. We’ll break down what syncopation means, how it works, and why it’s essential to swing. You’ll learn to recognize and apply syncopated rhythms in various patterns, giving you the tools to creatively incorporate them into your dancing whenever you like.
Level guidance: We recommend that you have danced Lindy Hop at least a year or longer, to join this workshop.
Price: 320kr
✤ Learn musicality with Swing City House Band ✤
In this workshop led by Mariel & Manuel, you will have the opportunity to learn directly from professional swing musicians. The musicians will share how they put together a good swing song and how they think about making the music dynamic and groovy, so it makes you want to get out on the floor. Mariel & Manuel will share their view as dancers on how you can let the music inspire your movement, which will both improve your dancing and make it much more fun! And you will of course be dancing to live music all through this workshop!
Level guidance: The ideas and exercises in this workshop will challenge both seasoned Lindy Hoppers as well as newcomers to the dance.
Price: 430kr

Where is it happening?

Ørnevej 33, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark, Ørnevej 33, 2400 København NV, Danmark,Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher Happy Feet Studio

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