Barcelona 19-21 October 2018
Blues Dance Festival
Conditions and cancellation policy:
In the event of cancellation by the organisation, the whole amount paid will be refunded.
In the event of cancellation by the pupil:
Up to one month before the event starts: 50% refund
Up to two weeks before the event starts: 25% refund
No refunds will be made after 5th October.
Registrations (in the same role or level) or tickets may be transferred to another person by
sending a mail to bluesdancebarcelona@gmail.com only before 5 October. After this date, no
refund or name change will be accepted.
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Dexter Santos
Dexter Santos discovered blues dancing in 2005. His passion as a teacher comes from wanting to share and teach blues dancing with respect to its roots and identity and, more importantly, to celebrate its art form. He believes that, while blues dancing is, and can be, improvisational, it has an aesthetic quality that is directly linked to blues music which makes it unique.
http://dextersantos.com
Teachers
Becky Norris
Becky found blues dancing in 2012 after drunkenly agreeing to join a friend on a blues night out in London. After just one night she was hooked and went on to discover swing dancing and balboa. But blues has remained her main love. Becky has regularly taught blues since 2016 and has been a part of The Down and Outs and The Dixie Dinahs performance troupes. She’s performed and competed around Europe both alongside troupes and on her own. She’s known for her creativity, isolations and stupid jokes. Becky mainly loves being able to connect with her students and share the thing that she’s most passionate about.
Adamo Ciarallo & Vicci Moore
Vicci and Adamo are some of the most significant Blues dancers in Europe. Adamo and Vicci show incredible chemistry on the dance floor, with intensity, elegance and musicality in their dance. Their passion for Blues is obvious in their classes, which they make dynamic, energetic, creative and in which they encourage pupils to find their own style. They love to find new intuitive and interdisciplinary forms of learning, with all of the elements they can cover. They consider the body a musical instrument, and dance as the music we listen to, which helps us to discover the light of our own bodies. With their classes, you really learn to “feel the blues”.
Ksenia Parkhatskaya
Elegant, eccentric and with great personality, Ksenia is one of the most versatile artists of the current jazz world. She is a model, singer and especially a professional dancer. She started in the world of Swing at the Harlem 2011 (Vilnius), in the Jazz Battle and has been a professional ballroom dancer since 1996, and an actress and dancer of modern jazz since 2005. She works strongly on musicality, showing a great historical baggage, and has many artistic resources she brings out in her classes.
https://kseniaparkhatskaya.com
Cedric & Caroline
Since they met in 2012, Cédric and Caroline have decided to join their competences in order to develop their qualities of dancers and teachers. As well as very active on the local blues and swing scene in Strasbourg (Lindy Spot), they also go beyond borders and further and further away to dance, teach and perform.
Together, they fell in love with blues since the beggining of their partenership. They have practised and danced a lot to understand how a movement can be easily initiated, from both side of the couple, and how to adapt it to the music
Ally Yancey
Ally has been dancing since she could walk, but discovered the world of partner dancing first in 2004 when she fell in love with lindy hop. She stumbled upon blues next, and by 2007 was teaching at local weekly dances and national events along the West Coast. Since then she’s practiced several other dance and movement studies including: tango, salsa, west coast swing, contemporary dance, hip hop, and the Alexander Technique. Together these movement practices inform the dance knowledge and material that she brings to her fusion classes.
Ally loves learning about the brilliant ways that the human body works, it's anatomical design, and new ways of moving it. She incorporates basic anatomy and body mechanics into every class, helping her students not just learn to dance, but to really understand their movement. www.allydances.com.
Mark Carpenter
Mark has been dancing for much of his life. He found social dancing with lindy & blues in 2005 and began teaching shortly thereafter, co-founding the still-running Drop Dead Blues in San Luis Obispo, CA. Since then he’s organized a number of events and workshops (The * Workshop, &ATJ, SLOx, …) and traveled the world as a dancer.
In recent years he has dedicated his study to the emerging forms and conventions of “fusion” dance and is eager to explore and advance that movement via quality teaching throughout the world. He has taught at multiple events spanning four continents and in two languages.
Ferran Puig
He started ballroom dancing at 16 as sports competition. In 2009, he discovered Lindy Hop and the world of Swing, and Blues shortly after.
It is in these disciplines where he finds he maximum exponent of connection both with music and with one’s partner, and has furthered in this ever since. He gives Lindy Hop and Blues classes regulary, at the same time that he works as a Math Teacher in a high school.
Ferran takes the dissemination of Blues Dance and everything arround it as a personal challenge.
Noemí Castell
Noemí is synonymous with a restless spirit, innovation and constant learning. A dancer and dance teacher since 2001, choreographer, untiring traveller and organiser of dance festivals and events, she runs the first Blues Dance school in Barcelona: BLUE MOVE BCN.
Her technical base is the Belly Dance, but she has been trained in classical and contemporary dance and in numerous folklores from around the world. She is also a fervent practitioner of Yoga and AcroYoga. She now runs the Blue Move BCN blues school and The Blues Shakers, the first Blues company in Barcelona.