Barcelona 20-22 Octubre 2017
Drag the blues
TEACHERS
vicci moore
Adamo ciarallo
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”.
Sharon & Ron Dobrovinsky
Their aim is to create new knowledge to teach dancing. They focus on all of the elements of communication in the couple and on creating harmony and stimuli for dance. They have great capacity to simplify concepts through clarity and solid knowledge. The atmosphere they produce in their classes is amusing and professional. Ron has a thorough knowledge of the efficient use of the body, which helps the dancers to create good movement. Sharon, a saxophonist from a very early age, also strives to teach how music is felt in dance, and constantly tries to give personalised information to her pupils to help them individually. Both are regular dance teachers in Europe.
Actor and casting director, professional blues dancer, Damon is an eminence in the history and tradition of Blues. He has danced all of his life, starting with Blues and vernacular Jazz through his grandmother. Later learning and practising different dance styles, he focused mainly on the history and styles of Swing and Blues, paying special attention to the styles of the South and the Mississippi estuary region. He has researched with original dancers and is now considered one of the main figures of Blues in the world.
Whitton started dancing when she was 6. She dances Blues Dance, Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston, Ballet, Jazz, Irish social dance, Scottish dance, American folk, ballroom dance, middle age dances up to Victorian times, etc. She started to teach Blues in 2008 and since then has competed and won many titles, and has been invited to many international festivals. With her sensational isolations and shakes, she will captivate you on the dance floor!
Damon stone
Whitton frank
Fabien comes from Grenoble in France, and has been a teacher of Swing dance since 2004, specialising in Lindy Hop and Blues.
His liking of choreography and competition has brought him victory in the most important international contests. A pupil of Stephen Mitchell and Joe Demers, amongst others, for years he has travelled Europe and the USA by Lisa’s side.
Born in London and of classical training from the age of 6, she discovered her love of other dance styles while she studied. On leaving university she worked professionally in the world of commercial dance, specialising in Hip-hop. She later discovered and fell in love with Lindy Hop and Blues and has delved into all of their varieties ever since.
Fabien Vrillon
Lisa Clarke
Noemí Castell
Ferran Puig
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.
He started ballroom dancing at 16 in sports competition. In 2009, he discovered Lindy Hop and the world of Swing, and Blues/Slow Drag 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 now directs the “Swing Is in The Air” school in Tarragona and gives Lindy Hop and Blues classes at Swingmaniacs.
Ferran takes the dissemination of Blues Dance and everything around it as a personal
challenge.
Ferran and Noemí are the organisers of the Drag The Blues, which is now in its fifth edition and is one of the leading festivals in Europe.
They also develop the local community by organising jams, workshops with guest teachers, talks and unending activities to promote Blues Dance in Catalonia through the BDB (Blues Dance Barcelona) project. For further information, visit​: www.bluesdancebarcelona.com
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.