WCS for LINDY HOP DANCERS!
A specialized crash course!
3 Fridays • May 9, 16, 23 • 7:00pm
Specialized focus for ultra-fast learning
Become good at WCS instantly, and improve your Lindy Hop at the same time (thanks to some brilliant technique overlap)
Friday, February 7, 7:00–9:00 pm (or 9:20 if you've got the stamina)
PREREQUISITE: AdvBeginner Lindy Hop on up (or WCS AdvBeg). Must be well acquainted with 8-count SwingOuts (aka Whips).
INSTRUCTOR: Ken Kreshtool, who teaches WCS and dances Lindy Hop. "The best instructor I've ever had in anything!" — Harvard Univ. students' comments, 6 years in a row, for his on-campus dance classes (while working on a PhD there). Videos: scroll down
LOCATION: Studios 353
353 W. 48th St (betw 8th & 9th Ave), Manhattan. 2nd Fl, Studio #3
CLASS SIZE STRICTLY LIMITED!
As of Thur. Feb 6, 4:45PM: only 1 Follower space remains! (Leaders is SOLD OUT)
PRICE:
• $45 thru Feb 6 (on Feb 7: $50) except…
• $15 for Lindy Hop teachers, or you are a dance studio employee.
ZELLE: Kenneth Kreshtool | [email protected]
VENMO: @Ken-Kreshtool
PREREQUISITE: AdvBeginner Lindy Hop on up (or WCS AdvBeg). Must be well acquainted with 8-count SwingOuts (aka Whips).
INSTRUCTOR: Ken Kreshtool, who teaches WCS and dances Lindy Hop. "The best instructor I've ever had in anything!" — Harvard Univ. students' comments, 6 years in a row, for his on-campus dance classes (while working on a PhD there). Videos: scroll down
LOCATION: Studios 353
353 W. 48th St (betw 8th & 9th Ave), Manhattan. 2nd Fl, Studio #3
CLASS SIZE STRICTLY LIMITED!
As of Thur. Feb 6, 4:45PM: only 1 Follower space remains! (Leaders is SOLD OUT)
PRICE:
• $45 thru Feb 6 (on Feb 7: $50) except…
• $15 for Lindy Hop teachers, or you are a dance studio employee.
ZELLE: Kenneth Kreshtool | [email protected]
VENMO: @Ken-Kreshtool
WHAT WE'LL DO IN THIS INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
Part 1 - WCS for real, fast, from the inside. Which will also improve your Lindy Hop. Learn how every WCS move is built from mixing-matching just 4 simple Lego-like partnered-movement “building blocks”. Or maybe 5, depending on how you count them. Yes: *partnered* movement aka connection-based movement, which is totally different (and much easier) than faking partnered-movement by doing solo movement while holding hands.
This is WCS's secret "Master Recipe." Understand this and every move — all passes, whips/swingouts, tucks, pushes — falls into place so fast! We'll start with this, and build as much complexity as we can get to.
We'll also learn super helpful in-your-body technique skills, focusing on getting maximum brilliance from minimal effort! Let’s play!
Along the way, we'll point out where WCS & Lindy Hop are identical, and where they differ.
Part 2 (brief: 15 mins). Lindy Hop-to-WCS: a quick-n-dirty conversion primer. Change these 4 things, and it's almost WCS! 2 are simple; 2 take some getting used to.
Plus a few words on the differences from both a historical perspective and a “dance engineering” aka “dance logic” perspective.
Questions: [email protected]
Part 1 - WCS for real, fast, from the inside. Which will also improve your Lindy Hop. Learn how every WCS move is built from mixing-matching just 4 simple Lego-like partnered-movement “building blocks”. Or maybe 5, depending on how you count them. Yes: *partnered* movement aka connection-based movement, which is totally different (and much easier) than faking partnered-movement by doing solo movement while holding hands.
This is WCS's secret "Master Recipe." Understand this and every move — all passes, whips/swingouts, tucks, pushes — falls into place so fast! We'll start with this, and build as much complexity as we can get to.
We'll also learn super helpful in-your-body technique skills, focusing on getting maximum brilliance from minimal effort! Let’s play!
Along the way, we'll point out where WCS & Lindy Hop are identical, and where they differ.
Part 2 (brief: 15 mins). Lindy Hop-to-WCS: a quick-n-dirty conversion primer. Change these 4 things, and it's almost WCS! 2 are simple; 2 take some getting used to.
Plus a few words on the differences from both a historical perspective and a “dance engineering” aka “dance logic” perspective.
Questions: [email protected]
Videos of Ken dancing with Paula Wilson, my long-time co-teacher. One dance is slower, smoother. One is a bit 'punchier.' These are 100% improvisational. We handed the DJ a list of 6 different songs and said, "please pick any one."
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Thank you! We look forward to seeing you!