Doors Open and Check-in

Class Inspiration Stations with All instructors (Level 1)

Get ready to be inspired as you spend 10 minutes with each instructor sharing their distinctive take on solo jazz.

Evening Dance with The Gordon Webster Band

Performances and Advanced Prelims during first band break

Performance and Open Prelims during second band break

Doors Close

After party

Bring some snacks or drinks to share!

Doors Open and Check-in

Stretch Class with Caroline (Level 1)

Join us on Saturday morning for a well-deserved stretch break! This class will draw from an eclectic movement background to get you engaging and releasing your muscles, breathing, relaxing, and ready for a full day of dancing. Caroline McBride is a dancer, Pilates instructor, and a physical therapist.

The Art of Doing Nothing with Ana Lisa (Level 3)

Say less. In this class, we will explore when and how to do nothing. How to take space without moving, how to dance big and small, and how that creates a contrast to your style.

Finding your 8s with Sharon (Level 1)

When starting out with Jazz it can be tricky - maybe even bewildering - to start a step, not on 1 in the music, but on 8 or even earlier. Learn a cute routine to understand & practice this timing. Pick up fun steps from the 1930s/1940s like Fall Off The Log, Tackie Annie and Suzie Q.

A Fancy Soft-Shoe with Caleb (Level 4)

Learn one of Caleb's signature soft-shoe tap routines.

The Foundation (Hip Hop basics) with Brandon (Level 2)

The objective of this class will be to introduce everyone to the 10 basic grooves of hip hop that lead into essential movements that all beginners can start with and build from. The goal is for everyone to understand that They have to start with a groove and then Add on to their movement from there. Everyone should be able to take this concept and apply it to their lindy hop dancing.

Lessons from the Line with Ana Lisa (Level 1)

Dancing in a chorus line is not all sequins and sunshine! It requires you to think and modulate your solo jazz in unique ways that most of us might not think about when out on the floor! In this class, I will share some of the useful ways it has challenged my dancing and some of the cool lessons it has taught me.

Spicy Charleston with Sharon (Level 3)

Learn some intricate variations and spice up the rhythms in your 1920s Charleston.

Rhythmic Romb Rumble with Brandon (Level 4)

The objective of this class will be to allow participants to become more comfortable playing with altering rhythms or percussions. The participants should feel more relaxed adding rhythmic variations to their improvisation as opposed to only doing it on special occasions or as part of an exercise. They will also be given a combination to work on the retention of their physical skills and allow them to naturally find places in their movement to vary rhythm.

Commercial Hip Hop with Kevin (Level 2)

Jump into this class covering hip hop musicality, footwork, and word play.

Lunch Break

History with Hannah

Bring your lunch over to the Rose Room for a presentation on the intersection of jazz history, burlesque, chorus line, and especially shake dance from researcher Hannah Lane.

Jazz for the Stage, Darling with Sharon (Level 2)

Performing jazz for a non-dance audience is a totally different vibe. Learn some of Sharon’s top crowd-pleasing, upbeat happy steps to inject into performances for burlesque, cabaret, theatre, film or television. All levels are welcome to this class, easier options will be offered for the less experienced and harder variations for more advanced dancers.

Limited Vocabulary with Maximum Efficiency with Ana Lisa (Level 1)

Maybe you don’t have a bevy of fancy moves. Maybe your mind runs blank when you are out on the floor dancing solo. In those moments it's important to work with what you got! In this class, we will look at the idea of making our most basic moves (walking, pivots, box steps, etc.) pack the most bang for our buck.

Tap Dance for Solo Jazzers with Caleb (Level 1)

Learn to translate your experience and skills as a Vernacular Jazz dancer into the foundational elements of Tap Dance. Tap shoes not required, leather soles preferred.

LMA for the African Diaspora with Brandon (Level 3)

The objective of this class will be to support participants in their understanding of how to integrate Laban Movement Analysis qualities and approaches to their solo jazz practice. As we support students in doing this we will make it clear that the framework was created by someone who had done mostly Eurocentric dances and was not made with the African Diasporic movement in mind. However, due to this fact we will be attempting to bring it into new territory.

Slow & Sensual with Sharon (Level 3)

Where jazz meets burlesque. Challenge yourself to move with intensity. Introduce elegance into body parts you might be neglecting, like your hands and feet. Consider how to direct the audience’s gaze and command the stage.

From the 1920 to 2000s (Jazz and Hip Hop) with Brandon (Level 1)

The objective of this class will be to allow participants to notice how easy it is to link solo jazz movements to current hip hop steps due to the fact that both movements derive from the same family tree of ancestral black movement. This allows for both styles to compliment each other's sentences.

Tap Dance for Solo Jazzers 2: More Steps with Caleb (Level 2)

Round 2! More steps, more technical ideas, and ways to translate Vernacular Jazz experience into effective, dynamic Tap Dance material.

Commercial Hip Hop Part 2 with Kevin (Level 3)

Dive into some more modern Hip Hop dance with Kevin

Doors Open

Beginner Lesson

Evening Dance with the Gordon Webster Band

Performances and Open Finals during first band break

Performances and Advanced Finals during second band break

Doors Close

After party

Bring your own drinks, food, snacks!

Doors Open

Bill "Bojangles"Robinson Material with Caleb (Level 3)

Class will be built on the technical, aesthetic, and philosophical approach of legendary tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Tap shoes not required, leather soles preferred.

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Jazz Class on Muscle Usage) with Brandon (Level 1)

The objective of the class will be to allow everyone to play with making different shapes to execute vernacular solo jazz steps. We will explore this by having everyone zoom in on different body parts and muscles while drilling various steps.

Multi Style Blender with Ana Lisa (Level 4)

Let's mix it all together in this class combining a wide range of influences and styles.

Top Down with Ana Lisa (Level 2)

Why do the legs and feet get all the glory? Let's show the arms some love! Can we tell a story with our upper half? Can we do a multitude of upper body variations and let the bottom half stay steady? Let's find out!

Endless Play with Half Breaks with Sharon (Level 2)

Let’s use Half Breaks as a vehicle to explore creativity, style and rhythmic possibility, the way chorusline dancers did in the jazz age. So many legendary jazz headliners started out in the chorus! Use a simple chorusline staple like Half Breaks, to ignite your imagination and stand out from the crowd.

Fast Choreography with Caleb (Level 4)

Learn a piece of fast Vernacular Jazz choreography from Caleb.

Lunch Break

POC Meetup

Discussion with Kevin R Harris

Led by Ryan Swift, a discussion with Kevin Harris about the evolution of black dance forms, his own life, and more.

Ecstatic Jazz with Sharon (Level 4)

Learn a jazz routine with lots of full body action in three dimensional space, ecstatic arms and full force joy. Expect to sweat!

Slow Choreography with Caleb (Level 3)

Learn a piece of slow(ish) Vernacular Jazz choreography from Caleb.

Deep breathe in and out with Brandon (Level 2)

The objective of this class will be to tell everyone the difference between static and dynamic stretching followed by walking them through conditioning movement that will relax all the main muscle groups that have been worked on through the week.

Homework Assignment

Let's wrap up the weekend with a brief discussion with all our instructors.

Pizza Party

DJed Dance

After Party