Finding The Flow
The flow is when you maintain the fluidity of the movement throughout the dance, shaping it into the the aesthetic and rhythm of your favourite style.
As partners, you find the flow when you use stretch, direction and momentum to preserve the energy of the dance and to end each move with the intention of starting the next one.
Every dance style started with the music and the inspiration of two dancers bending the rules.
Our difference
Learning steps and figures is a very comforting way of learning a dance, but it can lead to missing the flow as you focus on the mathematics of the dance.
In our classes, we use the flow to first help you move with confidence, and we integrate the ‘rules of the dance’ next as a variation of your natural movements.
Our teaching method accelerates your learning. Join one of our drop-in, all levels classes, we tailor the content to your own experience.
Followers
Own your dance, but do not dance on your own
Leaders
Don’t lead your followers, lead yourself and listen
Growing your technique
Every dance is a conversation composed of a sequence of plays, starting with an opening and concluding with a stretch (or a compression).
Our teaching method elevates the quality of your dance by helping you master the opening and the stretch, keep with the beat and use your core to connect with your partner.
As you grow as a dancer, you will want to become familiar with concepts like:
- Frame, grounding and body isolation
- Counter-tension and projection
- Presence and momentum
- Intention and commitment
- Posture and the 3 frames
- Balance and elasticity
- Contact points and triggers
- Dissociation and the Double-T
- Geographies of movement, the 3 tracks and the North star
- Music structure (bars, sets, phrases, introduction, verses and chorus, instruments)
You feel that your dance has reached a plateau? Try one of the following:
- Experiment with steps and rhythms
- Accelerate or slow down your dance
- Try height, arms, expressions or orientation variations
- Start styling what you are good at
- Swap your steps (e.g. dance single steps instead of triples and vice versa)
- Try 20 variations of the same move
- Join practice sessions and ask for feedback from your teachers
- Take private lessons
- Watch dance videos from recognized dancers
- Join week-enders and international workshops
- Attend a dance competition
- Join a show group
- Volunteer in your local community as helper or taxi dancer
- Try other dance styles and visit classes from other teachers
Use the six dimensions of dancing to reflect on your dance and achieve harmony as a dancer, as a dance partner and with the environment.
Postures
Postures is about how we root our frame into the ground, developing different body shapes that invite stillness or movement
Connection
Connection is how we communicate in the dance couple, building a continuous and unique conversation
Musicality
Musicality is the ultimate dimension, the one that binds them all into the complete harmony
Style
Styles is about how we express our inner dancer in harmony with our body and soul
Alignment
Alignment is how we create a smooth partner flow by giving clear orientations to our intentions and our movements
Floorcraft
Floor craft is how we blend into our spatial environment and explore the floor and the volumes around us
Our inspirations
Our teaching method is based on the goal-based approach from international swing teacher Ali Taghavi and the Shu-Ha-Ri-Kokoro theory popularised by Alistair Cockburn.
Through the years, we have also been greatly impressed and inspired by international master teachers, too many to list here but among them Ron & Sharon, Mimmi & Fredrik, and Lisa & Fabien from swing and blues, Maxence & Virginie and Jang from west coast swing, Jenny & Ricardo and Juan Cantone from tango, and Adam Nathanson from leroc/modern jive, to whom we are forever thankful.
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