Gus
20th-April-2004, 04:12 PM
After complaining about the lack of recognition of the ‘Club Jive’ subset of MJ, I've come to the conclusion that rather than complaining about it positive action would be a good idea.
So .... I’m putting a call out to all experienced dancers who would like to contribute to developing this style. I’ve already done some work with a number of other dancers to try to work out some ideas. As a result of that I've got one finalised workshop (as taught at Glasgow and Stompin at Brighton) and the bare bones of an intermediate workshop. However, I think the time has come to widen the scope of this activity.
I’m particularly interested in any dancers with a Jazz Dance, Hip Hop, contemporary background. The idea is to try to get together in a group or groups and spend a few hours in a dance studio playing to the music and seeing what type of moves/style comes out of it.
When I talk about Club Jive I’m not referring to Urban/Hip Hop ... the music is generally too slow for MJ and better lends itself to the Lindy fusion already developed by the likes of Dan Baines and Sue Freeman. The music I have in mind is more of the like of Chocolate Puma, Sash, Craig David, Lasgo etc.
So ... anyone interested?
So .... I’m putting a call out to all experienced dancers who would like to contribute to developing this style. I’ve already done some work with a number of other dancers to try to work out some ideas. As a result of that I've got one finalised workshop (as taught at Glasgow and Stompin at Brighton) and the bare bones of an intermediate workshop. However, I think the time has come to widen the scope of this activity.
I’m particularly interested in any dancers with a Jazz Dance, Hip Hop, contemporary background. The idea is to try to get together in a group or groups and spend a few hours in a dance studio playing to the music and seeing what type of moves/style comes out of it.
When I talk about Club Jive I’m not referring to Urban/Hip Hop ... the music is generally too slow for MJ and better lends itself to the Lindy fusion already developed by the likes of Dan Baines and Sue Freeman. The music I have in mind is more of the like of Chocolate Puma, Sash, Craig David, Lasgo etc.
So ... anyone interested?