Dance Workshops
Saturday
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10.30am - 11.30am - Basic Jive
with Dee Lanning of Dynamic Dance at The British Legion Hall 11.45am - 12.45pm - Jive On! With Dee Lanning of Dynamic Dance at The British Legion Hall |
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At Dynamic Dance we believe everyone can dance, even before you set one foot into a class!
Our job is simply to help steer you in the right direction so you can grow and become the dancer you want to be! We teach social dance classes for adults, focused on getting you moving and having fun. (more details at www.dynamic-dance.uk) At Bridport Folk Festival we will be teaching an Introduction to Modern/Basic Jive. The session will last approximately 1 hour with an additional 15 minute short practice time at the end, which you can use to practice or seek out one of our crew for any additional tips. During this session we will take you through the very basics, getting your body and your feet moving as well as focusing on the lead and follow aspect of the dance. As we teach nothing more complicated than a basic step, both of your left feet are welcome to join in! No experience necessary as Dee and her crew will take you from the very first step! |
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Who is Dee?
Dee is Dynamic Dance’s Lead Instructor and Choreographer. With over 13 years teaching experience since qualifying in 2006, Dee has taught and inspired dancers all over the UK and Europe. Since moving to Bridport, she teaches weekly classes in Modern Jive and Charleston, in both Bridport and Chideock.
Dee is Dynamic Dance’s Lead Instructor and Choreographer. With over 13 years teaching experience since qualifying in 2006, Dee has taught and inspired dancers all over the UK and Europe. Since moving to Bridport, she teaches weekly classes in Modern Jive and Charleston, in both Bridport and Chideock.
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1.45pm - 2.45pm - Line Dancing
With Anne Rathbone At The British Legion Hall 3.00pm - 4.00pm - Line Dancing With Anne Rathbone At The British Legion Hall |
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he club is run by Anne and Sue who share the teaching who have classes in Bridport and Musbury.
We have an absolute beginner class in Bridport followed by an Improver class. occasionally we will attempt an easy Intermediate dance.
We very rarely deviate from Country music but will if the dance is popular elsewhere.
In February 2007. we danced a ‘marathon’ - 14 of our dancers completed a distance equivalent to a marathon in 7 hours of dancing whilst the rest managed over 20 miles each. We raised £2,250 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.
In 2017 another Marathon saw us raise £3,269 for The Air Ambulance.
We will be running two linked workshops during the folk festival, at the British Legion hall on Saturday afternoon.
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We have an absolute beginner class in Bridport followed by an Improver class. occasionally we will attempt an easy Intermediate dance.
We very rarely deviate from Country music but will if the dance is popular elsewhere.
In February 2007. we danced a ‘marathon’ - 14 of our dancers completed a distance equivalent to a marathon in 7 hours of dancing whilst the rest managed over 20 miles each. We raised £2,250 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.
In 2017 another Marathon saw us raise £3,269 for The Air Ambulance.
We will be running two linked workshops during the folk festival, at the British Legion hall on Saturday afternoon.
honkytonkstompers.co.uk
Sunday
11.00am - 11.30am - An Exhibition of Dances With A Dorset Link
With Steps in Time
At St Marys Church House Hall
11.45am - 1.00pm - Dorset Dances Workshop
With Steps in Time
At St Marys Church House Hall
With Steps in Time
At St Marys Church House Hall
11.45am - 1.00pm - Dorset Dances Workshop
With Steps in Time
At St Marys Church House Hall
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Steps in Time are a youth traditional dance group for boys and girls aged 3-15, based in North Dorset. We have an ongoing aim to keep local traditions alive by passing them on to the next generation and sharing them with the wider community. Some of the traditions we concentrate on are: many styles of traditional dance both regional and from further afield including Playford, Maypole and Morris and mummer’s plays such as St. George and the Dragon.
Our costume is in a regency style with girls wearing white dresses, coloured Spencer jackets and flowered hair garlands and boys wearing white shirts, coloured waistcoats and black breeches. |
We perform at many local events (such as Shaftesbury Food festival, Gold Hill Fair, Larmer tree, Milton Abbas, and many village events) as well as events such Swanage and Wimborne Folk festivals and the Jane Austen Festival which attracts a worldwide attendance, where we have been filmed for international TV (recently German and South Korean TV) as well as local TV & press. We have appeared on various local and national TV inc Meet the Ancestors and Ade in Britton. We were very proud to be selected to perform in the Olympic Park for both the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics (we were told by one organiser that we had the largest crowds he had seen for spectator entertainment). We have represented England at the Europeade festival (Europe’s biggest festival of folk culture) on several occasions and are doing so again this summer (July 2019).
To contact the group please email: info@stepsintime.org.uk or ring Penny-Jane on 07988908841. Feel free to visit or Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/stepsintime or
YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/stepsintimeuk
To contact the group please email: info@stepsintime.org.uk or ring Penny-Jane on 07988908841. Feel free to visit or Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/stepsintime or
YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/stepsintimeuk
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2.00pm - 4.00pm - French Dancing With Steve Earwicker Music by Confluence Folk Duo At St Marys Church House Hall |
Steve Earwicker will be teaching you to Bourrée, to Schottische, to Waltz (French style!) and perhaps even to Mazurka! We may also slip in the odd Breton dance as well. The music for the Workshop & Bal will be from Confluence – Gill Redmond on ‘cello & Alasdair Paton on accordion. We ran the French Dance Workshop and Bal at Chippenham Folk Festival in 2018 and 2019, and have appeared at several local Festivals in the South. Steve was involved in the early days of the French Music and Dance Sessions at The Nottingham Playhouse — these later became the Ockbrook French Dances, still running every month. We also organise our own EuroBal Wessex French and Breton dances at Ibsley in the New Forest and help to run the EuroBal Wessex dances at Poundbury, Dorchester.
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