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Hi Everyone. In lieu of recent events, the Saturday workshop “Style Through Rhythm” will be suspended. Refunds will be issued to all pre-registrants. Please keep us with Nathan Bugh and I at our facebook group: Swing Dance with Nathan & Gaby for further updates about classes and workshops. Be well everyone

Saturday, March 14, 2020
12:00-4:30pm
Pearl Studio, 519 8th Ave — 12th Fl, Studio G

Let’s think beyond 6 count and 8 count swing! Let’s aim to personalize the way you dance and find something new to bring to the conversation.

This workshop explores ways students can find their own voice through exploring different rhythms and dancing them out in the context of an improvised dance.

RSVP on Facebook here

Schedule

12:00 PM – 1:00PM
Rhythm Legos

1:00 – 2:00PM
Phrasing in Rhythm 

> Break! <

2:30 – 3:30PM
Rhythmic Treasures – Variations on Basic Moves

3:30 – 4:30PM
What are you Syncing about? Finding harmony with your partner

Pricing & Registration

Full Day (4 hours): $45 or 4 class punches
Half Day (2 hours): $25 or 2 class punches
Single 1 hour workshop: $15 or 1 class punch

Pre-register Online (links below)

Full Day Workshop (4 hrs)

Half Day Workshop (2 hrs)

Single 1 hour Workshop

Pre-register with a Class Card

If you’d like to use your class card to pre-register, you must present your class card in person at Nathan & Gaby’s weekly class on Tuesday evenings. (Note: you do not need to attend the Tuesday evening class).

Saturday, February 22, 2020
12:00-4:30pm (details below)
Pearl Studio, 519 8th ave
12th Floor, Studio F

Let’s start with the single most requested workshop topic: Authentic Jazz. This workshop will aims to teach the fundamental vocabulary that defines the dance.

Join us for the first half of the day where we’ll address the fundamental steps of early jazz dance – Charleston, Apple Jacks, Susie Q, Shorty George and more. The second half of the day will explore personalization of steps, unique rhythms and a a choreography to bring things together.

RSVP on Facebook here

Schedule

12:00 PM – 1:00PM
Charleston every which way

1:00 – 2:00PM
The vocabulary of authentic jazz

> Break! <

2:30 – 3:30PM
Unique rhythms and break steps

3:30 – 4:30PM
Authentic jazz choreography

Pricing & Registration

Full Day (4 hours): $45 or 4 class punches
Half Day (2 hours): $25 or 2 class punches
Single 1 hour workshop: $15 or 1 class punch

Pre-register Online (links below)

Full Day Workshop (4 hrs)

Half Day Workshop (2 hrs)

Single 1 hour Workshop

Pre-register with a Class Card

If you’d like to use your class card to pre-register, you must present your class card in person at Nathan & Gaby’s weekly class on Tuesday evenings. (Note: you do not need to attend the Tuesday evening class).

Ever feel like there’s something you missed in your Lindy hop classes? Ever have a move you feel like you “fake” every time it comes up. Feel like you want a breakthrough in your swing dancing, but don’t know where to start?

Back to Basics is a bootcamp style workshop that examines swing technique for high level dancing. We’ll take features of basic swing and apply advanced movement techniques to open up new possibilities in performance, style, and speed.

These four 50-min workshops are designed to help students improve in specific and meaningful ways. Our goal is to help you improve quickly and efficiently.

RSVP on Facebook here

Schedule

12:00 PM – 12:50PM
The Legs Do the Work: Rhythm and Weight Changes

1:00 – 1:50PM
Dance with Me: Connection and Posture

2:00 – 2:50PM
What Comes Next: Syntax and Flow

3:00 – 3:50PM
Putting it All Together: Find your groove

Pricing & Registration

Full Day (4 hours): $45 or 4 class punches
Single 50-min workshop: $15 or 1 class punch

Pre-register Online

Full Day:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/45

Single 50-min Workshop:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/15

Pre-register with a Class Card

If you’d like to use your class card to pre-register, you must present your class card in person at Nathan & Gaby’s weekly class on Tuesday evenings. (Note: you do not need to attend the Tuesday evening class).

Gaby Cook teaches a special one day workshop for lindy hoppers who want to boost their solo jazz skills! This workshop will focus on solo jazz in the framework of improvisation and jam circles.

If you want to improve your solo jazz dancing, or simply need new creative fuel for your partnered dancing — this is a great workshop for you.

Space is limited & pre-registration is recommended

RSVP on Facebook here

After the workshop, attend Uptown Saturday Night Swing Dance, 7-11pm
at the National Black Theatre Inc
2031 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10035

Schedule

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Fundamentals (open level)
In the first part of the day, we’ll focus on the key components of solo jazz. This includes:
• Defining features of authentic jazz movement
• Core vocabulary of the idiom
• Introduction to improvisation

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Break

2:30-4:30
Develop and Create
In the second part of the day, we’ll use our new skills to build material and steps that
• Mixing choreography & improvisation
• Development of unique solo jazz steps
• Building an individual movement style
• Sharing and responding: the jam circle

NOTE: To participate in Part 2, students must have either attended the first portion of the day, or be comfortable performing the material in Shim Sham.

Pricing & Registration

Full Day (4 hours): $45 or 4 class punches
2 Hour Workshop: $25 or 2 class punches

Pre-register Online

Full Day:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/45

2 Hour Workshop:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/25

Pre-register with a Class Card

If you’d like to use your class card to pre-register, you must present your class card in person at Nathan & Gaby’s weekly class on Tuesday July 23. (Note: you do not need to attend the Tuesday evening class).

If you are unable to present your class card on July 23, please contact gaby at hello@nathanandgaby.com and write in the workshops you’d like to attend.

Gaby Cook teaches a special one day workshop for lindy hoppers who want to boost their following skills! This ALL-LEVELS workshop will address a wide range of topics from individual movement, to frame and connection, to creativity and variations. If you want to improve your dancing, or feel like you’ve plateaued — join us for this unique day of workshops to push your dancing to the next level.

Space is limited & pre-registration is recommended

Schedule

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Essential Movement Principles for Followers

To achieve expert-level following, we first need to address the key skills in lindy hop movement. Topics include turning, swing rhythm, balance, weight changes, and posture.

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Technical Following: Frame, Movement and Shared Balance

Once we’ve explored individual movement, the next question arises — how can we best connect movement from the individual to the partnership. In this class, we’ll explore frame and the ways movement ideas are communicated through the partnership and how those movement ideas are acted out on the followers end.

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Creative Following: Every Follower Variation You’ve Ever Wanted or Needed to Know

Bring creativity and playfulness to your lindy hop vocabulary through variations! We’ll learn rhythm based variations to bring color and variety into your dancing!

Pricing & Registration

Full Day (4 hours): $45
1 Hour Workshop: $15
1.5 Hour Workshops: $20

Pre-register Online

Full Day:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/45

1 Hour Workshop:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/15

1.5 Hour Workshop:
www.paypal.me/jazzasmovement/20

Pre-register with a Class Card

If you’d like to use your class card to pre-register, you must present your class card in person at Nathan & Gaby’s weekly class on Tuesday May 7. (Note: you do not need to attend the Tuesday evening class).

If you are unable to present your class card on May 7th, please contact gaby at hello@nathanandgaby.com and write in the workshops you’d like to attend.

Sunday September 17, 2017

1:00 – 5:00pm at Ripley Grier
520 8th Ave, 16th fl, studio 16 U

If you’re a Lindy Hop fanatic, you’ve undoubtably enjoyed one of Erin Morris’s workshops at Stompology, Beantown Dance Camp or Swing Riot. Whether she’s on stage or in the classroom, she brings a fierce and unique style to her dance performance. This is your chance to meet one of the country’s most sought-after voices in solo Jazz.

PRICES

Online: 2 hr workshop: $30 – no longer available
Online 4 hr workshop: $50 – a few spots left!!

DAY OF PRICES: 2 hr workshop $35 (2 hrs)
DAY OF PRICES: 4 hr workshop $60 (4 hrs)

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

1pm: Musicality & Flow (All Levels) 

Learn Erin’s special “Take It Easy” chorus with beautiful basic vocab everyone needs to know, and then kick it up a notch with musicality, theory, phrasing, and improvisation. The truly perfect “all levels” solo jazz sampler!

3pm: Choose Your Own Adventure (ambitious / Intermediate)

We’ll practice interweaving Erin’s original choreography with your own style, steps, and ideas. We’ll explore lots of exercises together designed to tune you into your body and the music. Intermediate/advanced but all are welcome!

Tuesday February 28

7:00 – 10:00pm at Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th, Studio 601

Drop-in $20
12-Class Card $180 ($15 per hour)

Join us for the last Tuesday of the month, where we’ll welcome the extraordinary Michael Jagger to teach 3 one-off workshops for students at an intermediate to advanced level

Saturday February 18

1:00 – 4:00pm at Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th, Studio 601

Join us for a Lindy Hop Intensive with Bobby White and Gaby Cook. Over two 90-minute workshops, we’ll present new approaches to social dance for the experienced Lindy Hopper.

ADVANCED SOCIAL DANCING
1:00 – 2:30PM