Stanford Dance Weekend June 27-29, 2008
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Social, yes, they're here. Vintage, not so much. But one can always hope ...
It will be our first time. We recently talked with someone who says he never goes to on-campus events any more because the dancers are too young and uncontrolled. I don't think that will be a problem for us ... we'll see.
And ... it seems to be rather more "ballroom" oriented than vintage:
Fusion Waltz ... new sequences of traveling waltz moves that combine elements of Latin and swing dance. Six classes in Tangowaltz, Latinwaltz, Swingwaltz, etc.
Intermediate Lindy Hop
Intermediate Salsa
Cross-Step Waltz variations
Intermediate/Advanced Cross-Step Waltz variations
Pivaloops in Rotary Waltz: new variations based on follow's spinning outside turns.
Pivaloops in Cross-Step Waltz
Dances in 5/4 time: Five-Step Waltz variations, 5-count Mazurka, 5-count Swing and Foxtrot, 5/4 Tango.
Waltzing for Waltzers
Role Reversal in Waltz
Cross-Step Troika: a new hybrid dance premiered this year.
Rotary Waltz
Intermediate/Advanced Vintage Foxtrot - faster tempos, Toddle, trickier variations, etc.
Vintage Blues
Introductory Cross-Step Waltz
Introductory Cha Cha
Intro West Coast Swing
Intermediate West Coast Swing
Intermediate Night Club Two Step
Intermediate Mazurka Waltz - some experience with redowa required
Advanced Mazurka Waltz - proficiency in redowa required
Intermediate Lindy Hop
Intermediate Salsa
Musicality workshop which creates awareness on several levels to what is in the music, with a number of ways to articulate it.
It has me wondering -- what the heck is a "Pivaloop"?
tsb
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the mazurka & rotary waltz are vintage dances. but then again, it's just a weekend; more vintage stuff tends to be offered during the "waltz" week.
yeah, you get more students and recent grads on the weekend than during the week - and the students during the week tend to be grad students.
i suspect that it's possible to fill the entire weekend with vintage oriented electives.
i think it's a basically a traveling pivot step.
So it's over. We enjoyed it, and would consider going again.
The demographics seemed to be either college student/recent grads or "mature" adults in our age bracket or older -- only a few in the middle years.
At the parties, there were some dances that might have appeared a little "wild and uncontrolled" at first glance ... usually the fast-tempo polkas or waltzes/rewodas that are compatible with speed and distance-covering movements. But most of the dancers actually had fairly decent floorcraft and could adjust quickly to avoid crashes. We saw only one almost-fall, and very few near-misses. Oh ... and it wasn't always the younger ones who moved the fastest ...
For anyone who is still wondering about pivaloops, they are "an unusual follow's pivoting outside turn, counter-intuitive because they're led with an inside sweep of the hands." I don't really know what that means because we didn't take any of those classes, and I didn't notice anything in particular at the parties (probably because I was dancing and not noticing what anyone else was doing
).
I'm a little sore - 2 hours of classes Friday, over 6 hours Saturday and 3 hours today, plus parties Friday and Saturday nights ... Then trying to do the entire weekend's worth of housework in one afternoon ... as soon as the current load of laundry is out of the dryer I'll be in bed.
Final note ... one of the waltzes they played was a new piece from Wall-E -- "Down to Earth". Very nice ....
The demographics seemed to be either college student/recent grads or "mature" adults in our age bracket or older -- only a few in the middle years.
At the parties, there were some dances that might have appeared a little "wild and uncontrolled" at first glance ... usually the fast-tempo polkas or waltzes/rewodas that are compatible with speed and distance-covering movements. But most of the dancers actually had fairly decent floorcraft and could adjust quickly to avoid crashes. We saw only one almost-fall, and very few near-misses. Oh ... and it wasn't always the younger ones who moved the fastest ...
For anyone who is still wondering about pivaloops, they are "an unusual follow's pivoting outside turn, counter-intuitive because they're led with an inside sweep of the hands." I don't really know what that means because we didn't take any of those classes, and I didn't notice anything in particular at the parties (probably because I was dancing and not noticing what anyone else was doing
).I'm a little sore - 2 hours of classes Friday, over 6 hours Saturday and 3 hours today, plus parties Friday and Saturday nights ... Then trying to do the entire weekend's worth of housework in one afternoon ... as soon as the current load of laundry is out of the dryer I'll be in bed.
Final note ... one of the waltzes they played was a new piece from Wall-E -- "Down to Earth". Very nice ....
tsb
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that was my experience as well.
At the parties, there were some dances that might have appeared a little "wild and uncontrolled" at first glance ... usually the fast-tempo polkas or waltzes/rewodas that are compatible with speed and distance-covering movements. But most of the dancers actually had fairly decent floorcraft and could adjust quickly to avoid crashes. We saw only one almost-fall, and very few near-misses. Oh ... and it wasn't always the younger ones who moved the fastest ...
For anyone who is still wondering about pivaloops, they are "an unusual follow's pivoting outside turn, counter-intuitive because they're led with an inside sweep of the hands." I don't really know what that means because we didn't take any of those classes, and I didn't notice anything in particular at the parties (probably because I was dancing and not noticing what anyone else was doing
assuming it's done within the context of the rotary step, i'm speculating that it would most closely resemble a reverve whip move from lindy or WCS going into a pivot step.