20:00 – 21:00 Community Practice Sessions
This block we are trying out something new. Every Tuesday that we are teaching at De Nieuwe Anita, our community members organise a donation-based practice session. Every week a special topic chosen by our talented dancers and you can chose to join every session separately, or just come to the social afterwards.
Suggested donation: € 5 to support the venue and dance school. A QR-code will be present by which you can make a donation.
What is the level of the practice sessions?
The community practice sessions are for those who are a bit more experienced dancers. You should have your basic footwork and groove in dancing. But it can be helpful for beginners as well to practice their basics. Bear in mind that practice sessions are structured a little differently from the lessons — although community members will be there to introduce the topic and offer some guidance, the emphasis is on learning, practicing and exploring together in a less formal setting!
Community practice session schedule
Our schedule will follow soon!
We will start with the first session on January 20th.
On the first Tuesday of the month we will do a monthly beginner crash course and there will be no Community Practice Session that day. On live music days there will also be no Community Practice Session. But Tuesday night is blues night at De Nieuwe Anita!
Dates for the Community Practice Sessions:
We have a blues dancing social every Tuesday, what we do before the social differs per week. This is the schedule for our Community Practice Session.
You can read more about our weekly social dancing here.
January 20th – welcome (back) to the blues
Our first community practice session after the winter break will be especially for all our beginning blues dancers! We’ll dedicate this hour to repeating some fundamentals that you may have forgotten over the holidays and spend extra time on specific questions or themes that you want to spend more time on. Though it’s not as thorough and intensive as a from-scratch crash course, it will be built to reignite your enthusiasm for blues and give you the confidence to get back on the dancefloor!
January 20, 27
February 10, 17, 24
March 17, 24
March 10 live music party (no practice session)
April 14, 21, 28
May 12, 19, 26
June 9, 16, 23, 30
July 7 End of block party: No practice session but a live music party at De Nieuwe Anita
Do you want to teach a practice session?
Awesome, we are looking forward to your creativity. It can be practicing a cool move you saw in a video, or practice turning, or do a talk on musicality in blues. Don’t hesitate to talk to any of us at the social or reach out to us at thebluesjoint@gmail.com.