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Blues Dance Foundational Syllabus
Designed for 1 hour drop-in lessons
Target: beginning to intermediate students
Role-neutral Instruction: you are encouraged to learn both Lead and Follow
Dancing with Consent!
1. STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
1.1 Explicit Weight Changes: collecting unweighted foot
1.2 Moving from the Emotive Core
1.3 Driving, rather than stepping
2. AESTHETIC ELEMENTS
2.1 Blues Heart-beat
2.2 Potential for Lag
2.3 Pulsing vs Weight Changes
2.4 Traditional: Juking, Pendulum
2.5 Borrowed: Jazz breaks, Pops
3. PHYSICAL CONNECTION
3.1 Lead sets frame; Follow controls connection
3.2 Open Connection; tonal range
3.3 Closed Frame; shape, torso movement
3.4 Close Embrace; finding your core
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