Lindy Hop Workshops

Sponsored by Syracuse Swing Dance Society

Fridays, September 11, 25 and October 9, 1998
S.U. Dance Studio

Between workshop sessions, practice sessions with recorded swing music are planned by S.U. Ballroom Dance Organization (BDO) CANCELED.

You don't need a partner. Everyone will be partnered randomly and then partners will rotate frequently during the workshops. No swing dance experience is necessary to take the first workshop. Please bring a change of shoes (tennis shoes recommended) to protect the dance floor.

Schedule

Registration and Fees

$8 per workshop or $15 for a session (2 workshops same day).
For more workshop information please contact Steve Ryan, 434 9503.

This program is made possible with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts as part of its decentralization program, administered in Onondaga County by the Cultural Resources Council.

Instructors: Paul Overton and Sharon Ashe from San Francisco, CA.

Schedule:

Saturday, Oct. 24 (All Levels, No experience necessary)
Bev. J. Martin Elementary School - corner of Buffalo & Albany St., enter through the playground side of the school. (This is the same gym we held Frankie Manning's workshops).

11am - 12:30 Lindy Hop basics
12:30 pm -1:30 lunch break - bagels, etc
1:30 pm - 3:00 Continuing basics
3:30 - 5:00 "Swing Dancing & Musicality - The music is what you're dancing to."
9 pm - 12 mn LINDY HOP dance at the City Health Club (402 W Green St). $4 cover ($2 HS and under).

Sunday, Oct. 25 (Intermediate/Advanced Level)
Place: Montessori School, E. King Rd, Ithaca

noon - 1:30 Interm/Advanced lindy hop
2:30 - 4:00 Lindy Hop styling - beyond the steps.

Workshop fee (no pre-registration):

$12 one workshop, $10 each add'l (discount applied either day).
All day Saturday: $30.
All in pass: $45 ($50 value).
Teens $6 each class.

Some more important information regarding the Oct. 24-25 lindy hop workshops with Paul and Sharon:

• registration will take place at the following times: Saturday, 10:30 - 11 AM; Sunday, 11:30 - noon. If you want to be sure to get in please arrive as early as possible. We cannot guarantee that we can accomodate everyone.
• if you are coming from out of town (i.e. driving one hour or more) then we will be sure to hold open extra spaces for you.
• All of Saturday's workshops are open to newcomers, and recommended for experienced dancers (esp. the Musicality workshop)
• For Sunday's workshop, the guidelines are: you should be dancing lindy hop for a year or more and have completed at least two levels of lindy hop courses (not just workshops), or by special permission.

GOOD NEWS! -- we will definitely hold a LINDY HOP dance on Saturday night - from 9 pm till midnight - at the City Health Club (402 W Green St). $4 cover ($2 HS and under).

Would you like to help out, and earn free or reduced admission to the weekend's events?? Read on...

Volunteers are needed in the following capacity:

• A co-volunteer coordinator to work with Melanie-Claire (the registration goddess!). In her words: " This would mostly involve backing me up, knowing the answers to all the questions ... and helping get people to volunteer in the first place." Earn free admission to ALL workshops.
• Help with registration (you cannot work during the same workshop you wish to attend).
Earn one free workshop admission for each workshop you help with.
• Volunteer needed to coordinate the door at the dance Sat. night (i.e. get other volunteers to watch the door). Earn free admission.
• Two volunteers to help out at the Sat. night dance - one with set-up (8:30) , one with clean up (midnight). Earn free admission.
• Volunteers needed to watch the door for 1/2 hour at the dance (earn free admission).

Hello dancers.

Here is some IMPORTANT INFORMATION about next weekend's lindy hop workshops with Paul Overton & Sharon Ashe. (please help spread the word!!).

In order to accomodate the large turnout we expect next weekend we have changed the location of Saturdays workshops only...

Instead of the Montessori School, we will be at the Bev. J. Martin Elementary School - corner of Buffalo & Albany St., enter through the playground side of the school. (This is the same gym we held Frankie Manning's workshops).

The location for the Sat. night dance (the City Health Club) as well as the Sunday workshops (the Montessori School) will remain the same.

Please note that Sunday is for experienced dancers only. If you have not been dancing & studying lindy hop *regularly* for the past 6 months or more, please do not register for these workshops. We reserve the right to ask participants to leave (with full refund) if they are not in an appropriate level.

If you are coming from out of town and you need a place to stay please contact Lauren Pecoraro at 387-9283 or Email: lkp8@cornell.edu.

If you are coming from out of town and would like to reserve a space in Saturday's workshops please contact Melanie-Claire Mallison: mallison@cnf.cornell.edu, or call 272-1761. If you have already contacted me, please also contact Melanie to be sure you are already on the list.

We need your help!!! Volunteers are still needed to watch the door for 1/2 hour at the Sat. night dance (free admission). There are 40 volunteer slots to fill for Sat. & Sunday registration!! It's fun, and besides, you get in for free!! Please help us out if you like these workshops to happen, we can't do it all ourselves! If are one of the more experienced dancers then you can work Saturday and get Sunday's workshops for free. And vice versa. Please contact Melanie-Claire Mallison at mallison@cnf.cornell.edu, or call 272-1761.

If anyone would like to help with transporting the large fan to BJM for Saturday's workshops we'll offer you two free workshops. Please contact Greg Perreault at 387-6083 or Email: gregp@lightlink.com. Visiting out of town family members are welcomed as observers on SAturday (you can sit in the balcony). Please register at the desk. That's all for now . - Bill, workshop coordinator.

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