Dance for Joy! presents
A Collaborative Cross-step Waltz Weekend!
September 13, 14 and 15, 2024
Join us for an extraordinary weekend of learning where the instructors will not only teach but collaborate with each other developing your Cross-step Waltz repertoire while creating and developing the genre.
With Richard Powers, Stanford University, Nick and Melissa Enge, UT at Austin, and your friends Lilli Ann and Claire Carey. Richard will be partnered by Melissa, Lilli Ann or Claire.
With 12 hours of instruction, catered Saturday lunch and three dances! Cost $185.
Pre-requisite: Comfortable with waltz basics, Cross-step waltz experience preferred. This workshop weekend is not recommended for beginning dancers.
* COURSE FILLED! Email Lilli Ann to be placed on the waitlist!
Workshop is at Om Culture, 2210 N Pacific Street, Seattle.
Tentative Schedule — subject to change |
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Friday night |
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6–7pm |
How Richard teaches Cross-step WaltzGreat review and methodology. |
7–8:30pm |
Building Moves from Cross-step BasicsEach partner team will offer a different move based on the chosen Cross-step Waltz basic and then each partner team can jump on to any offered variation with adaptations if they wish. |
8:30-10:30pm |
Nick Enge will be your DJ for the Dance |
Saturday |
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10-1pm |
Adapting Moves With a 20-minute Break — All InstructorsAdapting moves from other dances to Cross-step Waltz — WCS, Salsa, NC2-step… |
1-2:15pm |
Catered Lunch — Lunch talk with all instructorsGluten-free and vegan options available How move creators/instructors think about creating moves- i.e. Direction, momentum, preps, what’s possible given what feet are available, what’s socially lead and followable... We will also draw a name previously submitted by one of the workshop participants and adapt a move offered from them as the group of instructors discusses what we consider. |
2:30–5pm |
Instructors Recent Favorite Social Moves — Show Them, Teach ThemThese will be from anywhere including from far afield places these instructors have taught.) |
2:30-3:15pm |
Richard |
3:15-4pm |
Nick and Melissa |
4–4:15pm |
Short break |
4:15-5pm |
Lilli Ann and Claire |
5–7pm |
Dinner on your own.The hall will be open if you’d like to stay during this time. |
Pre-dance Lesson Short Bites — A Line Dance, a Cross-step Move. Instructors Choice. |
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7pm |
Pre-dance lesson by Nick and Melissa |
7:30pm |
Pre-dance lesson by Richard |
8–11pm |
Richard Powers will be your DJ for the Dance |
Sunday Review — Instructors Choice, Favs From the Weekend |
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11:30am-12:45pm |
Nick and Melissa Favs from the weekend |
1–2:15pm |
Richard Favs |
2:30–3:45pm |
Lilli Ann and Claire's favs |
4-6pm |
Lilli Ann will be your DJ for the Dance |
Instructors
Richard Powers
Full-time instructor in dance history and contemporary social dance forms, Stanford University Dance Division, Department of Theater and Performance Studies.
His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms.
Nick & Melissa Enge
Nick and Melissa Enge are social dance instructors and historians at the University of Texas at Austin. Before teaching at UT, they studied and taught with Richard Powers at Stanford University. In collaboration with Richard, they have written three books on social dance, Waltzing: A Manual for Dancing and Living, Cross-Step Waltz: A Dancer’s Guide, and The Book of Mixers: 100 Easy-Teach Dances for Getting Acquainted.
In addition to teaching and writing about dance, Nick and Melissa are co-founders of the Library of Dance (a website that features an annotated bibliography of over 6,700 primary sources relating to social dance from the 15th century to present as well as over 2,400 videos demonstrating selected dance steps), and the University of Dance (a website featuring full-length teaching videos of selected dances).
In 2023, they won the Undergraduate Teaching Award in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at UT.
Lilli Ann Carey / Owner-Instructor, Dance for Joy!
Lilli Ann Carey began partner dancing with Living Traditions in the 1990’s and then went on to teach for them for several years before leaving to start her own company, Dance for Joy! Lilli Ann loves to dance almost anything, but focuses her teaching on Waltz, East Coast Swing, Foxtrot, One-Step, Blues, Fusion and a few vintage dance forms.
Lilli Ann promotes dance through classes, workshops and events through her company, Dance for Joy! She is known for producing larger scale events including the An Evening in Vienna Viennese Balls, The Cornucopia Balls and Christmas Balls and also as the co-ordinator of the highly successful Dancing 'til Dusk program for Seattle Parks and Recreation for 16 years. Lilli Ann has taught for over 20 years including in St. Petersburg, Russia; Vancouver, BC; Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage Alaska; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Atlanta, the Bay area and in Portland, Oregon.
Her creativity, love of the connected and playful dance and innovation has brought her national recognition and an ongoing and excited student base. You’ll often find her teaching with her daughter Claire. You may find her through her website at www.danceforjoy.biz and her Youtube channel @dancelilli
Claire Carey / Instructor, Dance for Joy!
Claire began learning swing dance at the age of seven in 1998, and began teaching partner dance in 2008. She discovered her passion for West Coast Swing in 2010, where she has achieved multiple first placements, and competed in the All Star division. She has loved teaching Cross Step Waltz, East Coast Swing, Blues, Foxtrot, Nightclub Two Step, and other vintage waltz forms in Seattle for Dance For Joy! Claire and her mom, Lilli Ann, have taught together both nationally and internationally, and are known for their fun, innovative, and technically-minded teaching. In class, Claire specializes in empowering follows to have strong skills in connection, intuition, and self expression.
