This Monday (9/6/10) we will be having our monthly feedback class from 8-9 at the power plant!  The class will begin with a series of three minute dances with everyone in the class, including the instructors who will be in the rotation.  The instructors will provide students with personalized feedback after dancing with them.  Students will then have the opportunity to work on their feedback while dancing with everyone else in the class.  They may also ask other students for feedback if they wish (no unsolicited feedback will be allowed!).  Following this portion of the class the instructors will step out of the rotation and offer feedback to students as observers.

Hope to see you there!

Kayla

This week’s open class will be on micro movement as a layer to add on top of other moves. That’s right, you don’t have to stand still every time you want to do microblues! Erin and Jon will be going over a few different moves for you to play with, as well as how to enliven the rest of your dancing with microblues, in all its joyful melty-ness.

This is going to be an open class, so it’ll be taught at an intermediate level, but will also be appropriate for anyone who has taken 12 or more hours of blues dancing classes.

Hope to see you Monday!

-Kayla

Tonight’s class at PhB, open to beginners and up, is ‘The Magical Rock Step’ with Carsie and Jon. The class will show you a few different kinds of rock steps, some cool moves that use them, and how to make them feel… magical. Class 8-9pm, dancing 9-midnight, DJd by Erin and Dan.

Hope to see you there!

Tonight at PhB, we’ll be hosting our monthly feedback session from 8-9pm, open to all comers. Please bring a pad and pencil, and be prepared for personalized critique from instructors.

Dancing from 9-midnight DJd by Carsie and Dan. See you there!

Since it’s the last Monday of the month, we’ll be holding two classes. The open class will be on hearing and responding to different styles of blues music, with Carsie and Jon. The invitational class will be taught by Philly’s Dan Repsch and guest instructor Jenny Sowden from New York! Here’s the description:

Jenny and Dan have ridiculously fun dances by role-playing characters they create within a song. In Monday’s class we’ll talk about a few of the ones that Jenny and Dan commonly use, and simple ways to create rich characters of your own to dance out. It’ll be a loose but challenging hour where imagination – rather than technique – will be the focus.

After class from 8-9pm comes 3 hours of dancing to music DJd by Carsie and Dan. See you there!

Hey all! We have a few changes of plan this week. First, PhB DOES NOT START UNTIL 8:30 this Monday, July 12th. This is a one-time scheduling conflict at the Power Plant, not a permanent change.

Second, Monday is Reuel Reis’ last night in town, and he’ll be teaching an open class with Mike Legett on BLUES MOMENTUM. We all need to improve in this area, so please don’t miss it! The class will run from 8:30-9:30. This class is for “beginner plus” students; those who have taken a minimum of ten hours of blues instruction

From 9:30-Midnight, we’ll be dancing to the sweet sounds of our own Dan Repsch, along with SPECIAL GUEST BREANNA PERRY from Nashville, TN.

Feedback class today with special guest instructor Reuel Reis! Class 8-9pm. Dance 9-midnight with DJs Mike, Carsie, and Reuel. See you there!

DJs will be Reuel Reis and Dan Repsch! (instead of Reuel and Emily as previously posted)

Guest instructor Reuel and Philly’s Mike TG will be teaching an int/adv class (8pm!) on open position ballroomin’ vocabulary. The beginner class called “Shapes, Shifts, and Safety Belts”, open to all, will be taught by Dan and Erin. DJs (9-midnight) are Reuel and Emily.

Hey friends,

This week at PhB we’re having a CRAZY POWER HOUSE PARTY! We don’t have the Power Plant (surprise!), so we’re having PhB at Jon and Carsie’s house in south Philly. 1304 S. Warnock Street, 19147.8pm-??

Mike the Girl will be teaching another all-levels lesson, this time you’ll be learning a choreography.

AND… THE WHOLE THING ONLY COSTS $3!!!!

Heads up: we do have dogs! Allergic persons beware.

Please pass this info on to your PhBing friends.

Carsie

We have a couple of exciting surprises tonight. Firstly, the Open and Invitational classes will be joining forces in Mike’s ‘Learning from Blues Choreography” class. All are welcome to join in the youtube watching, critiquing, and learning.

Mike and I will then DJ, until MIDNIGHT!!!! As of tonight, the PhB dance will run all the way ’til midnight. : ) Enjoy!

Join us tonight for a feedback class with PhB instructors: a private lesson-esque group lesson, where each dancer will receive individual feedback from instructors. This is meant to be a casual and informative process, so don’t stress! Please bring a notebook and pen. For more info go to http://www.lindyandblues.com/powerhouse/#feedback

Dancing from 9 – 11pm will be DJd by Mike ‘the Girl’ Legett and Dan Repsch.

Come to the open class from 8-9pm tonight with Mike TG: Using tone-matching to lead isolations; OR, silly moves to lead and follow! Followed by DJing from Carsie, and special guest Dave Warner, here from Durham, North Carolina! Dancing from 9-11:15pm.

Note: Last week’s posting indicated there would be a feedback class tonight. Our mistake! It will happen next Monday, June 7th, the first Monday of the month.

Don’t miss Powerhouse Blues tomorrow night! Jesse will teach an all-levels drop-in blues lesson from 8-9:00pm, while Erin teaches an int/adv class on solo blues movement from 7:30 – 9:00. Then stick around and dance as Jesse and Graham DJ from 9 – 11:15.

Don’t forget, we’ll have a feedback class next week, open to anyone who wants direct, constructive feedback on his/her dancing. Also, we have a special guest DJ, Dave Warner!

Come on out to PhB this Monday night for a $5 drop-in blues lesson from 8-9:00pm, open to any and all! Also, the invitational int/adv class will be the third in this month’s series and will run from the usual 7:30 – 9:00. Then stick around to dance to Carsie’s and Dan’s DJ stylings from 9-11:15. See you there!

It’s the first Monday of the month tonight, so PhB is holding a feedback class! Come prepared to receive constructive and direct feedback from PhB instructors. Please bring something to write on and a writing utensil.

Tonight’s DJs are Carsie and Dan, so don’t miss their fabulous tunes from 9:00 – 11:15pm.

See you there!

Come out this Monday night to PhB for a drop-in blues lesson taught by Seth from 8:00-9:00pm, followed by tunes from Mike and Dan till 11:15pm. From 7:30-9:00, Mike the Girl will be teaching the third class in the int/adv series on movement quality. See you there!

Join us tomorrow night for Powerhouse Blues in Olde City! Kerry and Seth will be teaching a drop-in lesson on microblues starting at 8PM (note the time change from the previous 7:30). For the int/adv class (starting at the usual 7:30), Elizabeth will be teaching part 2 in this month’s series on movement quality. 

We have a treat of two new PhB DJs for you this week, Techs Graham and Emily who’ll be playing tunes from 9 – 11:15pm. See you there!

Hey Bluesie Folks,

This Monday at PhB we’ll be holding a feedback class (details below) from 7:30 – 8:30pm, followed by a 30 minute lesson (open to all) taught by our guest instructors this week, Solomon Douglas and Calico Goodrich. Then, as usual, join us for dancing from 9 to 11, to the tunes of Philly’s own Mike and Dan.

The feedback class, which we aim to hold monthly, is a perfect opportunity to improve your dancing. During this particular session, you’ll get the chance to dance with Jon and Solomon (if you’re following) and Carsie and Calico (if you’re leading), and receive personal feedback from each of them after you’ve danced together in the rotation. We encourage students to bring a a writing utensil and something to take notes on. For more information on the structure of these classes visit:

http://www.lindyandblues.com/blog/?p=684

For the remaining weeks in April, we’ll have a drop-in lesson, open to all, from 8 to 9pm and an int/adv 3-week series from 7:30 to 9pm.

PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE FOR THE DROP-IN CLASS, which begins at 8pm, rather than 7:30.

Hope to see you out Monday!

Erin and the PhB Set

Hi Bluesers,

Tonight at PhB, Jon and I will be teaching an open class (appropriate for beginner to advanced students) on “Social Blues”: How to have a comfortable, connected, enjoyable dance with anybody at any level. After the class, prepare to get down to the DJ stylings of Carsie and Dan.

STARTING NEXT WEEK, we’ll be changing the class format at PhB (yet again). We will describe the details at the dance tonight, but if you’re interested, details are below.

We are committed to improving and expanding the blues dance community in Philadelphia, while encouraging students to expand their knowledge and enjoyment of the dance in a friendly, open, enthusiastic environment. We are always working to find more effective ways to achieve this. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about PhB, please don’t hesitate to speak to an organizer directly (Carsie, Jon, Jesse, Erin and Mike the Girl), or email us: powerhouse@lindyandblues.com.

Thanks and best,

Carsie

New format for FEEDBACK CLASSES:

On the first Monday of each month, we will have a Feedback Class. This will be different from the past audition classes in several ways.

1) Rather than taking a class from teachers, this will be one big private lesson. Our teachers will be in the class rotation, and will dance with each student and give one piece of feedback. When we rotate, each student will work on that piece of feedback as they dance with the other students.

2) Rather than receiving written feedback in an email, we will ask each student to take notes on the feedback they receive in the class. After the class, you will be notified via email whether we feel the int/adv classes are appropriate for you.

3) If you have any questions about your level, your feedback, or how to improve, we request that you ask the teachers directly after the class or via email.

New format for WEEKLY CLASSES:

1) Int/Adv classes will be series classes, three or four weeks long (the remainder of each month, following the feedback class), spent on one topic. Classes will be on one topic, but may be taught by multiple teachers. Students will be required to register and pay for a given series in advance.

2) Open classes will be on a new topic each week, and will be appropriate for all levels (we will recommend that int/adv student who are unable to attend all the classes in a series attend open classes instead).