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

It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month! It’s the start of a new school year, it’s the start of a beautiful fall, and it’s time to get dancing!

8PM–
Upstairs: Carsie & Jon will be teaching an all-levels blues class.
Downstairs: There will be a novice lindy drop-in lesson with Dan Repsch.
9PM–
Upstairs: Carsie & Jon will lead the last of this month’s lindy mini-class and practice session.
Downstairs: Dance to the sweet tunes of LaB’s house DJs.

See you out dancing!

Oh thank goodness we’ve got some cooler weather!

8PM–
Upstairs: Erin & Jon will be continuing the intermediate blues series.
Downstairs: Kerry will teach the novice drop-in Lindy class.

9PM–
Upstairs: Practice session/class with Jon & Erin in Lindy.
Downstairs: Dance until midnight to the DJ stylings of Dan Repsch and Jesse Young!

Come heat things up again! See you out dancing!

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

I’ll keep this short n’ sweet.

8PM–
Upstairs: Continuation of the intermediate blues series with Carsie & Jon.
Downstairs: Novice blues drop-in lesson with Dan Repsch.

9PM–
Upstairs: Class/practicum with Jon & Carsie in Lindy!
Downstairs: Dance until midnight to the DJing of Stuart Collins & Dan Repsch!

See you out dancing!

We’re continuing with our new format this week.

8PM–
Upstairs: Beginner/Intermediate blues series with Erin & Jon.
Downstairs: Novice lindy class with Cheryl.

9PM–
Upstairs: Open class/practice session with Erin & Jon (focused on Lindy).
Downstairs: Dance until midnight to the tunes of Ms. Emily Fleck. She’s taking the whole night to DJ her final goodbye to the scene. Come on out and send her off in style!

See you out dancing!

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!

Whew! The heat wave has gone on a brief hiatus. That means you need to come on out and dance!

8PM–
Upstairs Dan Repsch & Jenny Sowden will be teaching a class on Circular vs Linear Momentum:
Most moves/phrases have circular or linear momentum. We will discover the difference between the two and take three separate examples and create a circular version and a linear version of the same move/phrase. Promoting linear to be inspired by circular and vise versa.
Downstairs: Novice Lindy hop with Erin & Jon. They’ll be teaching 6-count outside patterns!

9PM–
Upstairs: Practice Space!
Downstairs: Dance until midnight to the sweet tunes of Emily Fleck!

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!

whew! While we all might still be recovering from Hot Mess (boy was it amazing!), I know you all still want to swing out like feinds. Join us!

8PM–
Upstairs: Reuel is still here! He’ll be teaching a recap course on Hot Mess that will cover how to do fast lindy and his now famous Jam class!
Downstairs: Carsie will teach the Novice drop-in lesson in Lindy.

9PM–
Upstairs: practice space!
Downstairs: Dance to the sweet tune of Reuel and company!

See you out dancing!
Jesse

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!

This is the 5th week in the month, so it’s wildcard night!

8PM–
Upstairs: Seth is teaching his final week of fancy footwork. This class will be the culmination of his mini-series, so if you’ve missed out on previous weeks, sorry. If you’ve been to the previous classes, come one down for a great time!
Downstairs: Drop-in Novice Lindy class with Erin & Jon! They’ll be going over 6 count moves.

9PM–
Upstairs: Free dancing!
Downstairs: dance until midnight to DJ Emily Fleck & Dan Repsch. Emily’s leaving our scene soon, so soak up as much as she’s got to offer while she’s still here!

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.

It’s hot. It’s humid. We have air conditioners! We’ll be pumping the air full blast tonight to try to keep you guys dry.

8PM–
Upstairs: Week 2 of Seth’s Fancy Footwork classes for intermediate lindy hop. Missed last week? Don’t miss out this week!
Downstairs: Novice Lindy Drop-in class with Jon Darvill & Caroline Gleeson.

9PM–
Upstairs: Week 4 of the novice blues series with Mike.
Downstairs: Dance until midnight to the sweet tunes of Emily Fleck.

Bring an extra shirt tonight!

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

Come dancing!

8PM–
Upstairs: Seth’s Fancy Footwork mini-series. Beginner and Intermediate Lindy. Pay as you go, even though this is a three week series.
Downstairs: Drop-in novice Lindy class with Carsie!

9PM–
Upstairs: week 3 of Mike’s Novice Blues Series!
Downstairs: Dance until midnight with Carsie and then Stuart DJing.

I’m missing out on this week like the loser that I am, but don’t let that keep you from coming out

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!