June, 2023
1stBlues Dancing Weekend Summer 2023
Manot, North of IsraelBlues
Workshop
Blues Dancing Weekend Summer 2023
6/1/2023
City: Manot, North of Israel
Dances: Blues
In the north of Israel, we gather in a quite village and stay all together for 3 days of Blues Dancing. The event includes 3 parties, 4 hours of workshops, accommodation, water pool and more activities and surprises.
Teachers: TBD
Bands: DJs
3rdStockholm Blues fest
StockholmBlues
Workshop
Stockholm Blues fest
6/3/2023
City: Stockholm
Dances: Blues
An extra-long weekend of inspiring workshops with international blues teachers, late-night blues parties, and plenty of time for connection on and off the dance floor!
Teachers: TBA
Bands: TBA
23rdAmsterdam Blues Exchange
AmsterdamBlues
Exchange
Amsterdam Blues Exchange
6/23/2023
City: Amsterdam
Dances: Blues
Would you like to share your love for Blues music with fellow dancers and musicians?
Are you ready to move the music or play the dancing? Join us in June for a weekend full of joy and playfulness.
Bands: tba
23rdSeoul Blues Dance Festival 2023
SeoulBlues
Workshop
Seoul Blues Dance Festival 2023
6/23/2023
City: Seoul
Dances: Blues
Update soon
23rdThe Blues Spot
StrasbourgBlues
Workshop
The Blues Spot
6/23/2023
City: Strasbourg
Dances: Blues
• classes for Blues Partner Dance
• classes for Blues Solo Dance
• 3 Blues party nights, with live bands!
A delicious program is in preparation, with awesome teachers, fantastic musicians, and a remarkable smooth atmosphere !
Teachers: Vicci & Adamo
Lisa & Fabien
Alba & Gas
Bands: The Sky Is Crying
The Rhythm Outlines
July, 2023
8thBlues Workshop Weekend with the Wilkersons
Boulder, COBlues
Workshop
Blues Workshop Weekend with the Wilkersons
7/8/2023
City: Boulder, CO
Dances: Blues
We are delighted to present a weekend of dancing to the Blues with Krystal and Adam Wilkerson. We'll have two days of workshops, a social dance, and the All Ballroomin' social competition!
Find Full Event Info and Registration Here:
https://buytickets.at/thetriplestep/922656
FB Event: https://fb.me/e/1127sru91
*The workshops are designed to be ideal for folks who have some social dance background, whether that's in Blues, Lindy, WCS, Salsa, Zouk, Fusion, etc.
Schedule
Saturday, July 8th
Saturday Workshop 1-5pm
Saturday Social Dance from 7pm-1am (includes beginner lesson from 7pm-8pm)
All Ballroomin' competition Saturday 9pm
Sunday, July 9th
Sunday Workshop 130pm-430pm
Teachers: Krystal Wilkerson, Adam Wilkerson
27thThe Spoonful
EdinburghBlues
Workshop
The Spoonful
7/27/2023
City: Edinburgh
Dances: Blues
The Spoonful is all about blues music, excellent classes from the most fun and talented teachers, competitions so welcoming that everybody can take part, and bringing the blues community together for one helluva party in our home of Scotland.
August, 2023
3rdCincyHop
CincinnatiBlues, Lindy, Balboa
Exchange
CincyHop
8/3/2023
City: Cincinnati
Dances: Blues, Lindy, Balboa
CincyHop is Cincinnati's annual exchange event. Featuring 4 live bands and 2 nights of Chelsea Reed and the Fairweather 7.
Bands: Chelsea Reed
11thOlyDance Summer Gathering 2023
OlympiaBlues, Fusion, Other
Workshop
OlyDance Summer Gathering 2023
8/11/2023
City: Olympia
Dances: Blues, Fusion, Other
We are back with another weekend of fun and creativity featuring many hours of social dancing, live music, workshops and of course human connection.
For this year's Summer Gathering, we are bringing back some of our favorite experiences like our celebrated Fountain Dance, live jazz, and blues at the Medicine Creek Winery.
And an Epic Fusion Dance Party Saturday.
We are also bringing on board some new elements: Friday we have a street party planned with live music! and this year we have an amazing collaboration with Olympia's own Clown Town!
Workshops:
Fusion - Zouk - Cumbia - Dimestop & Robot - Circus Arts
Juggling and More TBA!
Bands: Live Blues, Fusion, and Cumbia
25thBlues Fuse Festival
UtrechtBlues, Fusion
Workshop
Blues Fuse Festival
8/25/2023
City: Utrecht
Dances: Blues, Fusion
Inspired by the great cocoablues festival in Barcelona, this festival also combines the styles of blues and fusion in 1 festival. We offer 3 nights of parties with both blues and fusion live music and those ordering a full pas get 6 hours of classes. All classes are in the afternoon. We care about our ecological footprint so we encourage everybody to come to our festival by train if that is possible. Pre-registration is already OPEN!
Teachers: Couple blues: Elise Klein and Rija "Ridz" Rakotondrainibe (France)
Solo blues: Alexandra Karsenty (France)
Fusion: to be announced soon
Bands: Vantastik
BluesShack
Velvet Cruise
The Touchstone Collective
September, 2023
1stKorea Blues Camp 2023
SeoulBlues
Workshop
Korea Blues Camp 2023
9/1/2023
City: Seoul
Dances: Blues
Welcome to Korea Blues Camp 2023. Since 2010, we tried to spread not just blues dance but its culture in Asia. We hope that we can give you more passion & inspiration of blues this year. Thanks for Joining us at Korea Blues Camp 2023.
More info will be updated soon!
8thBlues & Fusion Room at Trilogy Swing
Raleigh, NCBlues, Fusion, West Coast
Workshop
Blues & Fusion Room at Trilogy Swing
9/8/2023
City: Raleigh, NC
Dances: Blues, Fusion, West Coast
Hosted in a spacious 3,000 sq ft ballroom, we will have 2 days of workshops and socials! Lessons will feature a variety of topics including Traditional Blues and Fusion concepts. See event for additional updates and future details!
Teachers: TBD
Bands: None, DJ’smd music
22ndBelta Blues - Autumn 2023 Edition
Newcastle-upon-TyneBlues, Fusion
Workshop
Belta Blues - Autumn 2023 Edition
9/22/2023
City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Dances: Blues, Fusion
Join us for a weekend of blues and fusion dancing.
Teachers: Tristan Brightman
Ryan O'Shaughnessy and Anna Price
Alain Andrieux and Zoe Enstone
Bands: Stef Rosen (www.slidinwolf.com), Beat Root Jam
22ndMI Fusion Connection
Ann Arbor, MIBlues, Fusion, Tango, West Coast, Other
Workshop
October, 2023
13thBlues Muse
PhiladelphiaBlues
Workshop
Blues Muse
10/13/2023
City: Philadelphia
Dances: Blues
Blues Muse is an event that is dedicated to partnership above all else. From our early years championing follower voice and creativity, we have grown to become the event to be at to hone your partnership skills, flex your creativity, and engage in deep learning about the techniques and theories around connection.
Teachers: TBD
Bands: TBD
November, 2023
17thPittStop Lindy Hop
Pittsburgh, PABlues, Lindy
Exchange
PittStop Lindy Hop
11/17/2023
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Dances: Blues, Lindy
Gordon Webster is coming back to PittStop! Plus Chelsea Reed and Fair Weather Five with grace us with both swing and blues sets! Plus, we have [local] legend Paul Cosentino and the Boilermaker Jazz Band continue his streak of playing at every single PittStop!
Lindy Hop afternoons and evenings, with Blues late nights (we are on the hunt for a laten night venue with 2 spaces, so our fingers are crossed that we will have lindy hop all night, too!
Bands: Chelsea Reed and the Fair Weather Five, Gordon Webster, Paul Cosentino and the Boilermaker Jazz Band
23rdDance Blender
Horn, NÖ (close to Vienna)Blues, Fusion, Tango, Other
Workshop
Dance Blender
11/23/2023
City: Horn, NÖ (close to Vienna), Austria
Dances: Blues, Fusion, Tango, Other
✨ Vision
We envision a space where social partner dancers come together as social partner dancers first and then dancers of a style, to recognize that there is one language of social partner dancing and we chose whether or not to dance dialects of that language.
📍 Quick overview
- 3 party nights on 2 dance floors + a pre-party and after-party on November 23rd and 27th respectively, after-party in Vienna
- 4 days of workshops of international teachers of different dance style backgrounds
- music of different genres
*More info on Facebook and Website*
Teachers:
🔹 Instructors
We are honored to be bringing together instructors from all different types of social partner dancing styles that align with our vision.
All of our amazing instructors have some sort of fusion/freestyle aspect to their dancing and will only teach technique, musicality, or connection-oriented classes at Dance Blender, no pattern/choreo based classes will happen.
These awesome instructors are:
🔹Gui Prada, for zouk also with tango, and Brazilian ballroom backgrounds (https://www.youtube.com/@guilhermeprada )
🔹 Alain and Flouer, for blues also with tango, zouk, and fusion backgrounds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmmDZ9ovZjw )
🔹 Arnaldes and Bri, for bachata also with kizomba, and zouk backgrounds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQdLCjnHGfg )
🔹Jenni Schmitz with a bellydancing, zouk, many partner/solo dances, improvisation, conscious dance/mindful movement, Transnational fusion background, and somatic/dance therapy background
(partner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yevputGFgbE , Solo: https://youtu.be/uvkbXaCwWIk )
🔹Dotty for Salsa and Contact Improv also with a zouk background and the founder of ConSla (Salsa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_XwsMM_rU , Zouk Contemporary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4AEcoQJ-c )
🔹Yera and Leonilde, for Contemporary and contact Improv also with sala, and hip hop backgrounds (https://www.instagram.com/yerandleonilde/ )
🔹Jessica and Christopher, for fusion also with urban-kizz, zouk and tango backgrounds (https://www.facebook.com/DanceTheoryWorld/videos/164188343080159/ )
🔹Jesica Cutler, also with blues and zouk backgrounds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmcQUkac4zo )
🔹 With more to come!
*More info on Facebook and Website*
Bands:
🎵 Music
We have looked far and wide for the perfect DJs and musicians to be part of Dance Blender. All of them are versatile in what they play and are ready to have the music dance your socks off, for over 20 hours of parties across two rooms!
We will be having two rooms during the main party with changing themes every hour throughout the night. These themes are dance style agnostic and the majority of the music played will not be of a particular dance style, more details to come.
*More info on Facebook and Website*
March, 2024
15thCruisin for a Bluesin - Los Angeles
Long Beach, CABlues, Fusion
Exchange
Cruisin for a Bluesin - Los Angeles
3/15/2024
City: Long Beach, CA
Dances: Blues, Fusion
LONG BEACH ~ ENSENADA
CARNIVAL RADIANCE
All Inclusive
All the Food You Can Eat!
Group Rates and Cocktail Party!
Room and Board
Gaming, Crafts and Dancing in the Afternoons
Meet and Greet Session
DJ's Galore!
Formal Evening Dinner Night!
Cruise Entertainment
Casinos
Port Fees & Taxes
Fuel Charge
Documentation Fees
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House Party
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