March 5-8, 2009

Experience his unique, innovative and enjoyable instruction style

Remember to sign up for the workshop in advance.  Instead of paying the full Weekend Workshop price of $160 you can still get discounts for the Saturday and Sunday sessions...10 hours of incomparable dance plus the Saturday night party!

$40 discount for the next 10 leads & 10 follows that register before February 20th

$20 discount for students (combinable with $40 discount above)

Special pricing for off-island dancers: you pay only $80 (and please let Andie know if you would like  the Hep Cats to try find housing for you for the weekend)

Half-day and full-day sessions will be sold after Feb 27th, if space is still available.

Thursday and Friday sessions are individually priced (see below.)

Class descriptions below.

Andrew believes that to become a great Lindy Hopper it is first important to become a great social dancer.  His workshops help all levels of dancers become better social dancers, including, but not limiting them to improving their Lindy Hop.  Andrew will be showing techniques that will improve everything from your Lindy Hop to your Blues & Balboa, or even your Salsa & Tango.  No matter what your level, Andrew guarantees that you will get an overload of information to improve your dancing.  By guarantee, he means it... 

Weekend Workshop Pricing = $160 (discounts available, see above)

If you want to know more about him, check out his website www.SmoothSavoy.com, where you can watch videos of crazy routines like Dogpile, read several articles about improving your dancing, and get a general idea of his dancing and personality.  Join his mailing list, and he sends you monthly newsletters with ideas on how to improve your dancing, favorite songs, etc... and you might even win a dance trip.  

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  The Beauty of Doing Nothing 

7:30 p.m. - 9:00/9:30 p.m.  Dr. Drew's LindyLine 

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  Registration & videos

10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Connection, Counterbalance, and Beyond

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. lunch break

2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Aerial Fundamentals, Leg Leads & Natural Leg Momentum

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.  Dance Party with Andrew as guest DJ!  Expect fun activities, games and awsome music!  [Hep  Cats will have a back-up DJ to fill in as needed.]

10:15 a.m.  Registration

10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Charleston Games and Dancing like Superman

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.  lunch break

2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  That Extra Something Special and Making Your Night Out Dancing Amazing

Costs:  

Thursday 3/5:  $20.

Discount prices: $10 for dancers who have not taken a class from Andrew before; $15 for students and Full Workshop registrants.

Friday 3/6: $30 

Early Bird Discount price:  $20 if paid before Feb. 20

Add $5 if you want at least 5 minutes personally working with Andrew (limited to 5 leads and 5 follows.)  Class is limited to 20 people.  Full workshop registrants get priority; other dancers can sign up after Feb. 20 if space is available.

Full weekend (3/7 and 3/8) workshop with party pass:  $160

Pre-registration Discount price:  $120 for 10 leads/10 follows if paid by February 20

Student Discount price: $100 if paid by February 20

Off-island Discount price:  $80 limited to 2 leads/2 follows

Options for one-day or half-day sessions will be offered if space is available after Feb. 27.

Payments can be in cash or in checks made to “Andrea Gill.” 

Checks can be mailed to 95 Hoaloha Street, Hilo, HI  96720

To arrange payment in person, call Andie at 959-8216 or 315-5475.

Here are the class descriptions:

The Beauty of Doing Nothing 

Most of us move more often than we need or mean to.  This class is designed to show you how doing less movement in your dancing will allow for so much more to happen!

Have you ever taken a private lesson and learned a lot from it?  Or even just watched a private lesson, worked on the things you saw them talking about, and learned a lot from it?  Did you learn details about your dancing in one hour that took months to learn in group classes?  This class gives you the chance to experience some of the details that you can learn from either watching or taking a private lesson and applying it to your dancing.

Andrew will be dancing with and giving detailed intermediate to advanced level comments to one lead & one follow while you watch.  Then he will take a short break to give you a chance to ask questions & apply these details to your own dancing.  Repeat this 6 more times and finish off with an Aha discussion, to overload you with details that make a difference.

The details of the dance are what improves most higher level dancers.  These details can be hard to understand unless they are broken down in to specific layers and you get to see the difference one layer can make in someone's dancing.  In this class, you will get to see the difference that subtle layers can make and you will immediately get to work on how to implement them into your dancing. 

Beginners will get to put intermediate & advanced details into their dancing.  Intermediate & Advanced dancers will get to learn subtle details that make a difference.  Teachers will learn more things that can make a difference in someone's dancing in less than 10 minutes.

This class will work on the details behind the details.  What types of connections are essential but usually unseen?  Which fundamental connections are important to make counterbalanced movement easy?  How can you dance with someone who seems to have different fundamentals than you?  How can I be more aware of how my balace affects my partner?  By the end of this class, questions like these will be easy for you to answer and start to integrate into your dancing.

This class breaks down the vertical connection techniques of aerials so precisely that once learned, your vertical connection both in aerials and in regular dancing will never skip a beat.  And don't worry, there are no dangerous moves in this class. No dance experience necessary.

This is a class on the fundamentals of leg leading, leg following and leg motions.  Andrew uses these leg lead concepts to show many different fun & unexpected movements as well as teach how to be more natural in your leg momentum.

Charleston Games 

This high energy, fun, community-building class will show you over 40 Charleston moves, give you lots of styling tips, plus show you 3 games you can play to add more variety to your dance nights.

When Superman is flying 300 miles an hour it looks fast to others but it doesn't feel that fast to him and it doesn't need to feel that fast for us dancing either.  Still, before learning to move or be moved by a partner at speeds above 200bpm, it is important to learn how to move yourself above these speeds.  In this class you will learn how to solo dance and make it feel like you are going at a jogging speed (175-200bpm) when you are really flying by at 250 - 300bpm.

You know when you watch someone who has been dancing for a long time and they just seem to have something special that makes them seem to move more gracefully then newer dancers.  This class will get you moving more fluidly by discussing detailed techniques on continuous momentum and giving you some challenging drills that you can do to dramatically increase your ability to move with grace, balance, and precision when executing your movements.

Making Your Night Out Dancing Amazing 

Sometimes you go out dancing and the energy in the room is amazing!  Other nights at the same venue, with the same people, and the same music, sometimes it is just NOT amazing at all.  This class will teach you the things that can make your night (and many other people's nights) change from not so great to "Remember the time when we..., Wow, that was one heck of a night!"