Contra Connections: An Intermediate Contra Workshop
By Alyssa Adkins and Brooklyn Contra
Been loving contra as a new dancer but want to take your dancing to the next level? Been dancing for years but want a stronger foundation? Want time to learn or practice some flourishes outside of a dance?
Join Brooklyn Contra and Alyssa Adkins at our first Intermediate Contra workshop! We’ll look at less common, intermediate contra moves and break them down, learn flourishes and fun places to put them, and go over techniques to make partnered dancing feel smooth, attentive, and effortlessly connected.
All skills will be taught in context, with time to practice on your own, with a partner, and in full dances selected to bring it all together – all with live music!
Stick around after the workshop for a full dance with Alyssa’s calling and music from Good Company and bring what you learned to the floor!
Tickets $25 Available Here And At the Door!
About Alyssa Adkins:
When you ask a Muppet to masquerade as a human and call a contra dance, you get Alyssa. Dancers consistently describe their teaching and calling as clear, joyful, and energetic. An experienced contra dancer, yoga instructor and fusion dance teacher and organizer, she stays precise and concise in her communication so everyone can more fully enjoy the dance, the music, and each other.
About Brooklyn Contra’s Intermediate Contra Workshop(s):
Brooklyn Contra’s Intermediate Contra Workshops are designed to be an engaging series of workshops that allow dancers to advance their contra skills. These learning experiences are intended to augment the traditional “folk approach” to teaching contra in order to allow dancers to establish a strong base of contra skills in a non-dance environment. It’s our hope that these workshops, with the curriculum publicly available, will help the folk approach to teaching take root in dance communities that are smaller and less resourced, or have lost substantial skills during the pandemic, and will document and spread authentically contra flourishes, moves and practices. In the future we hope to add at least two more workshops as well as online content to sit beside this first workshop, and will make the curriculum available online under a creative commons license (and Alyssa will be happy to come to you and teach it too!).