BDTB Presents: Jazz Up Your Blues! with Lyla Ruth

Blues Day Tampa Bay is back with another dance on October 6th! We will be at the Guilfoil Dance Arts Center with more lessons, more dancing, and even more fun. Lyla Ruth will be joining us as a guest instructor to teach "Jazz Up Your Blues!", a special workshop on how to incorporate solo jazz movements into solo blues dancing! Developing solo skills is one of the best ways to elevate your dancing. It improves timing, musicality, technique, styling, and can also be incorporated into partnered blues. Many moves found in solo blues are classic jazz steps done to blues music (apple jacks, sweeps, camel walks, hallelujahs, box steps, etc.). Lyla will discuss the history and the foundations of solo jazz, teach us a few moves, and show us how to apply them to solo blues dancing. Lyla is an accomplished dance teacher, performer, producer, and choreographer. Throughout her career, she has received many recognitions including Best Dancer in the Best of the Bay contest, Best Experimental Film award for her dance short "MEMORIAM", and a scholarship for Swing Diversity University. Most recently, Lyla won Best Choreographer in the Best of the Bay contest. You can read her full bio here: https://shorturl.at/fqFJU The Jazz Up Your Blues workshop will be from 7-8 pm, and the social will be from 8-11 pm. Attendance is $10 (cash or Venmo) and covers both the workshop and the social. As always, see you on the dance floor! Please note that the venue does not have a water fountain, so bring extra water with you. We will provide bottled water, but we also want to limit plastic waste as much as possible. There will be plenty of free parking, though!