Partner Connection for Zouk Dancers - With Peter Sweet

Transforming Your Dance with Breath Instructor: Peter Sweet The simple act of breathing fully while you dance is a powerfully effective way to bring lightness, spontaneity and fun to your experience on the dance floor. Using tools from the Alexander Technique and Wutao breath-work, we will increase your sensitivity to the flow and movement of your own breathing. This awareness will help you to feel your partner more clearly, and dramatically increase your ability to both follow and lead. Your breath is a tremendous asset to you. For Brazilian Zouk dancers this is particularly important to realize because the movement of the spine that is at the core of this dance is directly related to the way you breathe. Learning to use the breath throughout your dance will allow your flow of movement and expression to expand and become more fine. With a bit of attention you can learn to use your breath to bring new clarity, dynamics and enjoyment into your dancing, while at the same time increasing your connection to your partner and the music. LEVEL Workshops are open level. SCHEDULE There's 8 hours of classes in total. On Saturday, classes are 13-15 and 16-18, with one hour break in the middle. On Sunday, classes are 11-13 and 14-16, with one hour break in the middle. PRICES Register in advance by Sunday 22.4 for cheaper prices. To register, message or email Jukka Välimaa ([email protected]). Register with a partner: 70€ per person (we will be changing partners) Register without partner: 80€ Turn up without registration: 90€ If you can come only one day, the price is half the full price. All payments are made in cash at the workshop location. ABOUT THE TEACHER: Peter Sweet (San Francisco/Berlin) first learned to dance by jumping from rock to rock in the river as a young boy. Since then he has had many years of professional training, but has always held on to this playful, spontaneous approach to movement in his dancing and teaching. Sweet is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and has been fascinated with the beauty and subtlety of partner work since he began studying tai chi push hands in 1999. As a drummer and a life long lover of jazz, blues and latin music it was inevitable that he would end up dancing his way around the world. Sweet has spent more than 9 years in full time movement training as part of his work as a professional circus, dance and theater performer. Along with his 3 year education in Alexander Technique, he attended dance conservatory at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), studied movement based theater at the Helikos School for theater creation and is an instructor of the Wutao Breath and movement system. Peter has taught his own signature workshops, combining Alexander Technique with dance, Wutao and physical theater, at the DOCH University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm Sweden, the musical theater department of the Bayern Theater Academy in Munich Germany, the Jazz Factory in Helsinki, Finland and many many more.