A Weekend of
Tango Spiced Fusion
3 Incredible Instructors
10 Workshops
Class descriptions and instructor biographies are below the schedule.
City In Motion is your chance to try new things, to find something you want more of, and especially find new inspiration in the familiar.
SATURDAY
July 8, 2023
10:00a-11:00a
Hangout and take your rapid test
If you haven’t checked in
11:00a-12:25p
Tango Roadmap for Fusion Dancers
with Emily, Jamie-Lynn, & Jeannie
12:40p-2:05p
Snakes & Circles
with Jamie-Lynn & Jeannie
3:05p-4:30p
Playing Footsie
with Emily & Jamie-Lynn
4:45p-6:10p
Micro Feet & Musical Magic
with Emily & Jeannie
SUNDAY
July 9, 2023
12:00p-1:00p
Hangout and take your rapid test
If you haven’t checked in
1:00p-2:25p
The Power of Centeredness
with Jamie-Lynn & Jeannie
Head to Toe Dancer Body
with Emily
2:45p-4:10p
The Leg Connection: Moving as a 4-legged animal
Jamie-Lynn & Emily
Tango-y Fusion Embellishments (for leads and follows)
with Jeannie
4:30p-5:55p
Counter Balance & Rotational Power
with Emily & Jeannie
Creating & Releasing Extension:
Range of Motion Restorative & Stretch
with Jamie-Lynn
Emily Webb (she/her)
In 1996 Emily Webb began her love affair with partner dance. Through the years Emily has studied Tango, Swing, Salsa, Blues, and Fusion dance with some of the top instructors in the world. Today Tango and Fusion remain Emily's greatest dance loves.
Thousands of students across the US and Canada have benefited from Emily's dynamic and interactive teaching style. Through her years of teaching experience Emily has learned to make even the most complex movements simple and build them from the ground up. This means you will not only look good while you dance, but feel great to your partners too!
Jamie-Lynn Figure (she/her)
first experienced partner dance in 1994 in the form of ice dancing. While progressing through competitive circles, she cross-trained with ballet, jazz, modern, and cardio dance classes. In 2005 she put on her first pair of ballroom shoes; in 2006 she fell in love with swing and blues. Addicted to new dancing experiences, she added Argentine tango to her repertoire in 2007. Basically, she loves to dance any way she can. Students of her weekly blues, swing, and connection lessons feel that their creativity, expressivity, and knowledge of fundamental concepts are challenged and expanded during each of her lessons. She's happy to have been a part of The Las Vegas Fusion Exchange and The Denver Fusion Exchange.
Jeannie Lin (she/her)
is a masterful shapeshifter dancer who is able to effortlessly adapt, blend, articulate and draw from a myriad of different dance forms and experiences. Her early training comprised of gymnastics, ballet, and modern dance, while her later years included formal study in over 30 styles of partner dance at the Ballroom Dance Teacher's Academy where she graduated with high honors. Her evenings were spent teaching professionally at a ballroom dance studio, while her late-night adventures included clubs and bars all over the city dancing salsa, bachata, west coast swing, blues, argentine tango, and more.
Now she happily resides in the worlds of fusion and argentine tango, where she weaves in her other dance styles together seamlessly, integrating concepts and creating hybrid movements with grace and fluidity. Recognized for her nuanced and effective teaching style, she's been invited to teach internationally at fusion festivals and workshops, including in Spain, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, and Canada.
Tango Roadmap for Fusion Dancers
Emily, Jamie-Lynn, & Jeannie
Come learn the foundations of tango technique and structure to start traveling on the dance floor with tango flare. We'll decode parallel system, cross system, moving inside and outside partner, and how to leverage these systems and positions to enhance the navigation and flow of your Fusion dancing.
Snakes & Circles
Emily, Jamie-Lynn, & Jeannie
This class will cover curves and circular pathways: creating intuitive flow while maintaining balance and power through the spiraling dynamics of the body. Followers will learn how to move in smooth, snake-like pivots around their partner, while leads will learn to guide the follower’s momentum in a way that unlocks endless creative potential. These rotational dynamics are the backbone of tango figures, and easily adaptable to open doors to fusion possibilities!
Playing footsie
Emily, Jamie-Lynn, & Jeannie
Touching toes is the first step to creating the shared leg space interactions that make tango so mesmerizing. Get ready for snuggly sole connection! Here, we'll discuss building an awareness of your partner's foot placement, making contact intentionally, and safely sweeping your partner off their feet (one at a time).
Micro Feet & Musical Magic
Emily, Jamie-Lynn, & Jeannie
In this class we will start with perceiving your partners from head to toe until they become an extension of your own body. With this connection, we can begin to explore the subtleties of shifting weight with your partner which will open a whole new world of magical micro footwork! Through tango-influenced steps like box step varations, staggered steps, hits and pauses, we will be able to break out of standard rhythms and be able to express the true potential of what the song is offering through your feet with your partner. Magically, even the simplest of moves will feel special and your musicality will leave your partners craving more!
Head to Toe Dancer Body
With Emily
Moving with grace and ease; Balance without effort; Creating soft yet sensitive connection with your partner --- It all starts with our feet and goes up from there. In this class we are going to look at body alignment and embrace literally from toe to head. You will build your base, realign your posture, and create an embrace to write home about. It’s time to let go of tension and open up more joy and freedom in your dancing body!
The Power of Centeredness
Jamie-Lynn, & Jeannie
Axis, axis, axis, it's difficult to take a tango class without hearing the term. We each have one, and we share one. In this class, we'll explore the extreme of what maintaining an independent axis can morph into and how your partner can interact with it. Get ready for a new twist on turns!
The Leg Connection:
Moving as a 4-legged animal
Jamie-Lynn + Emily
Tango is all about leg creativity and flow, but good looking legs aren't the real gold. You'll find the end of the rainbow through the lead / follow connection and body mechanics that make Tango leg movements look so effortless. In this workshop, we will refine your leg movement and create a direct relationship between the leader's and follower’s legs so that your partnership is as fluid as a 4-legged animal. Get ready to swing and wrap your legs into Tango moves that can work magic on the Fusion floor.
Counter Balance & Rotational Power
Emily & Jeannie
Dance moves that require counterbalance are so much fun... unless someone gets hurt. Whether you lead or follow there is an art to sharing weight and counterbalancing your partner. This class will focus on the skills of Tango counter balance technique that will make all your counterbalance moves safe and stable (which equals FUN). If you have never done counterbalanced moves before, this will be a great foundation that will set you up for a lifetime of solid counterbalance bliss. If you already play with counterbalance get ready to up your level with hang time and rotational power!
Tango-y Fusion Embellishments (for leads and follows)
With Jeannie
In this class, we’ll be borrowing from the large library of beautiful and intricate tango footwork and learning how to style them into our fusion dancing. We’ll warm up with decorative elements from tango such as beats, tucks, rulos, and other fun adornments that will easily liven up your dancing (and musicality!). Additionally, we’ll learn to create a dynamic wrapping effect in our turns by opening the lines of the legs and spine in order to create those elegant shapes and spirals. With style and finesse, let's light up your fusion dancing with some tango fire!
Creating & Releasing Extension: Range of Motion Restorative & Stretch
With JAMIE-LYNN
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