Have a fantastic Lindy Hop Weekend with Sonia and Hector in Dresden. We aim on helping you to develop and train your feel in solo & couple dancing for medium & fast swing music. We offer perfect learning conditions:: max. of 15 couples in each class, inside of a great dance studio, we also plan on some social activities. Get inspired, and enjoy the time dancing with us ♪♫
Friday
11:00 … 18:00 Uhr :: Walk & little climbing in Saxon Switzerland mountains
19:00 … 22:00 Uhr :: RiverBoat you can have dinner on Paddlesteamer (Dresden-Pillnitz-Dresden) .. with live swing music & some dancing. We have pre-ordered tickets. let us know if you are interested so we can add more people to the reservation.
22:30 … 01:00 Uhr :: Social Dance & Check-In (free)
River Boat Tour with live music and castle tour (extra .. check factsheet.pdf)
Saturday
10:30 … 11:00 Uhr :: Check-In
11:00 … 12:00 Uhr :: Class 1
12:15 … 13:15 Uhr :: Class 2
— break —
14:45… 15:45 Uhr :: Class 3
16:00 … 17:00 Uhr :: Class 4
21:00 … Stompin‘ at the Savoy .. Double.O (5 EUR, free for participants)
Sunday
11:00 … 12:00 Uhr :: Class 5
12:15 … 13:15 Uhr :: Class 6
— break —
14:45… 15:45 Uhr :: Class 7
16:00 … 17:00 Uhr :: Class 8
17:00 … social dance :: tea dance (free … bring cake, snacks, or grill)
Please load the factsheet.pdf. It might be updated … so freshly reload it on Thursday.
Early Bird Fullpass:: 165 € / person until June 30th (incl. workshop + savoy socials)
Late Bird Fullpass:: 180 € / person from Juli 1st (incl. workshop + savoy socials)
Friday Social:: free … if riverboat castle tour with Dixie swing, separate for 27.80 EUR
Saturday Social:: 5 € … free for participants
Sunday Social:: free … tea dance
prices incl. 19% VAT
Savoy Club / Zentralwerk (Friday Night, Saturday & Sunday)
Riesaer Str. 32 (Innenhof, Souterrain)Saxon Switzerland, Bad Schandau (Friday day-trip .. all info about that in the handout)
Sächsische Dampfschifffahrt, Dresdner Terrassenufer Ableger der „Pillnitz“ (Friday dinner-dance trip .. more in the handout)
To avoid ending up bankrupt, we aligned the following rules…
Jam Circle reserves the right to cancel the workshop, if need be. In case of a cancellation you will receive a full refund of your purchased tickets. The Jam Circle team cannot held liable for lost property or injuries incurred at the workshop or related to a registration.
+++ You can always find a replacement taking your spot, according to your role (Lead/Follow). You may submit changes until April 20th 2017, 10:00 am. We won’t accept any changes beyond this date.
+++ If you cancel your booking for any reason before June 1st 2019 there is a 20 % cancellation fee.
+++ If you cancel your booking for any reason between June 1st 2019 and June 30th 2019, there is a 50 % cancellation fee.
+++ For cancellations after June 30th 2019, no refunds can be granted.
All registrations are binding, oblige acceptance and payment within 14 days after receiving payment instructions. The German Distance Selling Act bears a two week revocation period, but according to § 312g Paragraph 2 Nr. 9 BGB it is not applicable for ticket sales or camp bookings. Despite this German Distance Selling Act we allow you to transfer your camp registration and party tickets to another person without any fees until June 20th. We also offer the cancellation of your order. The above mentioned cancellation fees apply according to the date of your cancellation.
With your registration you accept these terms and policies.
Each registration is binding and obliges payment as soon we accepted the registration. If you receive payment instructions we accepted your registration. Contact us if you did not receive any instructions. You absolve Jam Circle team, their agents, the instructors, the venues and the staff of any and all responsibility for injuries and future injuries you might suffer or cause in result of my participation at Jam Circle workshops, dances, it’s surrounding areas and parking lots. You grant to Jam Circle the unrestricted rights to take motion and still pictures of you. To use and distribute these pictures and recordings, in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, devised, or discovered, in perpetuity, throughout the world, including without limitation in advertisements, publicity, marketing and merchandising.
Registrants please provide your valid email address, no old email please. Understand that in order of your participation we want to be able to contact you.
Best places to check for hostels or accommodation are Dresden-Neustadt, or nearby the center.
We also recommend to search with AirBnB or Couchsurfing. Alternatively you should try to check “Jugendherbergen, Ferienwohnungen, Pension or Hostels.
Names of Hostels: Lollies Homestay, Mondpalast, Louise, Mescalero, Kangaroo Stop, LaLeLu, etc. …
Please check on your own: uebernachtung-in-dresden-
We had a good experience with researching at hostelworld.com.
For hosting requests please note, that we cannot promise to organize your hosting. We will do our best, but it has worked out great so far to start looking at the following platforms yourself:
Though from our own experience it is not easy finding a host, if you have no private connection to the dance community. Once you got to know the dancers in person it is much easier. Still you should try, or search for couch surfing and airbnb.
Sonia has been dancing different styles of dance since the age of 5, but Lindy Hop is the one that has captured her heart. She has been teaching regular classes in Barcelona, Spain since 2000, and over Europe for the last 5 years. Being part of the Barswingona Dance Company and with a classical and jazz background, she is well known in her city as a fantastic social dancer and a dedicated traveling international instructor. As a teacher, she is known to be approachable, patient, and willing to dance with her students.
Recently, she has received some awards from well known competitions: third place in the ILHC 2014 Open Classic division with Héctor Artal, third place in ILHC 2014 Stricly Lindy division with Jamin Jackson, second place in the ILHC 2012 Classic division with Jamin Jackson, and third place in The Snowball 2013 Stricly Lindy division with Gustav Jakobsson.
Hector is a swing dancer (Lindy Hop and Jazz solo). Beginning with the ballroom dances, he felt more interested on the latin rhythms, Afrocuban dances and the Argentinian Tango. It was not until 2005 that he started dancing Lindy Hop, but he was captured by the essence of the dance and he began teaching it in 2009. Nowadays, Hector dances and teaches Cuban Salsa, Argentinian Tango and Lindy hop in different important schools of Barcelona. His teaching is known to be focused on the roots of each dance and he likes to develop one’s own body movements within the couple dance in order to improve both leads and follows connection. Also, he is been using these concepts for his own improving as a dancer by taking part of Working Progress (a Barcelona contemporary dance company) as well as being member of an Afrocuban dance company.
Sonia Ortega
