Jazz to House Intensive

When: Sunday, December 29th
Where: Hilton Seattle Airport Conference Center
Price: $90, $60 for The Beacon Studio members (member will get a discount code via email from The Beacon)
To register: Click the button below. Follow the prompts and select “Sunday Day Pass - Dec 29th”. If you’d like to enter the multi-style solo contest, select “All That Jazz” on the Choose Contests page.

This intensive is designed to bring together the Club, Street and Jazz dance communities to intentionally explore their shared movements, history, and culture. We’re bringing in instructors from across the continent that are experts in the intersection of these art forms, so don’t miss out on this rare opportunity!

Moncell Durden is a dance educator, choreographer, ethnographer, embodied historian, author and associate professor of practice at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman International School of Dance. He specializes in pedagogical practices that prove cultural and historical context in what he calls the morphology of Afro-kinetic memory.

Raoul Wilke is is currently Faculty at Ryerson Dance School, educating students on these vernacular dance forms that helped shape him into the man he is today. As a student of dance, he continues to live by the quote, “ See the music, Hear the Dance” by Balanchine.

Nathan Bugh is one of the world's leading exponents of Lindy Hop and vernacular jazz dance. His stage appearances include: Carnegie Hall (Swing Swing Swing w/ New York Pops), The Apollo Theater (Swingin’ Frankie’s Way), and Jacob’s Pillow (Earthbeat!, More Forever, SW!NG OUT).

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