A chance to grab a cup of tea, catch up, cuddle, and connect with people before the day's events.

Here’s a wild and wonderful mix of dance, movement, authentic relating, embodied consent, speed mating (platonic speed dating), self-care and co-care and all sorts of silly and wholesome exercises and games to make you feel all warm and welcome. Get to know yourself and get to know your dance pals!

Opening up the embrace and using the possibilities of that hold to experiment with separating the connection - playing with isolating your own body, isolating your partner’s body, and the possibilities for musicality when you then re-enter synchrony and connection

Latin dance can bring so much variety to body rolls. This class will explore the different types of body rolls from Latin, Bachata, and Zouk to discover how different energies can bring different feelings to the dance.

We’ll explore options for playing on a continuum of role fluidity, ranging from follow voice to full role switching, while maintaining a very strong feeling of connection. For this, the class will use minimal vocabulary (weight shift variations, simple upper body isolations, etc.) to play micro dance games ranging from easy to challenging. Class attendees will experience all role options equally