Dance Blues Friday
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Blues dance is a family of Black American vernacular dances danced to blues music; dances within this family are linked by shared aesthetics and techniques rooted in Black American traditions and historical context.
Blues Dance
As different styles of blues music developed around the country, the conglomeration of blues dances evolved in parallel with these regional music styles. While blues isn’t a single dance, the many blues idiom dances (e.g. slow drag, struttin’) are united in shared aesthetics and techniques, commonly referred to as the blues aesthetic.
Blues aesthetic includes the use of broken lines, groundedness, asymmetry, pulse, ephebism, and the aesthetic of cool.
Close embrace is the primary connection point in most blues idiom dance.
This dance position involves connection between the upper chest of two partners. However, you will see a variety of other dance positions on the modern dance floors such as closed position, open position, and breakaway dancing.
Blues music and dancing has an extremely wide range of expression from thoughtful, to sad, to playful, to powerful, and sorrowful. This is one of the reasons I love this family of dances!
Blues dance isn’t inherently sexual. It can be suggestive, sensual, and a variety of other emotions. Blues can be sexual between two consenting adults, but then again, so can really any dance style
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LESSON: 8:00pm-9:00pm
DANCE: 9:00pm-11:30pm
ADMISSION: $10 general admission/$8 for students and seniors. Must be paid in cash at the door.
LOCATION: STUDIO 5 - FORMER LINDY LAB STUDIO at Triangle Dance Studios, 2603 S. Miami Blvd, Durham (middle door of the building on the far part of the parking lot when you pull in from Miami Blvd - look for the RDU Blues sign on the door!)
COVID PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS: Masks are encouraged!
Join us November 17, 2023 for Dance Blues Friday!
The beginner's lesson will begin at 8:00.
Open social dancing to DJed Blues music is from 9:00 until 11:30
*** Please bring CASH to pay for your entry. ***
Dance Blues Friday