Open Space – Wednesday 17th Feb @ 5pm (GMT)
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As part of an ongoing effort to provide a platform that nourishes mutual understanding, fosters diversity, artistic and creative development and leadership capacity our talented volunteers are running OPEN SPACE. We invite you to join these FREE sessions. Just add to your basket, complete the checkout and we’ll send you the Zoom link. If you are already registered for TDFUK 2021, then you don’t need to do this.
We’ll all meet up together on Zoom for Suze to introduce you to this year’s Open Space facilitators. During the Zoom call, we will then share the individual links to each session. We’ve decided to spread the sessions out so you will be able to attend two sessions if you wish. Rebecca Crookes and Sophie Leake will take their sessions from approximately 5.15pm to 6pm (GMT) and Rebecca Keen, Jasmine Zia and Rebecca Hastings will be from approximately 6pm to 7pm (GMT)
Taking place on Wednesday 17th Feb @ 5pm (GMT)
Open Space Sessions
Open Space Kick Off
5pm GMT
We’ll all meet up together on Zoom for Suze to introduce you to this years Open Space Facilitators. During the Zoom call, we will then share the individual links to each session. We’ve decided to spread the sessions out so you will be able to attend two sessions, if you wish. Rebecca Crookes and Sophie Leake will take their sessions from approx. 5.15 to 6pm (GMT) and Rebecca Keen, Jasmine Zia and Rebecca Hastings will be from approx. 6pm to 7pm (GMT)
Rebecca Crookes
5.15pm GMT
In this 30 minute, open level class we will work on exercises and a short piece of choreography to develop the style and movement of the performance. We will show that even the simplest of steps can be made to look advanced. This class can be done without heels if you don’t have any or in other heeled shoes that aren’t tap shoes.
Sophie Leake
5.15pm GMT
Objective: After attending this session, you should have a greater awareness of accents and feel more comfortable executing them in choreography or improvisation.
What you can expect to do during the session: This session is aimed at dancers who are around or above an Intermediate level. After a warm up you’ll learn some exercises that work on articulating accents, which you can take away with you and practice to build your technique. Then we’ll finish with a fun combo to music that has a focus on- you guessed it- accents!
Rebecca Keen
6pm GMT
To learn complex, fun and exciting choreography that consists of the British & American style tap with a little hint of Irish in there too, to a upbeat Queen remix of “Another One Bites The Dust.” This piece I created was award winning choreography at the Dance World Cup in 2019, gaining incredible feedback from top tap professionals for its intricate choreography and innovative style. This class will be suitable for Intermediate/ Advanced level tappers who like a challenge but also like to have fun and enjoy this queen classic.
Jasmine Zia
6pm GMT
In this session we will start with a quick warm up and then go into some commercial tap choreography to today’s chart hits songs! In my classes I like to try and combine simplistic and more advanced steps to create a routine that will feel familiar but also challenging! After teaching the combination we will then do a short cool down to finish! After completing my session you should have greater awareness of timing and how combinations of seemingly simplistic steps make complex choreography!
Rebecca Hastings
6pm GMT
This session will be inspired by the high engery and dynamic style of The Nicholas Brothers and the music of jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton. I would like anyone attending the session to learn about these great people (if they don’t already know who they are!), challenge themselves to inform their musicality by using everything the music gives us and share the joy of tap and this great music! In the session we will do a warm up, followed by a routine inspired by The Nicholas Brothers to the song ‘The Jam’ from Jelly’s Last Jam, finishing with a cool down. In the routine we will focus on musicality and hearing the rhythms in the music to help us play them with our feet, playing with the steps to create a performance, and relaxation as the music picks up in speed.
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Schedule 2021
What is Open Space?
As part of an ongoing effort to provide a platform that nourishes mutual understanding, fosters diversity, artistic and creative development and leadership capacity our talented volunteers are running OPEN SPACE. We invite you to join these FREE sessions. Just add to your basket, complete the checkout and we'll send you the Zoom link. If you are already registered for TDFUK 2021, then you don't need to do this.
The aim of Open Space is to provide a exploratory and safe space for participants to share or introduce other Festival goers to a style of their choice or something they are working on and wish to share with others for feedback. This format is also an opportunity to assist participants build their own teaching portfolio, and is a opportunity for TDFUK to scout for Future Faculty.
We’ll all meet up together on Zoom for Suze to introduce you to this year's Open Space facilitators. During the Zoom call, we will then share the individual links to each session. We’ve decided to spread the sessions out so you will be able to attend two sessions if you wish. Rebecca Crookes and Sophie Leake will take their sessions from approximately 5.15pm to 6pm (GMT) and Rebecca Keen, Jasmine Zia and Rebecca Hastings will be from approximately 6pm to 7pm (GMT)
