All workshops will take place at Ballroom and Country Dance, located at 121C 17th Ave NE , Calgary AB.

The Schedule

Saturday, October 17th (Upper Ballroom)
10:00am – 1:00pm: Latest Greatest, Mardi’s Choice Choreography
2:00pm – 4:00pm: Slowly… New Sentences

Evening: the show!

Sunday, October 18th (Lower Ballroom)
10:00am – 12:00pm: Tek Attack!!! Class of Dum. The Ol’ Clangalang (Zills)
1:00pm-3:00pm: Shiny New Combos

Workshop Descriptions

Latest Greatest, Mardi’s Choice Choreography
Just like it sounds, we’re learning a new piece. Hooray! Movement will be presented in sentences, thoroughly broken down and drilled, while careful attention will be given to the hows and whys and the smaller details in the dance. Side note: When I teach a choreography class, it is my intention not to simply feed you a dance that you take home and repeat on your stage (though that’s certainly one option), but that you (1.) may pick up a few movements/sentences of movements/transitions that resonate with you, and (2.) that you may gain some insight as to how I like to build a dance; that is how I see the music and illustrate it in movement.

Slowly……New Sentences.  
Presenting a grouping of furling, rolling, sultry movements for the slow dances. Why, it’s Mardi’s favorite thing to do. Long and drawn, undulating and curving, movements will be drilled and executed in beautiful progression.

TEK ATTACK!!! CLASS OF DUM. THE OL’ CLANGALANG.
Oh where have the days of blue fingertips and bleeding eardrums gone? Mardi presents a pocketful of percussive sentences and movement to go with em.

Shiny New Combinations
Here is a small collection of new combinations focusing on stylization and nuance in the extremities, and intuitive transition in movement.

For pricing information, head over to the Registration page.