WALK-IN REGISTRATION - TEAGLE HALL GYM
Tues, Aug 26 - 8:30 - 4pm and Wed, Aug 27 - noon - 4pm

NON-CREDIT, NON-STUDENT? Please note!
You may register in class, check to "CORNELL UNIVERSITY"

ADD-DROP deadline Friday Sept 12
10:00 -11:30am and 1:30-3:30pm Bartels Hall (Athletic Field House) Lobby
(late enrollment fee $30 for credit students enrolling after this time)

PRE-REQUISITES:
Either PE 146, or good familiarity with single-step and triple-step swing footwork, leader-follower technique, and basic turns. You are going to want to practice at least once a week, but it will be worth it. Lots of fun, useful, challenging,showy, and pleasurable material!   What do students have to say about the course? Check it out.

SYLLABUS:
1. Fast Lindy Hop techniques - fast swing out style, etc.
2. Partnered Charlestons: more advanced and challenging moves.
3. Jump Swing: Jump Swing. Tunnels, Ducks, Orbits, Pretzels, Reverses, ...
    The most advanced course of its kind in the area. Hot dancing to fast music.
4. Footwork variations: Sugarfoot variations, Scissors, Grapevine, Swivel, etc.)
5. Movement: what it means to feel "grounded", "centered", how to do it, and exercises to develop it.
6. Connection: employing the muscle tone required to feel better about dancing together
7. SHIM SHAM - classic harlem jazz.lindy sequence - extra sessions (not Sunday).

The current incarnation of PE147, in addition to a continuation of JUMPSWING (fast Lindy technique re-mixed), is a dedicated Lindy Hop Level I & II course, aimed at communicating the inner physical sense of momentum, balance, grounding, centering, RHYTHM, connection, feel, and all those ideas that are so vague and baffling to those who are clueless as to their meaning when instructors casually thrust such terms upon them. Based on experience with instructors of all abilities, and our own analysis, we continually explore effective exercises that communicate and develop the feel and joy of this sophisticated dance. The core move, the SWING OUT, hence becomes all the more physically and energically intelligible.

Kurt's studies of Chinese Qigong under African-American master Maurice Haltom (www.mauricehaltom.com), exploring with him the profound and fascinating relation of ancient Chinese insights and applications of body-earth-sky energies to African Dance and Movement, have helped considerably in developing his current approach to movement for dancing. Yes, we will be doing some excercises to build body awareness. Lindy Hop is at its core a jazz dance with a partner. Creative rhythmic improvisation with all parts of the body can be taught, if one is open to learning.

PE147 incorporates what we call Jumpswing - a name that we have applied to a subset of fast Lindy Hop 6 & 8 count moves, strategically collected as a complete syllabus for the average dancer, much more effective than triple step or single step east coasts swing as an entry level pedagogical strategy. We love it, our students love it, and you often see top professional lindy hop champions dancing jumpswing sequences, although they just call it fast lindy.

Since its inception, PE147 has evolved to suit the needs, desires and abilities of the students who take the course, just as PE146 Swing Intro has similarly evolved. We take a strongly creative, evolving approach to instruction. We support the Cornell Rooftop Mayhem Swing Club (a Jumpswing Club) and the Cornell Swing Dance Club (a traditional Lindy Hop Club).

SHOES:
You must bring, not wear, leather-soled shoes, OR sneakers with worn white (not black) soles. Neither? OK, dance in your socks, but it's harder to spin. You can't spin in basketball sneakers. We can't mess up the HN dance floor. Want dance shoes? Check the Home Page DANCE SHOE click.

WEATHER ALERT:
Make sure shoes/sneakers are dry before you walk onto any of our dance floors. The water really messes up our leather-soled dance shoes, and makes the floor dangerously slippery.

We leave you with one additional thought viz lead-follow connection:
"If you wish to connect well with others, you must connect well with yourself ."
2006 Addendum: "Um, good luck on that...."

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