Specials, Warm Ups and Musicians

Special courses and Warm-ups

Name	Special	Warm Up	Musician Workshop-Band	Pre-party Course Crash course

Mya Nydegger Roger Schmidlin	Is swing music predictable?

Roger Frey	Counter Balance

Tobias Karsten	Body Drumming

Bigna Knecht		Pilates

Laura Attwood		Ballet

Claes Lemcke		Qi-Gong

Dave Ruosch Dani Solimine Thomas Dürst			piano guitar doublebass

Judith Estermann Andrew Twiss				Blues

Katharina Fröhlich Roger Schmidlin				Lindy Hop Crash Course

Description of specal courses and warm-ups

Is swing music predictable?

Do you know the difference between blues and swing? Does the music have a structure that I could use for my danci7ng? How to make a choreography? Have you ever wondered why some dancers can dance to every song as if they know them by heart?

We will try to answer all of these questions in a practical workshop. We hope to show and teach you how to dance better on the music, and thus you will enjoy social dancing and jam sessions even more.

with Roger Schmidlin (CH) and Mya Nydegger (CH)

Counterbalance

In this special class we discover the possibilities of movements that two human body can do together. We will see how the energy of one’s body transmits to another body, and how this energy is received and how to give it back. This class is not is not about sequences of steps, rather about the movements that these impulses trigger. In this special class, you will learn the interaction energies between two bodies while dancing, and how to understand and master it better.

with Roger Frey (CH)

Body Drumming

When we dance, we dance on the rhythm, because there is no music without rhythm. Body percussion is know for a long time, in the real world it can be found in every culture. It is called Schuhplattler in Bavaria, and gumboot dancing in South Africa.

You will learn about your body as a rhythm instrument.Get inspired to new sounds and rhythmic variations such as taps, claps, snaps, and your own voice. Ultimately this about you getting another dose of rhythm for your body, and that is what the dance about.

with Tobias Karsten (D)

Warm ups - touch new grounds (two different daily exercises)

During these lessons we discover other styles and techniques such as ballet, Pilates and Tai Chi, new approaches to our dance. Warm up your muscles, stretch your body, and get ready for the day.

Stir your approach!

Laura Atwood (USA) - Ballet

Bigna Knecht (CH) - Pilates

Claes Lemcke - Qi-Gong

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Crash courses


	Blues Crash und Blues Continuation First experiences in Blues with Andrew Twiss (USA) and Judith Estermann (CH) To wiggle across the dance floor with your partner in tight embrace and an insinuating manner? Far from it! Blues is more than a dance for the enamored or love starved: Blues is a genre of music as well as a style of dancing, its own form of art, which is often mistaken to be unsavoury. It is a unique style of dance that is wide spread in the US, but unfortunately still rather unfamiliar in Europe. Our Blues Crash and Continuation courses offer the perfect opportunity to do away with prejudice, and to discover this beautiful style of dance for yourself, as well as to prepare yourself for the late night Blues at the party on Saturday. For Blues Crash no prior knowledge is required, for Continuation you should have visited Blues Crash. Registration is not required. Friday and Saturday 8pm - 9.30pm. Cost: included in workshop price.Without workshop CHF 15.-/10.-

	Non-Workshop Class - Crash’n’Go First experiences in Lindy Hop with Roger Schmidlin (CH) and Katharina Fröhlich (CH) Come to know the basics of Lindy Hop, learn how to do the basic steps. Feel the spirit of the Swing era and try your first steps on the social dance floor at the subsequent party!! No prior knowledge is required. Participation without registration, Saturday, Dance Academy 8.15pm - 9.15pm in Room 1. Cost: included in the party entrance. (Participants who leave the party before the beginning of the live music will be refunded CHF 20.-).

Beschreibung der Special/Warm Up-Teacher und Musiker


	Mya Audrey (CH) ...is not an unknown face to the STIR IT! crowd. Staring her swing band The Swingin' Cookies she has entertained us at the Friday party 09. The jazz and pop musician musically grew up with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson. She graduated from Swiss Jazz School Bern with a double master in vocals and piano and has played swing for lindy hop dancers in Australia, China and Switzerland. At STIR IT! 11 she will co-teach the Special Is swing music predictable? with Roger Schmidlin.

	Roger Schmidlin (CH) ... started his lindy hop career in Herräng/Sweden in 1995. After visiting the camp, he travelled to the US, where he witnessed the rebirth of swing in California up close and personal. After live dancing a while to Royal Crown Revue and Lavey Smith, he immigrated to Australia where he founded the Perth Swing Dance Society in 1998. He opened a dance studio in Perth and organized numerous events in local clubs. After many years of teaching and performing, he returned to Zurich in 2010. At STIR IT! 11 he will co-teach the Special Is swing music predictable? together with Mya Audrey, and he will also co-teach the Crash’n’Go together with Katharina Fröhlich.

	Roger Frey ...has completed his formation 2003 in Zurich to become a well-trained performance dancer. After graduation Roger has turned entirely toward the world of the swing dance and teaches lindy hop, boogie woogie and blues on a national and international level. At STIR IT! 11 he will co-teach the Special Counter Balance together with Inga Glogger.

	Tobias Karsten Tobias will be our witty and charming guide through the workshop. As our MC he will entertain us like last year. Being a comedian, singer, lindy hop and step dancer, he’s definitely the right man for this job. He describes himself as dancer and comedian. This year he’ll challenge us additionally with the Special Body percussion.

Workshop-Musiker	Dave Ruosch, piano - Dani Solimine, guitar - Thomas Dürst, doublebass Most of the awareness of a good swing musician is focused on the music and not so much on playing the instrument. When working together with dancers the visual aspect in addition becomes more important, too. These three musicians are specialized on listening to and responding subtly to the dancers. They are all enthusiastic about bringing live music into the dance workshop, discovering common themes of both dancers and musicians and creating a dialog between music and dance. Live music meets the dance, sets off inspiration and gets inspired in exchange. Three excellent sidemen will serve as the rhythm section for Steven, the dancing soloist, and the participants. At STIR IT! 11 they will enrich Steven's lessons!