Advancing Your Bourrée de Berry Deux Temps

During this deep dive workshop we will start with the basics of the bourrée to get everyone in the same framework and state of mind. After that we’ll expand this framework and see where we can vary from it to create interesting situations. We will work on getting the steps and choreography from your mind to your body or heart so there is room free in your head for other things. We will then fill this room with more details about the bourrée like different musical styles and rhythms which can exists in the bourrée. Once we feel comfortable dancing the bourrée in any situation we will start to really play in the bourrée. We will focus on communication in the couple or group and introduce several tools you can use to create a very special dance together. We won’t teach you any specific variations or choreographies in this workshop. But we’ll give you tools so you can develop these yourself and improve your communication in the bourrée over the next weeks or months or years!

Teachers: Marc Meijerink and Leo Visser

Duration: At least 4 hours (if less then we require a group which has a basic level already).

Requirements: A sound system where we can plug in laptop in. An even floor, not too slippery.

Prerequisites for participants: Bourrée basics workshop or another extensive bourrée workshop. Otherwise at least 2 years bourrée experience in multiple musical styles. You must be able to hear the difference between the A part and B part of a bourrée the berry in the music and to feel the rhythm of the bourrée in your body yet while dancing.