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Get ready to groove in the Windy City as Chicago offers a variety of dance classes including ballet, hip-hop, jazz, and contemporary, where participants can learn different techniques and styles to enhance their dancing skills.
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Adult Jazz
Foster Dance Studios @ 915 Foster St, Chicago, IL
This class is an all level Jazz Dance class for students 16 years old and up.
$16
Joy of Burlesque! Dance Fitness
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3317 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL
Experience the joy of burlesque! Embark on a thrilling journey as you follow the leader, immersing yourself in a world of electrifying bumps, mesmerizing grinds, tantalizing shimmies, and captivating struts. Embracing the power of femininity and celebrate the beauty of your unique shape. Bring your performance to life by seamlessly incorporating choreography into your own acts. Immerse yourself in the rhythmic beats and embrace your body’s movements...
Contemporary V
Foster Dance Studios @ 915 Foster St, Chicago, IL
This class is an advanced Contemporary class for students 14 years old and up.
$20
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Hireability & Making Money
Whether you are an aspiring or established performers, some of the most important choices you'll make in your burlesque career will involve who to work with, who to turn down, and when to ask for more money. In this class, we'll discuss what characteristics make a performer hireable and how to make the most of your current and potential resources via organization, finding your niche, ettiquette, and even community politics! This class demystifies...
Professional Performer Practicum: Stage Presence
Whether your performance style is sexy or funny, whether you are standing, talking, or dancing, learn techniques that will allow you to become more accessible to the audience. With emphasis on confidence-driven movement drills, facial expressions, and mental focus and calm, this class is geared towards established and aspiring performers who'd like to appear more comfortable on stage. Teacher will guide students through techniques including...
Performer Branding 101: The Basics
This course will teach you the basics of establishing and marketing your brand as a performer. We'll cover: getting an email address, domain purchasing/hosting, what goes into a performer website, business cards, headshots, social media and more! With almost 10 years of advertising experience for brands such as Microsoft, Glade, Starbucks and bebe - let Shimmy help you get your online life!
Fundamentals of Serving Face and Body
Dress sharply head to toe and experience several exercises designed to work your every angle for an audience of one or a sold out crowd. Formalwear required
Dance Flair & Clean Lines : For Stage Performers
Add pizazz with some fun dance techniques & refine your lines with dancer & performer Gaea Lady! This workshop will teach how to be aware of and extend the lines of your body for the stage to help embody characters, invite grace, and strike clean poses. We'll then play with fun spins & turns, leg extensions, core stability, and fancy footwork to add into your stage routines. Beginner-Intermediate movers of all ages & backgrounds...
Lilly Rascal's Rock and Roll Workshop
Do you like Burlesque but always wanted to it to have an edge? Lilly Rascal is teaching her Rock and Roll workshop - she will combine rock and roll with classic burlesque moves, using different genres of rock music to teach you kick-ass combinations, across the floor and floor work that will really rip your fishnets!!
Chair and Boa Work
Learn from a burlesque legend! In this special workshop that has been taught all over the country by esteemed BHOF legend and Las Vegas resident Tiffany Carter, you will be guided through using props like chairs and boas to improve your stage presence and appearance.
Movement for Everybody
Ideal for performers with disabilities, those without dance training, big bodied performers, or movers who want to branch out from their training this movement workshop utilizes the principles of Integrated Dance to make your body work for you. Utilized by Candoco Dance Company and Axis dance company, Integrated Dance is a method of individualized technique. We will take a somatic approach to movement and explore three core principles: Intention,...
Burlesque Clownesque
Using techniques of body movement, facial expressions, humor and exaggeration, you can become a burlesque clown. The clown comes from within ourselves, from our body's creativity and discovering this gives us permission and freedom to be crazy and wacky! Polly will help you create a burlesque clown through exercises and explanations. Whether you're a clown who would like to discover burlesque or burlesque artist who would like to explore clowning,...
Slow & Tease-y
This workshop will help you learn find the confidence it takes to embrace the sensuality of stillness. Whether you freeze up or freak out when performing, it's difficult to be motionless on stage. Learning to project control and emotion in those moments is an indispensable skill you'll learn in this class. This course is designed to help you channel a strong, slow, sexiness that will help you take your burlesque routines to the next level.
The Art of Asking
The hoots, hollers, and wild appause from the audience can be one of the most gratifying parts of burlesque. This class teaches an ethic of interaction and reciprocity with the audience, focusing on learning how to earn audience feedback and let the audience know when it's time to cheer. Make your "Wow!" moments land harder, and keep your character up from your first step on stage to the flutter close of the curtains.
Cane Technique & Balancing
Learn a no-fail technique for spinning, balancing, and dancing with a cane in this workshop which will leave you able to manipulate this prop with confidence.
Pastie Making
Pasties are one of those burlesque basics that almost all performers should be proficient in. In this workshop, you'll learn about different Pastie making materials, shapes, and embellishments. We'll also address speciality and novelty pasties, as an added bonus! If you have a costume that you'd like the pasties to match, or any materials you think you'd like to incorporate into pasties, please bring them along. All skill levels welcome!
Tassel Twirling
Up, down, round and round! Tasseled pasties are probably one of the most ubiquitous hallmarks of burlesque. Learn the basics of twirling, including different directions, one tassel at a time, and different body positions that encourage tantalizing twirling! We'll also take a side step into the world of assles, too. Note that you will be required to bare your boobies for this workshop. Please bring a pair of tasseled pasties and application adhesive,...
Veil Technique
Useful for any dance performer, this class will teach you how to go beyond manipulating the cloth and seamlessly move across stage with your new dance "partner." Veils available for use.
Fan Dancing Basics for Burlesque
Sally Rand style fan dancing with those giant ostrich fans certainly looks effortless, and tons of fun! However, there are many technical aspects to this performance style. We'll learn just the basics, like proper fan handling, fan upkeep, and a few, fun, feathery moves. If you have fans, please bring them, otherwise there will be a rental charge of $10 for a set. No dance experience required.
Chair Workout
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3614 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL
Get ready to break a sweat! The first 45 minutes are dedicated to a chair workout that targets your core, arms, and butt -- get it toned! We follow that up with 15 minutes of stretching. Barefoot or gym shoes please!
$12
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