Two days Blüesli workshop in Zürich 28th and 29th of March with live music on Saturday night.
We are super excited to have Penny & Lukas all the way from Taiwan!
Stay tuned for more infos comming soon!
About your teachers
Penny & Lucas or “Pencas” in short are both from Taiwan. In 2017, they met through Blues dance, connected by music and movement.
They believe that “dancing is an innate ability that everyone possesses, a natural source of joy.”
Through sharing Blues, they hope more people can rediscover their natural body movements, express themselves in simple ways, enjoy music, and connect with others through the language of dance, creating unique and beautiful moments together.
Afro-fusion taster class
For this edition, we’ll have an Afro fusion taster class given by Boris Da Costa, one of the finalists of the Red Bull Dance Your Style, Switzerland.
Boris primarily dances locking and Afro Fusion, but also incorporates elements of hip-hop into his style. His dance career began early with Ndombolo, influenced by his family. A strong personal commitment led him to become a dance teacher and stage performer.
Live-music with Amaury
Harmonicist, guitarist and singer, Amaury Faivre is an acoustic blues artist, with a 25 years carreer, and more than 1000 stages on 3 continents and a dozen countries.
Born in Besançon in France, he blows for the first time in his father’s harmonica at the age of 8, and he naturally started playing the music of the blues pioneers, listening to artists like Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell or John Lee Hooker… Learning jazz and its complex harmony will make him a great improviser. He starts guitar and singing, and most of all the chromatic harmonica which has been a key element to his musical personality ever since. His career debuts with the Prix du Public at the Jeunesses Musicales de France in Paris at the age of 15, and he rapidly joins local blues, jazz and rock bands. After a Bachelor of Musicology at the University of Besançon, and two years of jazz guitar studies at the Université de Montreal, he comes back to Europe and settles in Geneva.
He starts the duo Electric Hat with Jean Rigo, singer of Les Infidèles, from blues to Soul Music, through Rock n’Roll and Jazz. Amaury begins a collaboration with the Geneva guitarist Yves Staubitz among the electric blues band Amaury Faivre & the Broken Harps with whom he records Ol’ Days Feel in 2012. Later, Yves follows him in the acoustic Amaury Faivre Duo. It is with this duo that Amaury discovers a passion and a certain talent for composition, and they win the 2017 Swiss Blues Challenge. This award gives them the opportunity to represent Switzerland at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis where they obtain a beautiful place in the Semi-Finals, and they end up 4th at the European Blues Challenge in Norway. After a rich year with great European blues stages (Cahors, Sierre, Vallemaggia, Salaise…) they release Crazy Old Man, on the frontiers of blues, jazz and folk.
After years backed up by electric bands, acoustic duos or even a symphonic orchestra, he builds during the world pandemic the One Man Blues Show he offers today. In this perspective he releases the album 2020, back to his early folk-blues roots influence, with no hesitation to handle the banjo and mandolin or hit hard a gloomy stomp-box !
Workshop schedule
Saturday (3.5 hours couple classes + 1 hour afro-fusion taster)
10:45: Check-in
11:00 – 12:30: Blues class (couple)
12:30 – 13:45: Lunch break
13:45 – 14:45: Blues class (couple)
14:45 – 15:00: 15 min break
15:00 – 16:00: Blues class (couple)
20:00 – 21:00: Afro fusion with Boris
21:00 – 01:00: Saturday night party with live music
21:15 – 22:00: First live set
22:30 – 23:15: Second live set
Sunday (1 hour solo + 3 hours couple classes)
12:30: Check-in
12:45 – 13:45: Blues class with Lucas (solo)
13:45 – 14:00: 15 min break
14:00 – 15:00: Blues class (couple)
15:00 – 15:15: 15 min break
15:15 – 16:15: Blues class (couple)
16:15 – 16:30: 15 min break
16:30 – 17:00: Blues class (couple)
Party
There’s a fridge at the venue, but no alcool on sale – bring your own drinks (or get some at the Coop just downstairs)!
Entry free for workshop participants. Everyone else 15.- CHF
Venue
All classes and the party will be taking place at UNITED DANCE STUDIO, Hohlstrasse 560, 8048 Zürich – just next to Bahnhof Altstetten.
Prices
Full Blüesli: 220 CHF / 180 reduced (2 days, party incl.)
One day Blüesli: 130 CHF / 110 CHF reduced (1 day, party incl.)
Saturday party only: 15.- (no registration needed)
If you register for only Saturday or only Sunday, you will be placed on a waiting list until close to the workshop, where we can decide if there is space for single-day registrations. Thank you for understanding.
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You just want to party? All Swiss blues events can be found in the shared google Calendar or on LindyHop.ch (use filter Zürich & Blues)