Session One (noon-2:30pm): Lindy For leaders, this will be a lesson in how to have a seemingly infinite flow of comfortable, musical movement. For the follows, we'll take the mystery out of following, and put a lot of energy towards perfecting your technique.
Session Two (3:30-6:00): The Play of Blues: For both Mike and Megan, the biggest joy of blues is play- with the music, with our bodies, and with each other. Come to this session prepared to challenge your own movement and play- the way we do it.
Both sessions are extremely limited on space. Each session is limited to 20 people, so email Mike at immaculateconnection at gmail dot com to ensure a spot. Each session is only $35, or sign up for both sessions for only $60. Mike and Megan will also be available for private lessons all weekend long- $40/hr for 1-2 people ($35/hr for students), or 3-6 people for $60/hr.
Bios:
Megan Adair loves to dance to all kinds of music in all kinds of ways. She started dancing in 1997 and since then has learned from a variety of teachers including Steven Mitchell & Virginie Jensen, Dawn Hampton, Peter Strom, Sylvia Sykes. She considers lindy hop and blues to be her dance home, but she loves to explore other genres such as belly dance, hip hop, and African.As a teacher, Megan refines her students' ability to move their own bodies in order to achieve better partner connection while remaining grounded in and moved by the music. As both a strong lead and a responsive follow, she has a wealth of experience and dance ability to draw from whether teaching private lessons or group classes.
Megan also loves to choreograph. It's not unusual to see her with a glazed look in her eye as a yet-to-be-manifested performance plays itself out in her mind as she listens to music of all sorts. Most recently she combined elements of African, Charleston, and hip hop into a performance routine for children she's been teaching at Community School for the Arts in Knoxville, Tennessee. She's also a charter member of the Hoodoo Ladies, a dance troupe who has entertained audiences from D.C. to St. Louis, and places in between.
Above all, Megan loves to dance, and she brings her joy, passion, and playfulness with her onto the floor.
Mike (the Girl) Legett began dancing in 2001 with the "new victims" package from a ballroom studio in Memphis, TN. She converted to swing in Knoxville a few months later, where she fell in love with Lindy and Blues in the winter of 2002-2003. She entertained an off-and-on flirtation with Tango for a while before really committing in Atlanta in February 2007. It wasn't long before she left grad school to become a full-time dance junkie, a position she still holds.Mike's true loves in life are teaching, dancing, following, and music. She can't place them in an order, because for her, these things are intrinsically linked. She has taught at countless regional Blues and Lindy events in the Southeast, as well as national events such as Lindy Focus and Enter the Blues. Mike lives in the worlds of Lindy, Blues, and Tango (again in no order), but also attends the Eastern Balboa Championships each year, and even performed in an all-girls Charleston troupe at Camp Jitterbug's Jump Session Show in 2007. She has also performed in the all-girl solo blues troupe the Hoodoo Ladies at events from Capital Blues Cabin Fever in DC to BluesShout in St. Louis. Most recently, she spent one month as the Instructor-in-Residence for Philadelphia Lindy and Blues, teaching 2 workshops, a masters' class, a performance troupe review, a four-week series, and over 60 private lessons. She considers it to be one of the most challenging, educational, and rewarding experiences in her teaching career.
Mike combines an intuitive understanding of connection with an analytical speaking style to give her students technique, but also strives to challenge and inspire her students to push themselves further into the music. She aims to help leaders create artistic compositions that are clearly led. She wants follows to have the ability to be the completely literal follow, and the inspiration and freedom to be an imaginative and dynamic contributor; in the classroom or on the social floor, she seeks a connection that involves active communication from both partners, to make a dance together.
Partial CV:
Performances: KLX 07, Camp Jitterbug Jump Session Show 07, ATLX 07, BluesShout 07, Southern Belle Swing Bash 06, Cheap Thrills 06, Capital Blues Cabin Fever 06.
Blues Instructor at: Burn Blue May 08, Friday Night Blues May 08, Built for Blues 08, Steel City Blues 08, Enter the Blues 08, Lindy Focus 08, Atlanta Varsity Showdown 07, Atlanta Regional tango Exchange 07, Buenos Aires Blues 07, Battle of the Cities 07, Valentines Uproar 07, Lindy Focus 07
Lindy Instructor at: Private Collection 08, Sunstate Jam 08, Tucson Lindy Bomb 08, Lindy Focus 08, Private Collection 07, Connection Campaign 07, Battle of the Cities 07,
Tango Instructor at: Atlanta Regional Tango Exchange 07, Buenos Aires Blues 08
Miscellaneous: March 08 Instructor-in-Residence for Philadelphia Lindy and Blues, Southern Belle Swing Bash 07 winner of the Ann Johnson Award for most inspirational follow
To register or request a private with Mike or Megan, email Mike at immaculateconnection at gmail dot com.
Cheers,
-m.
