Mercure Hotel, Shipton Road, Skelton, York. YO30 1XW
2 Rooms - 6 Teachers - 6 DJ’s including Kerry B - 2am finishes + Free Usage of Roko Gym & Pool Sauna
Euphoria Events, Modern Jive 4* Weekender:
With 2 Main Dance Styles - Modern Jive & 2nd Dance Argentine Tango with Guillermo & Alexandra (International Dance Stars). Lead Teachers teaching Modern Jive Keith & Janey.
With a Splash of West Coast Swing, Latin Ballroom, Individual Fun Dances & Adult Ballet (Some styles TBC such as Blues)
Saturday Freestyle has a Fancy Dress Theme TBC optional but most do join in.
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This is an amazing opportunity to dance the weekend away in this Beautiful Hotel, Restaurants, Bars & Ballroom. This Hotel is part of the Mercure Chain, but has that Privately Owned, Proudness to it! Includes Bed, Breakfast, Evening Meal.
Early Bookings get a potential FREE upgrade
2 Nights Accommodation with Full Weekender Pass, Inc Sunday Chill & Fun Dance yours for just £299pp sharing, Single Rooms - Carry a £35 per night Single Supplement, so single occupancy over 2 nights is £369.
Sunday Night from just £89pp sharing. For those wishing to stay over Sunday night, we can arrange it on an individual basis (May include a single supplement of £35) Inc’s a 3 Course Evening Meal & Breakfast though.
So 3 nights sharing is £388pp or £493 Single Occupancy.
Friday & Saturday Night: Fun get to know each other class around 9.30 - 10pm Friday, Dancing Modern Jive 8.30pm till 2am, 2 Rooms with Teacher Introduction Friday plus Saturday Full Cabaret via some of our teachers & dancers .
Room 2: 8 - 10pm WCS, then Argentine Tango till around 2am with some late night fusion.
Saturday & Sunday Workshops 10.30am - 5.30pm 2 rooms approximately 12+ Workshops each day
Sunday Fun & Chill Dance: 8 - 10.30pm (Includes Complimentary Water & Parking) Then it’s off home, or join us for a pure calm down and chill out that evening in the residents bar, no dancing after 10.30pm, just lots of lovely company and chit chat in the bar
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Your Teachers TBC:
We always aim to provide amazing Modern Jive Weekenders, whilst also dipping your toe into dances such as Argentine Tango, West Coast Swing, Blues, Latin Ballroom, American Swing & Lindy Hop plus our now famous fun group dance and this weekender is no exception, see below. Our 2 Main Dances are Modern Jive & Argentine Tango.
Guillermo & Alexandra, They first started dancing together in the West End Hit, Midnight Tango and are presently working with Vincent Simone on his latest Theatre Show! They have danced on BBC’s Strictly, ITV's This Morning and BBC2 Classic Brit awards. They travel world wide teaching and performing and they are currently touring between classes with the Uk show 'Tango Motion' with Tango Siempre.
Keith & Janey will be one of your Main Modern Jive Teacher’s - they have performed on the same stage as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Katie Melua & worked alongside Alisha Dixon on the BBC, Keith with Vicky also won the Ceroc Scottish & World Showcase 2018/19.
Linz, the Queen of Choreography, Smooth Jive & WCS, keeping things fun and getting everyone into the groove - a firm favourite with ALL our dancers, teaching MJ, WCS & Group Fun Dance.
Phil & Wendy from Stepz in time & Warrington Westies, teaching some great amazing Jive & West Coast routines & Tips…
Sophie Brooke from Feather Steps School of Dance: Teaching Fun Latin Ballroom
Jan C, Fun Adult Ballet. You loved it last year & insisted we get her back, so here she is :)
DJ’s TBC Kerry B, Phil Greenall, Wendy Greenall, Keith D, Lindsay B, Paul Forber.
Freestyles - Workshops - Weekender Passes, will be released closer to the date depending on gender Lead/Follower balancing)
Workshops will grow progressively through the weekend, starting with foundation & more basic moves, or tricks you can do with a more basic move, getting more in-depth & trickier as the weekend progresses.
So no matter what level you are at, you should find quite a lot to suit:
We are heavily Modern Jive, with a further split throughout our weekenders often Argentine Tango, West Coast Swing, Zouk, Blues, Lindy/1940’s Swing + a great favourite of our dancers, the Fun Group Dance (Some dances TBC).
Please Note: We do our best to Gender Balance (Leads v Followers)
