Craiglands, Cowpasture Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire. LS29 8RQ - Saturday Theme TBA
Friday 27th - Mon 30th June: Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal, Full Weekender Dance Pass with Dancing till 2am, from just £285pp Sharing for 2 Nights or £365 for 3 nights. Single Occupancy just £345pp for 2 nights or £445 for 3 nights.
2 Rooms - 5 Teachers 20+ Workshops - 6 DJ’s - 2am finishes.
If you enjoy your country walks, this is definitely the weekender for you, they even wrote a song about it! "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat). Also only 500 yards away you have the beautiful village, with amazing shops & eateries, inc Betty’s Tea Rooms!. It really is a gorgeous village.
Euphoria Events, Modern Jive Weekender With our Main Dance Styles being Modern Jive, 2nd Main Dance TBA.
With a Splash of Argentine Tango, West Coast Swing, Fun Group Dance & Blues (Some styles TBC).
**Saturday Freestyle has an Optional Theme ‘TBA’.
This is an amazing opportunity to dance the weekend away (Or Walk) in these beautiful surroundings, Bed, Breakfast and Evening Meal + Free WiFi & Parking all included.
Early Bookings get a potential FREE upgrade, whilst Single Rooms - Carry a £27pn Single Supplement (supplemented slightly by Euphoria Events as we think Single Sup’s aren’t that fair!).
2 Nights Accommodation with Full Weekender Pass, Inc’s our Sunday Squeeze Dance 7:30 - 11pm, Dancing Friday and Saturday from 8pm - 2am min, with an optional Sunday Night (See above for costs), Inc’s Bed, Breakfast & Evening Meal.
Friday Night: Fun Class circa 9.30pm, Dancing MJ 8pm till 2am, 2 Rooms with Teacher Introduction.
Room 2: 8:30pm - 1am A fusion of Smooth Dancing, where you can incorporate your WCS, Smooth Jive, Tango & Blues (All the chilled smooth stuff!).
Saturday Workshops/Freestyle: Workshops 10.30am - 5.30pm 2 rooms, Freestyle 8pm - 2am, with Teacher & Fun Cabaret and always our latest, busiest night. Room 2: Same Format as Friday Night.
Sat Fancy Dress Theme ‘TBA’ Optional
Sunday Workshops/Squeeze Dance: Workshops 10.30am - 5.30pm 2 rooms, then dancing from 7:30pm - 11pm (Includes: Complimentary cake, water & Parking) Then it’s off home, or join us for a pure calm down and chill out that evening in the residents bar, lots of lovely company and chit chat in the bar.
For those wishing to stay over Sunday night it also Inc’s Evening Meal Sunday & Breakfast on Monday.
Your Teachers:
Victoria Martin & Stephen Vincent, NOW Confirmed: A little bit about them & you can watch both Victoria & Stephen in our short video clip below:
Theatre credits include ‘Latin Fever’ (West End), ‘Simply Ballroom’ (UK, South Africa & Dubai), ‘Cheek to Cheek’ (West End, London), ‘Burn The Floor’ 2006 (Australia, China, and USA) and Burn The Floor 2010 (USA, Europe & Australia). He has toured with Giovanni Pernice for 2 years across UK and has also returned to Burn The Floor touring in 2019.
Stephen’s latest achievement is becoming a professional on Dancing with the Stars Ireland, reaching the final in 2022...
A little bit about Victoria
Belfast born, Victoria started Latin & Ballroom dancing from the age of 4. Her love for dancing has took her to study in England, Holland and Italy, resulting in prestigious awards throughout her career such as Amateur & Professional Rising Star Champions.
After 22 years she decided to retire from competitive dancing and found herself in the midst of television, she appeared on “Ballando con le stelle” (Italy’s Dancing with the Stars) through 2007-2012.
2014, saw Victoria finally join “Burn the Floor” something she had always dreamt of. Since then she has performed on Norweigan cruise lines as well as travelled the world with Burn The Floor’s touring company.
“Being part of Burn the Floor is not only an Honour, it has made me the dancer & woman I am today” - Victoria Martin
Lee & Dawn Perrot Firm MJ Favourites (Modern Jive World Champions on numerous occasions) also Teachers of Latin Ballroom for well over 20 years, and downright lovely, funny people. We are honoured they agreed to join this amazing line up for a 2nd year 🙏
Keith & Sam, will be your Main Modern Jive Teacher’s - Keith has 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 Modern Jive Showcase Sections 2018/19 & often tour the UK/Europe Teaching & Performing. Sam has trained in Latin Ballroom & has danced & worked with Keith for over a year now
Linz, the Queen of Choreography, WCS & Amazing Solo Fun Dances, keeping things fun and getting everyone into the groove - a firm favourite with ALL our dancers.
Shaun Davies (New to our Weekenders, but not to us) Teaching Modern Jive Shaun teaches in a relaxed & smooth way & will be teaching his style of Modern Jive. A member of the LeRoc Federation, partner at Wings Club Chester.
Jan C: After many years of dancing Ballet, Modern Lyrical and stage experience along with BBO, ISTD and RAD training (up to Advanced) at the Hammond School, Chester, then later Jan also became a Member of the NATD (National Association of Teachers of Dancing).
At least 1 other Teacher TBC
We always aim to provide amazing Modern Jive Weekenders, whilst also dipping your toe into dances such as Latin Ballroom, Argentine Tango, West Coast Swing, Blues, American Swing & Lindy Hop plus our now famous fun group dance and this weekender is no exception, see below.
6 Inspiring DJ’s presently Keith D, Shaun, Lindsay B. Ed P, Craig
EXTRA: We also have your favourite Dancing Masseuse Rob, Wellbeing specialist at Docherty Wellbeing. Don’t forget to book when you arrive, so he can fix & relax you, so you can get even more out of your weekend. Timings & Cost will be on our front desk.
1. Please give me everything, but a room! Full Weekender 2 Day, 3 Night Pass, £95pp. Availability: Leads or Leads & Followers with a Lead (Yes Followers must book on with a Lead).
2. Join us for our Freestyles BEST VALUE FOR MONEY (Open to All): £12pp per night - Fri & Sat. Just £10pp for Sunday
Friday & Saturday: 2 Rooms, usually 5 or 6+ DJ’s, 8pm - 2am Main Ballroom Modern Jive with all eras & genres played!
2nd Room 8.30 - 1am Min, Smooth Jive, West Coast & Argentine Tango to Fusion Dance to.
Sunday Tea Dance ALL Genre’s Played 8pm - 11pm Inc’s Complimentary water & parking.
3. Workshops Only:
Saturday: 2 Rooms, 11+ Workshops, 10.30 - 5.30pm Released nearer the time. £39pp per day. Availability: Leads or Leads & Followers with a lead (Yes Followers must book on with a Lead).
Sunday: 2 Rooms, 11+ Workshops, 10.30 - 5.30pm Released nearer the time. £39pp per day. Availability: Leads or Leads & Followers with a lead (Yes Followers must book on with a Lead).
Workshops will grow progressively throughout 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 of Latin Ballroom, Argentine Tango, West Coast Swing, Blues, Jango + a great favourite of our dancers, the Fun Group Dance (Dances vary from Weekender to weekender - See above for Ilkley).
Please Note: We do our best to Gender Balance, this will mean there will be times when we cannot accept any more Followers (this usually means ladies) 😢 We can still add you to our waiting list, just email & let us know what you’d like to join, ie full weekender or just Saturday night. We can then let you know if something comes available.
