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Dance Classes at WICA

  • Zech Hall 565 Camano Ave Langley, WA, 98260 United States (map)

Dance Classes at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
Zech Hall - 565 Camano Ave., Langley
5 Sundays: November 9 – December 7
with Walter Dill & Daughter, Celina

Swing 1: Single-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:30 - 6:30pm
East Coast Swing is the best place to start learning partner dance and is probably the most useful and fun dance in our culture. This class will focus on faster Swing music. There is an immense variety of music that inspires Swing dancing – Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Pop, Western, and even Big Band! Watch our YouTube video for Single-time Swing. No prerequisite

Nightclub Two-step (Modern Foxtrot) . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6:45 - 7:45pm
Danced to many forms of music, our Nightclub Two-step is a stream-lined version of Foxtrot and could be called Waltz in 4/4 time. We traveled in Cuba (when Celina was 5) and discovered that the regional style of Salsa in Pinar del Rio is the same as our Nightclub Two-step. In other words, this is a very flexible and useful dance style. Watch our YouTube video for Nightclub Two-step.
Prerequisite: dance experience.

Registration: $60/person for a 5-week class series; $45 for 18 & under. $30 for 12 & under with paying adult. Pay online at www.EveryoneCanDance.com or make checks to: WALTER DILL. Mail to or drop off at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Ave, Langley, WA 98260. Pre-registration encouraged. More info: 360-301-4755, walter@everyonecandance.com

Earlier Event: December 5
A Christmas Story
Later Event: December 21
A Bluegrass Christmas with Weatherside Whiskey Band

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.