A event held at The Elmgrove Centre on Saturday 24th February. The event starts at 19:00.
Blue Mondays are proud to present an evening of blues dancing to the tunes of Kosta Burgess!
Kosta absolutely brought the house down when he played at our last weekend event, and we’re completely thrilled that he’s coming back to join us for a Saturday evening social. He’s an acoustic blues and folk musician from Bristol, drawing inspiration from Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins and early Bob Dylan. If you haven’t heard Kosta play before, you are in for a treat!
Between Kosta's sets, we’ll be hearing a variety of blues tunes from some of our community’s brilliant DJs.
Bring your best dance shoes, your fishtails and your four corners, your jukin’ hips and ballroomin’ feet - we can't wait to dance the night away with you.
New to blues dance? Great! We’ll be kicking things off with a taster class so you can learn the basics.
Not a dancer? Also great! We’d love to have you - you’re welcome to come and watch Kosta do his thing (with bonus live dance accompaniment!)
THE DETAILS
Our venue for the evening is the small hall at The Elmgrove Centre: https://g.co/kgs/29xX1LU
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please go up the path that is on the left of the main entrance, and the wheelchair accessible door will be on your right.
This event is BYO; please bring your own drinks and cups. There will be a water tap available for refills, but no glasses/cups, so please bring your own water bottle.
Doors open at 6.45pm, for the taster class to begin at 7pm.
TIMINGS
7pm - 8pm: blues dance taster class
8pm - 11pm: social dancing to live and DJ’d music
BLUE MONDAYS
We're a community of dancers in Bristol who meet every Monday for a blues dance class followed by a couple of hours of social dancing. Blues is a great way to get into partner dancing - with a gentle learning curve and degendered teaching, we make sure there is space for everyone. With a focus on connection and improvisation over very complex sequences of steps, we guarantee that by the end of your first session you'll be grooving to some great tunes on the social floor!
You can see what we're up to on Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/bluemondaybristol
... and Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/bluemondaysbristol/
Don't know what blues dancing is? Well, here's a great intro video by our friends in Paris!
youtu.be/rpVoCEixMSo
And some extra snippets, for inspiration!
youtu.be/xYtf5Tfdi_w
youtu.be/2A-LSoI0pmY
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
We want everyone to be able to come and dance with us, regardless of finances. That's why we run on a full sliding scale. Feeling flush? Chip in a little extra. Skint? Cool, come dance with us anyway - we have low income and pay-what-you-can options available, with no minimum.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Kosta absolutely brought the house down when he played at our last weekend event, and we’re completely thrilled that he’s coming back to join us for a Saturday evening social. He’s an acoustic blues and folk musician from Bristol, drawing inspiration from Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins and early Bob Dylan. If you haven’t heard Kosta play before, you are in for a treat!
Between Kosta's sets, we’ll be hearing a variety of blues tunes from some of our community’s brilliant DJs.
Bring your best dance shoes, your fishtails and your four corners, your jukin’ hips and ballroomin’ feet - we can't wait to dance the night away with you.
New to blues dance? Great! We’ll be kicking things off with a taster class so you can learn the basics.
Not a dancer? Also great! We’d love to have you - you’re welcome to come and watch Kosta do his thing (with bonus live dance accompaniment!)
THE DETAILS
Our venue for the evening is the small hall at The Elmgrove Centre: https://g.co/kgs/29xX1LU
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Please go up the path that is on the left of the main entrance, and the wheelchair accessible door will be on your right.
This event is BYO; please bring your own drinks and cups. There will be a water tap available for refills, but no glasses/cups, so please bring your own water bottle.
Doors open at 6.45pm, for the taster class to begin at 7pm.
TIMINGS
7pm - 8pm: blues dance taster class
8pm - 11pm: social dancing to live and DJ’d music
BLUE MONDAYS
We're a community of dancers in Bristol who meet every Monday for a blues dance class followed by a couple of hours of social dancing. Blues is a great way to get into partner dancing - with a gentle learning curve and degendered teaching, we make sure there is space for everyone. With a focus on connection and improvisation over very complex sequences of steps, we guarantee that by the end of your first session you'll be grooving to some great tunes on the social floor!
You can see what we're up to on Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/bluemondaybristol
... and Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/bluemondaysbristol/
Don't know what blues dancing is? Well, here's a great intro video by our friends in Paris!
youtu.be/rpVoCEixMSo
And some extra snippets, for inspiration!
youtu.be/xYtf5Tfdi_w
youtu.be/2A-LSoI0pmY
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
We want everyone to be able to come and dance with us, regardless of finances. That's why we run on a full sliding scale. Feeling flush? Chip in a little extra. Skint? Cool, come dance with us anyway - we have low income and pay-what-you-can options available, with no minimum.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
