The Get Down – Blues Dance Workshop Weekend

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nsWe love dancing the blues, and we want to party with you. Join us for the inaugural weekend of The Get Down!
Colorado’s blues dancing scene has been a hub in the country where East and West coast meet for huge parties, competition show downs, and amazing social dancing to live+DJd blues tunes — this invite goes far and wide to our blues dancing friends across the country (and the globe 👀) to come *get down* in CO with us this summer.
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IMPORTANT DATES:
April 3-5 | FLASH SALE
June 23 | Hotel Block Reservation Cut-off
June 30 | Financial Aid and Volunteer Application Deadline
July 6 | Early Bird Pricing ENDS
July 23 | Pre-party at Shimmy Shakin’ Blues
July 24-26 | THE GET DOWN
~ July 24 Mile High Blues Farewell Party ~
July 25 | Afterparty at Mojo Mondays
Please visit our website for full event details and registration.
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FRIDAY NIGHT PARTY: MILE HIGH BLUES FAREWELL
BIG NEWS: The Get Down will be hosting the Mile High Blues Farewell Party for our Friday evening event.
Mile High has been a hugely impactful event in the Colorado Blues dancing community for over 15 years. Help us celebrate the close to this momentous chapter in Colorado’s Blues dance history.
Live music with Rex Peoples & XFactr
Visit milehighblues.com for more info on the farewell!
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SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY: THE SHINDIG
Show up with your funky formal fits, your grooviest moves, and join us for the biggest blowout of the weekend.
This will be our DJ feature evening – we’ll be showing off our favorite DJ’s from across the country, and taking breaks for The Throwdown and The Mixer competitions.
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Sunday night we’ll be winding down the weekend in our best juke joint vibe. Take an outfit hint from Sinners (the movie) and we’ll see you at the juke.
Live music by Nic Clark and his band!

Trauma-Informed Movement Workshop

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If you have struggled to maintain a positive relationship with exercise in the past, or have sustained an injury and find yourself hesitant or anxious to re-engage with exercise, this workshop is for you. Come learn the systems at work in self-protection, their interplay, and how we can work within them to increase our safety, lessen our anxiety and internal resistance, and improve our overall relationship with struggle and discomfort without overwhelming our bodies or minds. To ensure a positive experience, space is limited – please e-mail to reserve your spot.

$65 until 02/27, or $80 at the door

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Posture Workshop

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How much does your posture say about you? Your confidence and presence, your strength and mobility? Our spines, the literal backbone of all our movement possibilities, do not get nearly enough love in the modern-day life most of us lead. Come learn just how much this central bone column affects our every movement. Learn to care for and respect your spine, and be wowed by how much it will give back to you when properly supported. Walk-ins are accepted but space is limited – please email ahead of time to ensure your spot!

$65 until 02/20, or $80 at the door

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Romantic Partner Dancing

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The perfect setting to impress your Valentine! Come set the mood, work up an appetite, and leave wanting more. Made for absolute beginner-intermediate partner dancers, and relationships of all maturities. Admission price covers 2 attendees. Walk-ins are accepted but space is limited – please e-mail to ensure your spot!

$80 for two until 02/13, or $100 for two at the door

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Gait Workshop

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Learn to walk! With balance, strength, confidence, and grace, and without pain. Come learn the gait cycle, the chains of muscles involved with a healthy gait, identify your personal missing links, and strengthen them, one step at a time. Space is limited – please e-mail to ensure your spot!

$65 until 02/06, or $80 at the door

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Explore Your Asana

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Explore the possibilities of asana modification from an anatomical perspective. Whether you are a beginner to yoga or a lifelong practicer, this workshop is designed to teach you to adjust your movements safely and effectively for body type, injury/pain, and area of focus. We will start from the classic anatomical position, observe what tradition tells us our asana postures should be, and then explore what adjustments might make the position more comfortable for us and our unique bodies, in all that they are experiencing in that moment. We want you to empower you with knowledge such that when you leave this class, you can enter a group yoga class and be able to modify your position to amplify your personal practice, instead of relying on generalized instructor cues that may or may not benefit you specifically.

$60 until 01/30, or $75 at the door

Email with interest: the.body.phonics@gmail.com

 

Mile High Blues Takeaways Practica with Lila and Dillon

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Lila Faria and Dillon Arevalo: Artists in Residence June 23-30, 2025

MHB Takeaways Practica – Register HERE
This practica will be a unique deep-dive session where Lila and Dillon guide you through concepts, moments, and inspiration they took from the Mile High Blues workshops. It’s a chance to revisit material you loved, unpack anything you didn’t quite have time to process, and explore it with fresh insight and guidance.

After the Practica, join us at The Rose’s home for a Cookout (address will be shared separately).

This Practica will be tailored for an Intermediate+ Skill Level. If you’re not sure if this workshop is a good fit for your skill level, please reach out to us at thetriplestep@gmail.com.

If you are unable to attend the Practia, but would still like to get some instructional time with Lila and Dillon during their Residency, keep reading!

Additional Offerings

  • Private and Small Group Lessons
    Click to See Available Lesson Times in LONGMONT and in DENVER
  • Teaching the Beginner Lesson and Mini Private Lessons at The Triplestep’s Inaugural Dance, June 30 at Zero Hour Cafe

About Lila and Dillon
Lila and Dillon have been dancing Blues for a collective 25 years, and other styles of partner dance for over 35. They both carry education degrees from prestigious universities, have taught dance as a pair across the West Coast from Washington to California, and continue their training as active members of the larger global Blues dance community to this day. Together, they have studied with some of the most prominent blues dance instructors across the U.S. As a teaching pair they focus on intertwining connection, partnership, and playfulness with the rich and complicated history of Blues dance.

Individually, they each have experience instructing both locally and nationally. Dillon has taught dance and choreographed performances for high schools, college campuses, and dance communities across both coasts in the U.S. Lila has been recognized on a global scale, judging national-level competitions and teaching internationally in cities like Philadelphia (USA), Vancouver (Canada), London (UK) and Lisbon (Portugal). They are excited to bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to your scene!

Cover Photo Credit to Rachel Bliven
@rachelblivenphotography on Instagram