Avalon Sodal Hall

Join us on Sunday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Avalon in Sodal Hall. Teaching from 7 to 8 p.m., Open Dance/Requests from 8 to 10 p.m. Cost: $6 for the evening, first visit is free. All levels welcome and no partner required!

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The weekly Monday Night Scandinavian Dance continues in the new year. Learn Scandinavian couple dancing (polskas and pols). We teach the first hour, followed by open dancing, usually with live music. No partner needed, just low-friction, hard-soled shoes so that you will be able to pivot (spin) on the beautiful Avalon floors. Pivoting easily and frequently is necessary for fast-turning Polska and Pols dances. These classes build skills from week to week so one should try and attend regularly. Come…

Salsa, Level 1, "Intro to Salsa" This class will be taught at the introductory level. No previous dance experience at all is required! This is a four-week course, which runs on four consecutive Tuesdays. Feel free to join in on the second week, and if you have danced a little bit before, you can join in on any week! We will explain all of the basic and important elements of salsa dancing. After this class you will be prepared to…

Intro to Intermediate Salsa Dancing In this class, you will learn all of the fundamental (but important!) elements that will help take your salsa dancing to the next level (intermediate). This class is intended for people who have successfully completed at least two months of salsa, or for people who have been dancing for several months, but who haven't had much formal instruction and want to really learn the key techniques for dancing at the intermediate level. We will cover:…

Intermediate Salsa Before enrolling in this class, you should have successfully completed Salsa, Levels I,II, III, and IV or be comfortable executing all the basic combinations in salsa dancing. This class should be normally taken at least about six times before advancing to Level V. Each month this class will be different, varying in content and presentation. We will cover: Double Right Turn (presented about once every three months) Copa and variations (presented about once every three months) Fancy Combinations…

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Social Scandinavian dancing, mostly to live music. The evening is a blend of gammaldans (waltz, hambo, schottis....) and bygdedans (polskas and springars). Requests are honored if at all possible. Partners are not necessary, but we strongly recommend wearing hard-soled shoes, as it makes the dances both easier and more fun. There is no dance during the summer months, June, July, and August.

Move The Earth~ a sensual ecstatic dance for women-identified people with Audrey Steele LPCC, R-DMT The emphasis of this class is on developing a healthy and loving relationship with Self. Each class is a journey diving into, and deeply exploring, erotic expression through dance. We practice listening to our body, and its desires. We learn its language. Through this practice we reprogram our limiting thought and action patterns into more empowered ways of being. This class is about repossessing our…