THE TIMETABLE
The schedule is the heart of the festival. Each day of the festival you can create your own personal program. The highly qualified trainers will show you new figures and help you improve your technique. By dividing the workshops into different levels of difficulty, you can put together your own program to suit your individual training level. Beginner workshops in less known dances offer the perfect opportunity to get a taste of previously unknown dance styles. Registration for the individual workshops is not required - just decide spontaneously on site which of the offers you want to take advantage of.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a preliminary version. Initially, you will only see the workshops, the levels and on which days / at which times they are scheduled. Further details (trainers, language, etc.) will be added gradually.
Level
The workshops are divided into difficulty levels (levels).
- Beginner: Here simple basic steps and figures are shown. These workshops do not require any knowledge in the corresponding dances - but basic dance experience is an advantage.
- Level 1: Basic knowledge of the respective dance is available.
- Level 2: Knowledge of at least one year in the respective dance is available.
- Level 3: Many years of experience in the respective dance or even first tournament experience are available.
- Level 4: For trainers, competition couples B- / A- and S-Class and professionals as well as dance teachers. IMPORTANT: By popular request, we have increased the level of difficulty in Level 4 (Standard / Latin); in the technique units, almost no step sequences are practiced! It is also assumed that the basic figures from the books (e.g. Alex Moore and Walter Laird) can be danced fluently. If you do not meet these requirements, you can of course watch the workshops (as a passive spectator next to the dance floor) - but to join in, we ask that you attend a level 2 or 3 workshop.
Please note: The levels are recommendations and the transitions are sometimes fluid. The trainers have the instruction to basically stick to the levels indicated in the timetable.
Despite all the planning, it is not possible to determine in advance exactly which level is suitable and which is not. We therefore ask you to think in advance about which level is most likely to be suitable for you. For example, it does not make sense for dance school participants with little experience to choose level 3 purely out of interest. There would be a risk of getting in the way of the "dance flow" and not gaining much for yourself, as in-depth prior knowledge of figures and techniques is assumed to be fundamentally known here.