Step-A-Tune Dance Weekend

Featuring Becky Hill, Ben Nelson, Sharon Leahy and Rick Good
With Special Musical Performers Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms

The Handmade Music School presents Step-a-tune Dance Weekend is a rare chance for intermediate / advanced cloggers and flatfoot dancers to dig into their percussive dance practice. This weekend offers 10 plus hours of percussive dance instruction with Becky Hill & Ben Nelson, and Sharon Leahy & Rick Good. Throughout the weekend we will engage in drills that build technical facility and expand musicality, explore improvisation, discuss pedagogical approaches, try on choreography, and much more! In addition to workshops students will get the chance to attend the Floyd Friday Night Jamboree, dance the night away at a square dance, and experience the beauty of Southwest Virginia. Scholarships are available!

The workshop will take place at the Floyd EcoVillage and the Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Virginia. The EcoVillage features beautiful timber-framed buildings on 75 private acres just a few miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway and the charming town center of Floyd. The EcoVillage hosts a performance space with a great wooden dance floor, stage and sound system for concerts and dances, and a variety of teaching spaces. Lodging at the EcoVillage is available for workshop participants.

Included in this weekend is a special performance and dance set on Saturday, November 9 with Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms at the Floyd Country Store.

$325 for the weekend.