Christmas party at The Corn Exchange, St Ives, Nr Cambridge Monday 18th December

It's our Christmas party night Info on the night. Doors open at 7:30pm with dancing till 8:00pm, we will be having a 1 hr FUN class with our normal warm-up with Dawn and Gennaro and the team. We will be having a shared table to keep in the traditions of Christmas. This will be our last class night for 2023 and will be back on the 8th Jan 2024. • After the classes we will be running our normal expressive freestyle till the end of the evening which ends at 11:00pm • Illumination Dance brings a different concept to dance for St Ives, Nr Cambridge area with this freestyle class night held on Monday nights. • We also run regular freestyles. St Albans & Cambridge areas with our Illumination (Light) Expressive Freestyle. • We aim to give our dancers a range of music, of a variety of genres and tempos, which teases out that more expressive dancer that is deep inside all of us. You could be someone, at any stage of your dancing, who is no longer satisfied dancing with the mainstream music you hear regularly in modern jive freestyles. • You might want to fuse your modern jive with other styles, such as WCS, Tango, and Blues, letting you vary your mood throughout the evening. • You may be looking for music that is a little more chilled, or perhaps more lyrical or expressive, giving you the backdrop to dance more ‘musically’ to what you hear. • You could even just be hoping to finish a dance and be able to say to your partner “Wow I didn’t know I could dance like that”. Quote from “Elliot Manley” In conclusion “Modern Blues” music consists mainly of gentle ballads and Modern Blues dance is a body-led form that has evolved from slow modern jive # while “Expressive” music can be big and dramatic with strong changes of pace and dynamics and the dances that go with it vary between intimate hold with tiny, subtle movements and big gestures where the dancers connect at a distance. The key difference is that Expressive dances tell a story. But “modern blues”, “expressive” and other dance styles can be smoothly blended if both partners understand the dance styles. • If any of these descriptions sound close to what you’ve thought to yourself or said to others, then Illumination Dance is the place for you and your friends to come and dance. At our events, you’ll find dancers of all levels of experience and ability, who share a common wish to express themselves by dancing to music that is always interesting and occasionally challenging. Address: The Corn Exchange, The Pavement, St Ives, Cambridgeshire. PE27 5AD Class Night format: • Doors open at 7.30 pm • Class: 8:00pm – 9:00pm • FREE Local parking • Freestyle 9:00pm – 10:45pm • Door price £10 • Full insurance • FREE Tea & Coffee all night. • NO bar. Bring your drinks. Please note that we want everyone to have fun in their dance, and dancers whose taste in music leans towards what you might find at a ‘regular’ MJ night, based on up-tempo music with a more metronomic beat, might not find what they are comfortable with at Illumination Dance freestyles.