This special San Francisco date just added to Ryan’s North American Tour!!
THIS SATURDAY, JULY 29TH, 2017
CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION AND DISCOUNTED PRICE!
9:45am Check in
10am – 12:30pm Fundamental Artistry of a True Connection
1:30pm – 4:00pm Unique Steps and Variations
Cost: Register online before Saturday for discounted price of $55
At door $60 cash only.
Suitable for all levels.
Location: Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110. Free street parking.
Click here for directions.
Comfortable clothing with leather-soled shoes recommended (we’ll be dancing on a wooden floor).
Questions?
Please contact co-hosts Jeremy Sutton (415-626-3971) or Peggy Gyulai (215-681-9890).
See Facebook event for some more video links showing Ryan in action
I encourage all Bay Area Lindy Hoppers to take advantage of this extraordinarily rare opportunity to polish your dance craft with British Lindy Hop Master, Ryan Francois, creator of the Jitterbug Stroll. I’ve known Ryan since the late 1990s and can attest that his dancing and teaching are consistently about elegance, economy of movement, practicality and the artistry of lead and follow. This workshop will provide you with an expanded and enriched Lindy Hop lead-follow vocabulary that will invigorate your dance experience! Ryan’s demo partner for this workshop will be Rebecca Shannon.
For those of you who are not familiar with Ryan, he is one of the great Lindy Hop revivalists from the 1980’s who was mentored and trained by some of the legends of Savoy Lindy Hop including Frankie Manning. You can get a sense of his amazing dance style from seeing this video of Ryan dancing to Mack The Knife with former partner Jenny. He has been teaching, competing, performing and choreographing for many years and his credits include Hollywood movies including “Swing Kids”, “Malcolm X” and “Idlewild”, the hit Broadway show “Swing!”, the incredible YouTube hit music video “Slow Club Two Cousins” (and another version shown here and here) and the hit TV shows “Strictly Come Dancing”, “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Britain’s Got Talent”. He starred as Frankie Manning at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, in the stunning re-creation of the 1941 Helzapoppin’ dance sequence we saw at Frankie 95.
Ryan with Lindy Hop Pioneer and Ambassador Frankie Manning
For some interesting historical background on Lindy Hop swing dancing, see Ryan’s fascinating TEDxAlbertopolis presentation “Planet swing — the real Harlem Globetrotters”.