***Choose 6 Classes From Our 11 Offerings***
Mz. K • Polesque • 9-10:15 AM
Unleash your inner dancer while discovering new wonderful ways that your body moves while taking it all off with a POLE. This class will begin with a slow flowing warm up complete with hair flips, body rolls, hip circles and more. All levels welcome!
 
Babraham Lincoln • Rise and Grind  • 9-10:15 AM
 
Leah Marie • Chair-ology • 10:30-11:45 AM
Join Leah Marie for some sassy, spunky, sexy chair dance choreography in Chair-ology. Grab hold of your chair & let's DANCE! All levels welcome!
*Proper Dance Heels (not pole stilettos) are preferred & pants or leg warmers welcome!
 
Stormy Chance • Put Your Best Pastie Forward • 10:30-11:45 AM
 
Sade Symone • Twerkshop • 12:00-1:15 PM
All levels, shorts and knee pads strongly encouraged 
A bootyshaking, how-to and technique class that’ll start from the basics and end with a little choreo magic. This workshop will be focused on twerk technique and adding a little more booty and a lot more shake to your burlesque performance. Adding isolations, creative posing, and musicality to enhance and build excitement on stage. Come make cardio sexy again! What to wear/bring: Shorts or leggings that let the booty jiggle, or a costume piece that accentuates the booty. Knee Pads are recommended. Leg warmers and heels are optional. All-Levels Welcome! 
 
Alotta Boutté • Must be Jelly ‘Cuz Jam Don’t Shake Like That • 12:00-1:15 PM
This class is designed to help you get into your skin and work with some of the wonderful ways in which it moves.  We will explore what it's like to be in your body, learn how it moves and how to radiate on stage. Funny, educational, and good for many levels of movers, this class will teach you how to expand your presence and take up space while making you laugh, shimmy, shake, bump, grind, and have a damn good time.  This class will require space, preferably a dance space.  People will need to wear clothing suitable for a dance class. Heels are welcome, but not required.
 
Jocquese “SirJoQ” Whitfield • Vogue & Tone • 1:30-2:45 PM
Vogue is characterized by model-like poses, inspired by Vogue Magazine, integrated with angular, linear and rigid arm, leg and body movements. The style of dance arose from Harlem ballrooms in the early 1930s. This dance style was originally called “performance” and evolved into the more intricate and illusory form that is now called “vogue-ing”. There are six elements of Vogue-ing: hands, spins, catwalk, duck walk, dips and floor performance. Not only will you learn the history of Vogue, but you will receive a workout. Jocquese will break down each element of vogue, each has specific movements that will strengthen and tone different parts of the body.
**All Levels ** Students should wear comfy clothes and shoes, and bring a water bottle.
 
Sydni Deveraux • Intro to Burlesque Movement • 1:30-2:45 PM
Like other forms of dance, burlesque has a vocabulary!  Start at the beginning learning the fundamentals in burlesque movement: the bump, grind, shimmy, drags and basic walking in heels. Come ready to play. Bring heels. No previous experience with burlesque, dancing or performing required! 
 
Johnny Nuriel • HOLDING SPACE • 3:00-4:15 PM
Holding space is an essential element in the performing arts. How does one successfully command an entire audience? fill an entire stage? We all have light and confidence within us, but sometimes we don't feel we have access to this power... or we shrink ourselves to make ourselves smaller... This workshop is all about being the biggest and brightest version of yourself (on/off stage) This ALL LEVELS class will explore posture, intention, musicality, and eye contact. Participants will focus on specific techniques geared towards enrapturing and holding the attention of the audience through the use of Holding Space.
 
Isaiah Esquire • Pop it in Pumps! • 4:30-5:45 PM
Pop It in Pumps features Isaiah's prowess as a stage performer, Mentor, and motivator. Dancing in heels and the art of booty manipulation are specialty skills he has been teaching for over nine years to all genders and the genderless alike. Students will receive not only Training in the skills mentioned above but also the tools needed to feel powerful, sexy, and confident in their own special way. Werk those pumps!
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Act Review 6-9P
Are you ready to take your act to the next level? Engaging in meaningful feedback practices can be exactly what it takes to level up in the industry. Bringing objective eyes into your process has the ability to catch continuity issues or simply enhance your strengths that you can't quite even see yet! Bring an act you've been developing that is in a stage of completion (1/2 to fully complete- has costume pieces etc) and perform it in front of a panel of experienced mentors who are ready to give you feedback and notes. 
 
You'll have 25 minutes from start to finish with your time. Introduce yourself to your panel, share a bit about what stage the act is in and then perform it in its entirety to get notes on movement, costuming, presence, mapping and more.
 
Perform as if you are in a full audience! After your act is complete, the panel will very briefly discuss your act while you grab a quick drink of water and a robe and then we will chat with you about our notes, as well as hand over our written notes to you. 
 
You will need to send your music by April 19 at 12pm appropriately titled with your name ie: “Linkin Bio- summertime blues” to 231eventproductions@gmail.com and we will follow up with your designated Review Time Slot.
 
Arrive at least 45 minutes before your slotted time to get ready to perform in your makeup/costume. There is a green room for all BALC act review participants to get ready. Bring your phone to record your act if you'd like- we will have a tripod for you to place your phone into. 
 
Our panel consists of multiple award winners, teachers, producers and touring international performers:
Sydni Deveraux, RedBone, Isaiah Esquire, Johnny Nuriel, Alotta Boutté and Banbury Cross