Workshops
What would a Bal Folk festival be without its workshops? Quite boring we thought and reserved two halls from the second day onward. Workshops will be from 12 am to 3:30 pm. Time to wake up, have breakfast and learn! :-) In 2023 lovely people were willing to share their knowledge. We thank Maik, Ralf, Selma, Claire, Gabriel, Indigo, Noemi, Gina, Raven, Katia, Debora, Maja, Marion, Steve, Anouk, Owen, Ina and Tomas. Without your effort and your contribution our previous New Year's Eve festival would have not been the same! :-)
We are happy to invite you to run a workshop and to enrich our festival program. If this sounds good to you, please contact us via: info@tanzvolk-leipzig.de
The workshop schedule is still being worked on.
27 december
18 o'clock
- Bal Folk Beginners' workshop – with Maik
Here we are, dancing Bal Folk, but wait a minute, how does that actually work?
Maik's beginners' workshop is all about losing your fear of the dance floor. "Step - breath - broom stroke" True to Beppo the street sweeper's motto, we approach central dances such as Scottish, Valse, possibly Mazurka and Bourrée step by step. The main focus is on couple dances, because chain and circle dances on the dance floor are so easy to get carried away with (all you have to do is smile or laugh in a friendly way and nobody will look at your feet).
And as I said, don't worry, there are always very simple versions of the dances that should increase your chances of survival at the evening bal. So let's go, let's go, into the infinite expanses of the Bal Folk universe...
(german)
