Blossom Blues
Zurich, Switzerland. May 13th - 16th
**Special Promotion! for EBX Registrants** www.blossomblues.com
If you are going to both Blossom Blues 2016 (2 weeks before in Switzerland) and European Blues Experience 2016, you will get a 20 Francs refund!! send an email after you've signed up for both events to [email protected] and they'll refund you the amount! woop!
If you are going to both Blossom Blues 2016 (2 weeks before in Switzerland) and European Blues Experience 2016, you will get a 20 Francs refund!! send an email after you've signed up for both events to [email protected] and they'll refund you the amount! woop!
European Recess Gender Bender
90 minutes north of Barcelona
May 20th - 22nd, 2016
Map of Gender Bender Event Location
Venue Website: Mas Frances, A Cooperative dedicated
to ecological and social transformation.
Vision Statement: At the Gender Bender Recess we are working to create safer spaces within our dance community for all peoples, bodies, genders, and sexualities.
The Setting: All meals will be provided and communal. Workshops all day, dancing all night. Prepare for an inspiringly beautiful venue, with inspired, deep conversation about real issues. And the venue is a Cooperative dedicated to ecological and social transformation.
Curriculum Overview : The curriculum is designed to both inspire and challenge every participant. We will actively be working on the major projects we identify in our own communities, as well as the major projects that we identify in ourselves. This is a place to come and be humble, to learn, and to be a part of something both difficult and very special. We will spend portions of the weekend working on dancing our non-dominant dance role as well as talking about and workshopping some of the hardest hitting issues in the community. The event will have be one cohesive curriculum that all participants will move through together, combining dance, activism, discussion, and play. One of our main goals with this event is to not only help improve skills of people dancing outside of their primary role, but to do the work necessary to create a community that allows people to safely dance outside of their primary role, and as a whole to do the work to improve the overall safety and empowerment of our community.
Everyone will be take together through a single curriculum involving the following topics.
Venue Website: Mas Frances, A Cooperative dedicated
to ecological and social transformation.
Vision Statement: At the Gender Bender Recess we are working to create safer spaces within our dance community for all peoples, bodies, genders, and sexualities.
The Setting: All meals will be provided and communal. Workshops all day, dancing all night. Prepare for an inspiringly beautiful venue, with inspired, deep conversation about real issues. And the venue is a Cooperative dedicated to ecological and social transformation.
Curriculum Overview : The curriculum is designed to both inspire and challenge every participant. We will actively be working on the major projects we identify in our own communities, as well as the major projects that we identify in ourselves. This is a place to come and be humble, to learn, and to be a part of something both difficult and very special. We will spend portions of the weekend working on dancing our non-dominant dance role as well as talking about and workshopping some of the hardest hitting issues in the community. The event will have be one cohesive curriculum that all participants will move through together, combining dance, activism, discussion, and play. One of our main goals with this event is to not only help improve skills of people dancing outside of their primary role, but to do the work necessary to create a community that allows people to safely dance outside of their primary role, and as a whole to do the work to improve the overall safety and empowerment of our community.
Everyone will be take together through a single curriculum involving the following topics.
- Dance Workshops: Classes covering a variety of topics including: learning your non-dominant role, dancing switch, role fluid partner dancing, and classes addressing how gender is expressed by or projected onto movement.
- Activist Workshops: Interactive workshops and discussions addressing larger cultural and community issues such as gender assumptions, homophobia, sexism, consent, abelism, ageism, and the sexualization of dance to name a few.
- Facilitated Discussions: Focused conversations designed to create constructive and safe spaces to share personal experiences, discuss issues we see in our community, and construct action plans to bring home after the event.
The Old World Alt-Blues Recess
1 hour north of Milan, Italy
June 9th - 13th, 2016
Recess has been producing progressive, boundary pushing, culture creating events in the American partner dancing scene over the past 9 years. This is Recess' third year throwing events in Europe and serves as a small, intimate, and playful testing ground for the what we want our dance community to be. Kind of like a fun-filled, fantasy-driven weekend... or a lived-in premonition of what we want the future to be!
We will spend three days and four nights dancing, eating, camping, and making merry in foothills of the Italian Alps, in Bergamo, Italy, 1 hour north of Milano, Italy. Our setting is a stunning 18th century Italian mansion surrounded by large gardens and vineyards. Its beautifully plastered walls and network of outbuildings and gardens will be our dance halls; its sprawling grounds and industrial kitchen our house and dining room. There are 30 beds for an extra cost, otherwise camping is provided with the purchasing of an event ticket.What is a Recess?A Recess event is a break from constraints: a recess from traditional obligations, a recess from the uninspiring, a recess from boundaries (in music, movement, conventional norms, and expression), a recess from the creative-voids of the every day. We call it Alt. (short for Alternative) because that's what we are, that's the music we prefer, that's the experience we strive to create--something outside of the ordinary. We call it Blues because that's who we are, we are Blues dancers and a part of the larger Blues community. We dance with the creative brilliance of Blues connection, technique, and musicality, often to Blues music. . . and often to something else. We believe in an inclusive and expansively nonrestrictive idea of what the Blues community "IS" and what it can become. We believe in dance as a living, ever-evolving cultural movement: borne out of the time-honored traditions of the past and inspired by the sounds, movements, styles, rhythms, and progressive social revelations of today. We are a community of dancers; we are the Recess Family.
Learn More here about the Recess Mission and Vision HERE!
We will spend three days and four nights dancing, eating, camping, and making merry in foothills of the Italian Alps, in Bergamo, Italy, 1 hour north of Milano, Italy. Our setting is a stunning 18th century Italian mansion surrounded by large gardens and vineyards. Its beautifully plastered walls and network of outbuildings and gardens will be our dance halls; its sprawling grounds and industrial kitchen our house and dining room. There are 30 beds for an extra cost, otherwise camping is provided with the purchasing of an event ticket.What is a Recess?A Recess event is a break from constraints: a recess from traditional obligations, a recess from the uninspiring, a recess from boundaries (in music, movement, conventional norms, and expression), a recess from the creative-voids of the every day. We call it Alt. (short for Alternative) because that's what we are, that's the music we prefer, that's the experience we strive to create--something outside of the ordinary. We call it Blues because that's who we are, we are Blues dancers and a part of the larger Blues community. We dance with the creative brilliance of Blues connection, technique, and musicality, often to Blues music. . . and often to something else. We believe in an inclusive and expansively nonrestrictive idea of what the Blues community "IS" and what it can become. We believe in dance as a living, ever-evolving cultural movement: borne out of the time-honored traditions of the past and inspired by the sounds, movements, styles, rhythms, and progressive social revelations of today. We are a community of dancers; we are the Recess Family.
Learn More here about the Recess Mission and Vision HERE!
