Intensive Workshops with Hongsie
Sat, 16 Nov
|Meneer de Wit, Centrum voor Kunst
Our head teacher Hongsie is giving special intensive workshops to boost your forró skills!
Time & Location
16 Nov 2024, 14:00 – 18:00
Meneer de Wit, Centrum voor Kunst, Baarsjesweg 202, 1057 HS Amsterdam, Netherlands
About the event
Sadly Hongsie is leaving Amsterdam at the end of this year - but! before she leaves she will try to give us as much knowledge on some of her favorite topics and topics she thinks are most important for the best forró dances. For this she will give four special intensive workshops 🔥🔥🔥
ℹ️ Information:
No basic steps will be explained in any of these workshops (first time dancers, check out our beginner classes).
All workshops are mixed level from improvers to advanced.
Even if some topics are more fundamental than others, each workshop will have tips, tricks and good to knows for each level.
The workshops are each 2 hours long.
If you do more than two workshops, apply the below coupon codes (BF students and non Bora Forró students) for a multiple workshop discount.
❗️ DISCOUNT CODES FOR MULTIPLE WORKSHOPS ❗️
2 Workshops -4€: hongsie2workshops
3 Workshops -8€: hongsie3workshops
4 Workshops -12€: hongsie4workshops
Apply these codes at the checkout.
👣 WORKSHOPS - more info about the workshops below at the ticket selection
🗓️ Saturday November 16
⏰ 14:00-16:00 - Stand by me: body, balance, breath
⏰ 16:00-18:00 - Moving by ear: musicality & improvisation
🗓️ Saturday December 7
⏰ 14:00-16:00 - Should I stay or should I go: spatial awareness & body projection
⏰ 16:00-18:00 - Forró and the six energies: deep work on the six energies in dance
❗️Make sure you arrive 15 minutes earlier than the workshop beginning time.
👤 About Hongsie:
Hongsie is the founder of and teacher at Bora Forró. As a follower and leader, she understands techniques and movements from both sides, which is not only creating a memorable dance experience but also helping her greatly as a teacher. In her classes she aims for easy to understand instructions with fun metaphors. Hongsie is half German and half Native American. Because of her Native American heritage, music and dance has been part of her life since she was born. This transferred into her musicality in forró which is also what people remember the most when dancing with her (leading or following).
She started dancing forró in Cambridge, UK, at the end of 2015 and started co-teaching with Dedé Teles from Let's Forró in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2016, where they exchanged their knowledge as follower and leader. In the same year, she moved to Edinburgh, UK, where she started teaching forró herself with Bora Forró. 2017 she moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is growing the Bora Forró community in Amsterdam there with a team, supporters and volunteers.