Holiday Dance Camps & Battle time!!

Hi everyone,

So today the sun is shining and felt like a good time to tell you all about the camps which i will be running during Easter and also the month of July.

These will consist of a dance and creative camp for kids 5+ years, involving street dance, games, crafts, home-baking, singing and lots more fun things. It will be held in a local hall in Dumbarton (tbc). If interest is high we can even get some external instructors to teach breaking (break dance) and learn some cool moves!

At the end of each week (Fri at 2.15pm) we will do a short demonstration of some of the pieces we have created over the week for parents/grannies/aunts/uncles/brothers/sisters etc. This will be £1.50/ticket which will go into materials/costumes.

EASTER CAMP (5 days)
w/c 7th April 
10am-3pm

Cost = £10/day or £40 for full week (EARLY BIRD RATE*)

SUMMER CAMP (4 weeks)
w/c 30th Jun, 7th/14th/21st July
10am-3pm

Cost = £10/day or £40/1 full week or £160/4 weeks (EARLY BIRD RATE*)

*The above costs are EARLY BIRD rates for booking & payment before 11th March (Easter Camps) and June 3rd (Summer camps). Thereafter costs will be £12.50/day or £50/week or £200/4 weeks.

Please register your interest by calling Nadia on 0788 058 6113 or email - natmouni.teacher@gmail.com
N.B. We would require between 10-15 children attending each day therefore a waiting list will be in place.

In other news, on Saturday i went along to a streetdance battle with some of the girls from the adult class. These things don't come along too often in Glasgow (well not as often as i would like!) so it's good to take advantage and support the hip-hop scene. It was held in a new dance space called "The Centre" in Govan, which has recently opened as a training area and will hold weekly sessions with some great dance intructors. It's only £4/week membership and you get access to all class and training space so a pretty good deal if you ask me. I'm definitely going to be taking advantage and going along to some classes on a Wednesday - waacking and house to be specific.

Anyway back to the battle! I hadn't actually planned on entering as it seemed to be just young kids participating in the bboy battles, however Shelltoe Mel came along and talked me into it "if you go in, i'll go in" style. So of course i couldn't say no to that! Two things pushed me, mainly the fact that there was no one representing funkstyles - and we wanted the younger kids to see where the foundations of streetdance come from by demonstrating some popping and locking. The other reason being the lack of females, not sure why but there were only 3 of us in the battle despite the fact there were plenty of female dancers observing. 

I got through the first round as i ended up battling a young boy who must have been about 8 at the most? He was really good, and hit out with some MJ moves which were impressive. The song was "Lose Control" by Missy E so quite a good one for popping. 

ROUND 1 VIDEO 

Through to semis, i ended up battling against one of the fiercest dancers Devine! The music was pretty tough for me, DMX being the first track i struggled to pop to it. We ended up a tie in the first round so round 2 we had to give it our all! The track was Nelly Furtado "Promiscuous Girl" - i know it but again not the best track to pop or lock to sooo i had to bring out some waacking moves! Devine hit back with some great moves, and unfortunately beat me in terms of attitude. I was still happy i managed to stick with the foundations when it could have easily become a "twerk-off" which i'm sure the audience would have loved haha.

SEMI FINAL VIDEO

The rest of the battles were so entertaining and Mel managed to get to the final which was meant to be a 3-way but ended up with her battling one of the younger guys. He was really good and in the end took the prize!! 

FINAL BATTLE

All in all a fun day and i'm looking forward to the next one as i would really like to bring some of the kids from my classes! I have always said i'm not a battler but it's amazing the buzz it gives you and it can get quite addictive as that's the second battle i have under my belt! It's definitely a way to push out of your comfort zone, which can't be a bad thing right?!

Thanks for reading!!
Nadz