Gui Prada: Leader's Intensive in Calgary

𝙕𝙊𝙐𝙆 𝙔𝙔𝘾 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: Gui Prada Leaders Intensive Training in Calgary 🇨🇦
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“In practically every Brazilian Zouk community, and event in the US we observe two patterns:

1 - more followers than leaders come out to social dancing; and
2 - followers develop faster than leaders.

Time and time again, we can observe the above where, even if an event has even numbers of leaders and followers on paper, in practice at the socials we still observe uneven numbers on the dance floor, with more followers than leaders. 

After observing and listening about the experience of other leaders, as well as taking a look back at my own experience, 𝗜 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 - 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸. 

This training has been done in DC, Denver, Austin, and New York already and the results were incredible. The idea is to contribute and provide leaders with an opportunity to grow faster and consistently, receiving immediate feedback about what is important for social dancing and experiencing different styles and levels of following.”  

- Gui 

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚:  

We are going to go together for ✨𝟭𝟲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 (10 hours of instruction, 4 hours of break and 2 hours of practice)✨ total on Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30 following the schedule and curriculum below:

𝙎𝘼𝙏𝙐𝙍𝘿𝘼𝙔 - 𝙁𝙐𝙉𝘿𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇 𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒: 

11 - 1pm - 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 - The walking Foundation and review the basic kit of Fundamentals: 

Basics (In Place and Linear)
Viradinha
Send Away 
Viradinha into Lateral
Lateral 

The first workshop will start with the most important tool for comfort and smoothness - the stepping or walking. We will go over walking with control, balance and awareness of the rest of your body. 

Then we will go over all the fundamentals that do not include head movement bootcamp style. During this part we will focus not only in the review itself, but also making sure you can execute them clearly with all the followers. 

🌮𝙇𝙐𝙉𝘾𝙃 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆 🍜- 1 𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙍 

2 - 3:30pm - 𝙎𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙉𝘿 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 - Continuing the review and smoothing things out 

The second workshop will continue our review and change the focus to smooth them out. We are going to go over the techniques to make your fundamentals feel good and we will count on the feedback of the followers to let us know if we are making progress.

🧁𝙎𝙉𝘼𝘾𝙆 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆 🥐- 30 𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙎 

4 - 5:30pm - 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙍𝘿 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 - Body Movements

Here we are going to laser focus on making our body movements calm and continuous. We will be focusing on undulations and isolations, leading them from our own bodies and in accordance to the music. Again this whole process will be done with the followers feedback.

5:30 - 6:30 - 𝙋𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙀

𝙎𝙐𝙉𝘿𝘼𝙔 : 

11 - 1pm - 𝙁𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙏𝙃 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 - Mindset, Adaptation and the 'Follow the follow principle' 

For this part I will present the mindset that has helped me develop my leading in Brazilian over the years. Within the Mindset we will talk about something extremely important, the ability and willingness to adapt.

🍝𝙇𝙐𝙉𝘾𝙃 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆 🍱- 1 𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙍

2 - 3:30pm - 𝙁𝙄𝙁𝙏𝙃 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 - Touch and physical connection

This workshop will focus on the details of touch. We are going to talk about hands, arms, forearms, fingers, shoulders, chest and all the other parts of our bodies that we tend to tense up or not pay much attention to. We then will focus on close embrace and work on our pillowness.

4 - 5:30pm - 𝙎𝙄𝙓𝙏𝙃 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋 - Pressure points (aka applying pressure in the points of connection) and energy management

We are going to finish talking about managing pressure points, creating consistent points of connection and providing support to the followers.

5:30-6:30pm - 𝙋𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙀

Training like this has never been done before. This will be new for you and for me. Our entire focus will be developing our skills for a pleasant social dancing experience and we will count on the constant and truthful feedback of the followers to help us get there.

𝙄𝙉𝙑𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏

For this training, the cost will be
𝙇𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙎: $250-325 CAD 
✨ (breaks down to about $15-$20/hour) ✨
𝙁𝙊𝙇𝙇𝙊𝙒𝙎: Volunteer / Option to donate
 
𝙏𝙤 𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍 + 𝙋𝘼𝙔:
https://forms.gle/CqBWi1DsESTQQu1o6

✨The Scale system allows us to support our artists/teachers/community while helping make this Intensive more accessible to those who could use some support at this time. (+ Snacks!)

✨Follows can attend at no cost, or are invited to make a donation if they desire

𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 
📍Calgary, AB 
📍Studio: TBA

𝙈𝘼𝙓𝙄𝙈𝙐𝙈 𝙉𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙀𝙍 𝙊𝙁 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙄𝙋𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙎: 50

25 Leads 
25 Follows

𝙋𝙧𝙚-𝙍𝙚𝙦 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙:
Basics (In Place and Linear)
Viradinha
Send Away 
Viradinha into Lateral
Lateral