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Breakin’ Convention Workshops

4 & 5 May 2024

Breakin' Convention Workshops © Belinda Lawley

The Breakin’ Convention festival’s workshop programme is a hot house of technique, challenge and creativity. This is your opportunity to hone your technique or try dance for the first time, learning from some of the best hip hop, house and funk style dancers from across the globe.

All workshops take place at Sadler’s Wells Studios, please meet at Stage Door. How to get here

Part of Breakin’ Convention

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Popping

Artist: Femme Fatale
Level: General

Saturday 4 May, 12:15pm – 2:15pm
£10.00

Practice perfecting the perfect pop with the leading lady crew of popping. In this workshop, Marie Poppins, Dassy Lee and Lily Frias will guide you through wrist pops to dimestops, plus a Q&A after so you can ask all your burning questions.

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Injury Prevention

Artist: BreakinAlign
Level: General

Saturday 4 May, 12:15pm – 1:45pm
£10.00

This workshop invites all styles dancers in a session that will cover practical conditioning tactics, strategy, injury prevention tools, as well as injury management tactics during an injury. The workshop will include theory blended with a practical session, so bring your comfortable clothes and notebooks.

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Locking

Artist: Ibrah Silas Jackson
Level: General

Saturday 4 May, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
£10.00

Join Ibrah Silas Jackson (CREATE4, Ghetto Funk Collective) in a funky class teaching choreography in the style of locking that fuses James Brown’s iconic movements with the most soulful of grooves.

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Hip Hop Improvisation
Artist: Dafne (Compagnie Kilaï)

Level: General

Sunday 5 May, 10:30am – 12:00pm
£10.00

Discover oneself in the present moment, be together, and strip away all pretences to be fully oneself, in this workshop from Compagnie Kilaï’s Dafne Bianchi. Learn to rediscover your movements to convey a message with improvisation and freestyle exercises along with tools that you can use for your personal training afterwards.

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Breaking

Artist: Jinjo Crew
Level: General

Sunday 5 May, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
£10.00

Learn to express the basic movements and techniques from Jinjo Crew’s Vero where you can learn rhythm, feeling and soul from his signature movements.

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Hip Hop Freestyle

Artist: Sons of Wind
Level: General

Sunday 5 May, 12:15pm – 1:45pm
£10.00

Become a part of the bounce with this groove-infused hip hop freestyle class from Sons of Wind’s Twizzy and Junior influenced by their performance at Breakin’ Convention

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House

Artist: Yugson Hawks
Level: General

Sunday 5 May, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
£10.00

Take a highly energetic class with Wanted Posse’s Yugson Hawks! Expect to sweat in this class where one of France’s foremost house music DJs will work you out to some choice cuts, while taking you through the steps you need to know on the dance floor.

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In My Element
Level: Beginner (ages 14 – 17 only)

Sunday 5 May, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Free

Join Academy Breakin’ Convention for In My Element, our FREE Hip Hop Taster Workshops in Breaking, Emceeing, Popping and Hip Hop Social Dance. At these workshops you will have the opportunity to work with industry professionals, develop your confidence and creativity, meet some of the ABC team and ask questions about the course.

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