Workshop starting at one, we are looking forward to really enhancing your dance experience by looking at frame, connection, footwork and micro leading to bring subtlety and nuance into your dance style…

Come six o’clock, the nonsense begins with all U’ve come to love and expect about Mariachi Tea Dances… chilled flavour of intense music, cake, tea, cake, great dancers, cake, expressive music, cake, coffee and the like… oh, have we mentioned there will be cake??

Call CJ on 07711354067 or email bookings@mariachi.info to prebook your place…

and so….
Saturday 28 August - Monday 30 August
Rosyth, Fife

More workshops
More expressive music
More guest teachers
More expressive music
More expressive dancers
More expressive music
More of the madness U’ve come to expect
More details to follow…

And now the details are here!!!!

Sat: 13.00-16.00: Flash Moves (with incorporated competition skills) Mr Blueshoes
Sat: 16.00- 19.00 Off The Beaten Track with CJ

Sat 19.30-0100 Mariachi Dance with CJ and Blueshoes

Sun: 12.00- 15.00: Mini and social aerials with Blueshoes
Sun: 15.00- 18.00: expressive moves, moving to slow music with CJ

Sun: 18.00- 00.00 (at the VERY earliest) Mariachi Blues + Passion with CJ and Revdrop respectively.

The Venue is
Masonic Hall
183-185 Admiralty Road
Rosyth, United Kingdom

Both nights feature a guest DJ spot, also. :~) Mr Pete Shillito!!

Mr Frank Newton (Blueshoes) and Very Extremely Really Reverend Morris Rodham (Revdrop) should need no introduction. Famed for playing expressive tunes with great taste, for style and flair on the dance floor and for being cool guys off the floor, too, they are extremely welcome here at Mariachi and are very much looking forward to the weekend!!

If U have been to Mariachi before (absolutely anywhere at all) then workshops are £10 each and the dances are free.

For reasons of gender balance, YOU MUST PRE BOOK TO TAKE YOUR FREE PLACE.
bookings@mariachi.info

That aside: IF U HAVE NEVER BEEN TO MARIACHI BEFORE, workshops are £15, dances are £8 or both nights for £10.
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The set up is just part of it… Mariachi is very proud of its dancers, its friendly atmosphere, its ethos of being a safe place to dance right on the edge, to be as free as U want within the music and to have a damned good dance surrounded by friendly people. This weekend event will be no different: amazing dancers from both sides of the border; expressive music; cake; a warm welcome; a little bit of the OTHER (On The Hour Experimental Record) and a beautiful sprung dance floor just begging to be danced upon!!
Come and join us for one peach of a dance experience…

Come and join us for one peach of a dance experience…

Starting at 6.00pm, the now infamous Mariachi tea dance is back!! Tea/coffee; biccies and cakes; lovely chilled atmosphere; fantastic dancers and Mariachi Lite tunage…

Mariachi believes in inspiring music… music which begs to be danced to, not music you dance to out of obligation. Within every Mariachi track, there are layers… U can choose to dance to the obvious layers, the rhythms or the more complex subtleties underneath.

Mariachi plays every style from flamenco to rock, going through country, R&B, pop, latin and Rock ‘n’ Roll on the way. A glimpse at the website will give U previous playlists but you can expect to hear Santana, Van Morrison through to Black Eyed Peas… passing Eagles, Daniel Bedingfield and many others on the way…

More genres than usual, more range of tempi than normal… enc
ouraging expression within your dance, some tunes U know, some old friends U haven’t met, yet..

Workshop -

When we are taught to dance… when is it we are actually taught to dance??

We all know the model… we learn moves, we learn to take each part of the move on the beat… we hope our partner “knows” the move and then she’ll “follow”.

But is this dance?? Really dancing??

This workshop is about taking U beyond moves… over 4 hours, Pauline “Cheeks” Roddy and I will be covering lots and lots of technique to enhance the moves U already have…

We will look at techniques such as frame, connection, body leading, pausing, leading and following varying speeds within the same move, etc…

There will also be some for Q&A session… I have found myself in situation X, thought I was going to position Y and ended up here… What can I do to help?? etc, etc, etc…

And so, we go beyond the moves, into real communication and the essence of dance…

Come with us for the afternoon and feel yourself being catapulted into a new realm…

Cost Tea Dance £8 advance £10 door , Workshop £25 or Tea Dance & Workshop -£30

Venue: Masonic Hall 183-185 Admiralty Road, Rosyth, United Kingdom

To book email us at bookings@mariachi.info or call on 077 1135 4067