I wrote to Henry Neeman, who will be teaching the workshops at SIU this
weekend, to ask him what level of dancers the workshops are aimed at.
Here's his reply:
Forwarded message:
> >Are those workshops aimed at RAW beginners, or at people who have
> >danced but haven't had WCS or hustle, or at people who have had
> >just a little instruction in WCS and hustle? ...
>
> They're designed for people who've had no instruction in WCS or
> hustle, and not much of anything else. The SIU club is inviting
> people from the SIU campus ballroom class(es?) as a way of
> recruiting new members, and they've only been dancing a few weeks.
>
> However, I'll be teaching it as much as I can in multiple layers:
> in addition to the basic figures, I'll be adding technique,
> styling and syncopation details, which raw beginners can ignore,
> but that should be useful for people who have modest experience
> with these dances.
>
> Experienced WCS and hustle dancers won't learn all that much new
> stuff, though. There simply isn't time in two hours (per dance)
> even to cover all the basic material, let alone groovy variations.
> I know because I've tried (8-).
>
> Henry