Jill is a long time blues dancer and will be teaching slow drag blues fundamentals!
Slow drag is in some ways the ‘original’ blues dance idiom created by Black Americans as blues music inspired dancers in the crowded juke joints of the Mississippi Delta in the late 1800s. In the early 20th century, as the Great Migration brought Black musicians and dancers north for greater opportunity, dancers adapted the slow drag to travel around the ballroom to jazz blues and Latin rhythms of the big bands. Join us to explore the stylings and techniques slow drag creates for dancers.

Location: Sheila K. Piercey Studio at Dalhousie Arts Centre 6101 University Ave

Date: October 29th 2025

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Levels:

• For beginners, ideally you will have some experience in partner dance (extemporaneous like Swing Dance (Lindy/West Coast)/Latin/Kizomba is better than predicted patterned and more formal like Ball Room) so that you are familiar with feeling and reacting to connection and moving to music. In addition, plan for close connection so if you have personal space boundary issues, or someone has ever indicated to you that you have failed to read their boundaries, this might be challenging. If this is your first dance experience, try to make it out to one of our socials beforehand.

• For experienced dancers, Jill has a wide breadth of experience in this dance, and tends to bring out something different at every presentation, so there is likely to be something in addition to the opportunity to practice your adaptation to dancing with all levels in the presence of an experienced coach