PRACTICAL
We’ll learn the big apple on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday we’ll start from the ‘Londen bridge’. For those who learned the Big Apple in the past and wanne have a recap from the Londen bridge can join on Sunday.
We’ll repeat the whole routine on Monday 21st. For those who wanne do a general rehearsel can also just join for this last evening.
Who can join?
The big apple is a more advanced routine. You better know already some basic jazz steps or you’re a fast learner.
When:
Saturday 19th of March, 13u-19u: Big apple part 1 (till Londen bridge)
Sunday 20th of March, 12u30 - 18u30: Big apple part 2 (from Londen bridge)
Monday 21st of March, 19u30-21u30: Big apple - big recap
Where:
To be announced
PRICE
Learn the big apple (19, 20, 21 March 2016): € 90 euro (€ 80 for students and people in search for work)
Learn the big apple from the Londen bridge (20 & 21 March 2016): € 45 (€ 40 for students and people in search for work)
Recap of the Big apple (21 March): Free, but registration is needed
REGISTRATION
CONTENT
The exact origin of the Big Apple is unclear, but one author suggests that the dance originated from the ‘ring shout’, a group dance associoated with religious observance that was founded before 1860 by African Americans on plantations in South Caroline and Georgia. The ring shout is described as a dance with ‘counterclockwise circling and high arm gestures’ that resembled the Big Apple.
The dance that became know as the Big Apple is speculated to have been created in the early 19330s by African American youth dancing at the House of Prayer Synagogue on Gates Street in Columbia, South Carolina. The synagogue was converted into a black juke joint called the ‘Big Apple Night Club’.
Frankie Manning is credited with inventing the steps of the famous Big Apple Contest for the movie ‘Keep Punching’. With the release of the movie in 1937, his steps where preserved for all of us to see.
Today, the Big apple is danced all over the world on social dances.
Here you find more info about the history of the Big Apple.
Here you can see the Big apple danced by the Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in the movie Keep punching.
Come and learn the big apple with Simon Lagrange and dance it with us!
Perfect timing to learn the big apple, as you can dance it at the GHX one week later!
