Beyond the steps: turns

Go beyond the steps, discover what makes the movement work.

About The Course

Comfortable in beginner classes, ready to work on real detail and technique? Most beginner classes teach you what to do. This one is built around why.

Turns can be one of the most frustrating skills to master. you know the steps and can understand the choreography, but when the execution of a clean turn takes place is most often when everything seems to fall apart.

This is a full structured training workshop with expert teaching focused over three day, designed to take you beyond simply doing the steps and into understanding the mechanics behind them. it goes beyond what a weekly class does and intends to give you tools that last beyond the intensive.

Over 3 days, Burlov Dance School founder, Kirill Burlov will help you to break down the details that make a turn successful, from spotting, placement to alignment, preparation, balance and control. you'll have the time and space to slow things down, identify what's getting in your way, and build the technical foundations that allow turns to become a more consistent and confident part of your body's vocabulary.

Whether you're new to beyond the steps and ready to take your dancing a little deeper, or you've joined us before and know the value of working on one skill at a time, this workshop is an opportunity to really understand your technique instead of just repeating it.

and this is just the beginning!

Beyond the steps returns this autumn with four focused workshops, each building on the last:

Turns -> Jumps -> Adagio -> The build

Same level. same attention to detail you may know from the reset intensive, one focused skill at a time. this is the first of four workshops running through autumn. The series brings it all together in the build, a 5 day intensive bringing everything together and challenging you to apply what you've developed across the workshops.

come for one workshop and sharpen a specific skill.

come for the whole series and experience the progression.

Whats included

Essential Pilates, tailored to ballet, to keep you going through the course
Floor barre and barre work broken down movement-by-movement; no more copying shapes, understanding what each one does
Centre work, jumps, and focused turns workshops
Release technique, improvisation, and basic contemporary vocabulary
Community: connect with other like minded people on the same journey

Who it's for

This is not an absolute beginners' course. You should already have a basic understanding of ballet and have done at least a handful of classes, or come from a strong background in another dance style or sport.

We will break every movement down to its fundamentals, but that's to find and fix what you've missed, not to teach you the alphabet from scratch. If you have some ballet grounding, or solid training in another discipline, you'll be fine.

Where

London School of Flamenco, 13 Amwell St, London EC1R 1UL

**Intimate and hands-on** ~ numbers deliberately kept small so you get real, individual attention throughout. *Spaces limited. First come, first held.*

aBOUT kIRILL

Kirill has performed and worked on stage from a very early age, always connected to dance. In his prime, he performed and built works by top world choreographers, always learning from the best - whether Tanzwochen Summer School or Gaga with Ohad Naharin.

His UK career includes collaborations with Northern Ballet, English National Ballet, the Royal Opera House, Rambert, Michael Clark Dance Company, and many others. From an early age, he trained and performed across a variety of disciplines, drawing together whatever has worked for him - and now shares it with his students.

His training includes a full-time lower and upper ballet school education and a four-year full-time degree in teaching and choreography from the Latvian Music Academy, followed in the UK by further study at Leeds Metropolitan and London School of Contemporary Dance.

He has taught in parallel to his performing career throughout, and has always been fascinated by how some things come easily to beginners and are very difficult for professionals and vice versa. ~ This course grew directly out of that curiosity.