Workshops
The Workshops
If you sign up for a Full Pass for What’s Hop!? you get to join 6+ hours of workshops in lindy hop and solo jazz on the Saturday and Sunday. You can sign up for three different levels, depending on your experience.
Be truthful to yourself, your teacher and fellow students when you register for the workshops and choose the level that suits best.
See: Levels
Included
To broaden your knowledge or just for fun. It can be a culture talk, a musicality class, a dance workshop or a theater performance.
Dependent on schedule and practicality these extra’s are offered per existing group or are free to participate based on choice. It can be that you have to make a choice between alternatives, that each have a maximum restriction in order to keep the number of participants reasonable.
Schedule Workshops
Below you find the schedules of the weekend. It’s the latest version and probably the last.
However it can still be changed due to unexpected events or new insights.
Note: Saturday Party ends 01:00 am, After Party starts 01:00 am
Electives
SATURDAY workshop ELECTIVES (16:30-17:45)
We are really happy to give you the opportunity to choose an elective workshop on Saturday!! You will be able to register at the registration desk, but here is the information so you can have a look at the content.
- Elective 1: What’s Hop routine (int/adv) – Ari and Simon
We told you about the What’s Hop routine, and maybe you have been practicing it. You might have noticed – the routine covers about ⅔ of the song Dominick Swing by Earl Hines. This year, Ari and Simon are in town and not only teaching the routine from 2019 but also the brand new part that completes the whole song!! - Elective 2: Groove in blues (all levels) – Trisha and Edmilson
Trisha and Edmilson prepared a great class for all levels: it is all about feeling the music and letting it guide your movement. Trisha and Edmilason will take some foundational steps and explore how it can come alive through rhythm, timing, and your own personality. You’ll learn how to use your posture and body engagement to move with ease and confidence, while discovering what Blues music inspires in you. The session is relaxed, supportive, and fun. It’s a chance to slow down, tune in, and enjoy the expressive, soulful nature of the dance. - Elective 3: Musicality vs improvisation (all levels) – JoYsS
Often when people improvise they tend to only focus on the physical result, how it looks. Here, during this elective, we are going to see different ways to improvise – not through the movement, but the musicality first. We will also realize how all steps we already know can be done, and redone, a thousand times, depending what musicality they’d be involved in. - Elective 4: Embodied Knowledge (all levels) – Farida Nabibaks, and 2 team members of Reframing HERstory Art Foundation
This guided movement workshop “Move your Story” is based on embodiment and healing. We will touch upon themes of the performance in an embodied way as part of the Radiant Shadow: ANNA experience (so it is best that you saw the performance in the morning! No idea what we are talking about? Check out the website here and if you have not bought your ticket yet, let us know!). No particular dance training is required to be able to participate; we will be tapping into our innate creativity. Please wear comfortable clothes in which you can move easily. It might be a good idea to bring a warm sweater and socks.
SUNDAY workshop ELECTIVES ROCKING IT 1&2 – turned into ONE CLASS (15:15-16:30)
Originally, the advanced levels rocking it 1 and rocking it 2 were supposed to have the choice out of 2 electives on Sunday – but it is just such a blast to be able to announce that Trisha, Edmilson and JoySs teamed up to teach one big class for both levels:
- Rhythm, Voice, and the Circle – Trisha, Edmilson & JoYsS
Rooted in African dance traditions, this session explores the circle as a space of shared rhythm, mutual respect, and expressive exchange. Through rhythm-based exercises and structured improvisation, participants will translate everyday emotions and experiences into movement. Each dancer is given space to be seen and heard, contributing to a collective dance jam that values communication, presence, and community connection.
A Lindy Hop festival in Nijmegen organized by Lindy What?! since 2019.
