9 novice and intemediate level workshops covering:
West Coast Swing, Salsa, Country Western 2-Step, and Cha Cha.
Individual workshops or novice, intermediate, and VIP packages
are available.
10 % discount for WCSA members with current 2008 memberships.
Video Notebook DVDs are now ready!
If you ordered one you can pick it up on Monday nights at Club Soraya between 6:45pm and 8:15pm
or contact Liv at 244-1505 for other pick up times and locations.
Contact us at directors@wcsalaska.org
or call Liv
at 244-1505 for more information.
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Together
Myles and Tessa met at a Vancouver Swing Club dance where he was hired in to teach. She and her partner at the time took privates from him and they became fast friends. A year later and partnerless, she played host to him every time he was in town to teach. After a few visits secretly designed to "sell" him on the idea of relocating, Myles was convinced to move to Vancouver.
They made their debut as a partnership on home turf at the Sea to Sky Dance Convention in September 2002. Since then they have taken the West Coast community by storm, both independently and as a team, teaching, performing, winning competitions, judging, emceeing, and coaching choreography. They now live together in the heart of Vancouver, but travel extensively and frequently across North America and abroad.
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Myles Dance Background
Myles is a natural born dancer and teacher who was fortunate to have recognized his talent at a young age and has trained and developed it ever since.
He has extensive experience and credits in Jazz, Ballet, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre, Martial Arts, Country, Latin, Ballroom, and Swing. He is able to draw on
multiple sources of training and experience for unique dancing and teaching strategies. Myles has the amazing ability to observe a dance he's never seen and
after only 5 minutes be able to replicate it perfectly with the technique and style it normally would take years to develop.
Myles, tagged along with his parents and brother Toby to regional country dance events and caught the dance bug. Since the age of 8, Myles has studied all forms of performing
arts, falling in love with the stage and partner dancing in particular. After winning his first World Championship title at age 14 he went on to win 5 more,
the bulk of them with Lisa Richardson, now McIntyre. Teaching since age 14, he was always the youngest instructor on staff, consistently challenging dancers'
stereotypes about "age=expertise". He continutes to contribute to and influence the state of the art
Tessa
After a lifetime of competitive swimming and music, she attended UBC to acheive her Bachelor of Human Kinetics degree. Dad, Roger, took up ballroom dancing and she would hang out at the parties and try to follow along. She learned how to follow before she learned how to dance. Upon graduation, she was looking for a new hobby and found 2Can Dance Company. She spent 1 year learning the basics of all partner dances under local instructor Ian Kirkconnell.
When Ian discovered the West Coast Swing phenomenon, he convinced her to attend her first swing event, Seattle Easter Swing where she fell in love at first sight with the dance.
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