Join us to practice your twerk freestyle skills! In this course you will practice improvisation skills and learn how to produce your own movement language.
Time: Mondays 8.1.–19.2.2024 at 17:15–18:10 o’clock
Place: Flama Rauhankatu, hall 2 (Rauhankatu 15, 20100 Turku)
Teacher: Meri Niemi
The course fee includes 7 x 55 min sessions.
Twerk classes are meant for over 16-year-olds. You need knee pads to the twerk classes.
If you want to pay for the course partly with some sport or cultural benefits (Smartum, Edenred, ePassi), please sign up by sending an email to info@flama.fi.
Attention! In spring 2024, you can join this course with Flama’s Season Anytime without an additional course fee. In that case, sign up for the course by sending an email to info@flama.fi.
85,00 €
You can dance with dancing shoes or socks. Normal comfortable workout clothes are fine for the class, but if you want, you can also wear something suitable for twerking, such as fishnet tights. Remember a water bottle too.
The course also includes floor work, so it is a good idea to bring knee pads or leg warmers to protect your knees. You can buy knee pads from our online shop, or at our studio (30 €/pair).
Looking for your own movement – small steps towards a more confident freestyle! In this course, you get to know how to produce your own movement and practice improvisation skills. The aim of the course is to create a warm atmosphere, so that freestyle is as comfortable as possible.
The lessons consist of a warm-up and exercises to support your own freestyle and we also discuss the exercises in verbal form. In the first class, we will go through the principles of a safer space. All the exercises are voluntary, and nobody has to perform alone against their will.
If you have something on your mind that might affect your participation in the course, you can confidentially let the instructor know about it at the beginning of the course.
To get more information, please send us an email to info@flama.fi.
The twerk, which has gained great popularity in the world, focuses on the movements of the pelvic area. Twerk has its roots in various African American and African dances, including mapouka, baikoko, niko and chakacha. With slavery, the dances associated with the cultural traditions of different countries, cultures, and tribes in Africa have become mixed, and that is why the roots of the twerk cannot be associated with the dances of just one region or cultural heritage. The concept of twerk started to be used in the late 80s, for example in the context of the bounce hip hop trend in New Orleans.
As a teacher, Meri is an easy-going person who encourages her students to go above and beyond. Classes are serious, but with a twinkle in the eye – often filled with laughter and humour as well as dance. Meri thinks that the best thing in her classes is absolutely to see how people go beyond themselves and do something they could not even believed to be possible.
Meri’s favourite motto, often heard in the dance hall, is: own style best style, own moves best moves and own party best party! Meri’s goal as a teacher is that every dancer should dare to be inspired by their own unique movement language and be exactly who they are at that moment.< <3
More information about the course: info@flama.fi
