BIY: Bal It Yourself, A Virtual Cousin to Tinkerbal

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Tink called! Sadly, she can’t make it this year. But her tech-whiz cousin is here to take her place!

Join Boston Balboa on October 2-4 for BIY: Bal It Yourself, a Tinkerbal-inspired, virtual workshop! We’re excited to launch the event with an incredible lineup of instructors: Jennifer Lee, Teni Lopez-Cardenas, Laura Keat, Bobby White and Adam Speen!

BIY is a small-group Balboa workshop designed to support personalized learning in a virtual environment. Students will be divided into small groups, and each group will move together throughout the weekend. You’ll spend time with four of our instructors over the course of the weekend. Saturday includes over three hours of classes, each hour with a different instructor. On Sunday you’ll meet with a fourth instructor for a video feedback session. Students are invited to send in a video prior to the event for the personalized video feedback session.

On Saturday evening, bust out your moves at a virtual DJ’d dance party, and on Sunday, enjoy a relaxed virtual social.

This weekend is designed to be welcoming to people attending solo or with a partner.

All classes require students to be familiar with the fundamental movements and figures of Pure Balboa and Bal-Swing including both Pure Balboa basics, ad libs (progressives, side scoots, paddle turns), lollies, out-and-ins, tossouts and swivels.

Your pass includes:

Small group experiences with four world renowned Balboa instructors.
Three virtual small group classes on Saturday (1.25 hrs each)
A personalized video feedback session with your pod on Sunday (approximately 1.5 hours).
Technical Shuffle: A Friday night social. Come hang out and test your tech with us.
Virtual Shuffle: a Saturday Night DJ’d virtual party
Video Speakeasy: a relaxed virtual social gathering at the end of the weekend

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN.
Please note: You will need your Zoom username to register. Please register with the Zoom account you intend to use for the weekend. Creating a Zoom account is completely free, and you do not need to pay for any of the optional upgrades to participate.

*REGISTER HERE*

Special Notes about Sunday’s Video Feedback Session:

On Sunday you will have an opportunity to receive personalized feedback from a BIY teacher. Your pod will gather at the start of the feedback session. Your teacher will play the videos from all podmates who submitted a video for review, and will give individual, personalized feedback to each student – about 10 minutes worth of feedback, and relevant exercises per student.

We encourage you to participate in this friendly video feedback session. Not only will you benefit from the personalized feedback you receive, but you’ll also get access to useful tips given to other students! However, if you would like to opt out of sending a video, that is fine! You may still attend the feedback session, but you will not get personalized feedback on your dancing.

Videos are due no later than Saturday, September 19. Please mark that in your calendars, as we’re unable to accept late video submissions!

Video Criteria:

Your video should be uploaded to YouTube. We cannot accept other platforms.
Your video must not be password locked and must be accessible by anyone who has the link.
Your video can be solo dancing or partnered dancing.
You should be dancing to music!
Your video should be approximately 60 seconds long. Longer videos are okay, but only 60 seconds may be reviewed during the session due to time constraints

REGISTRATION DETAILS
Your registration includes all Saturday sessions and the Sunday video feedback session. If you would like for your video to be reviewed in the Sunday session, you must submit your video by September 19, 2020. You can submit your video with your registration, OR send it kayla@bostonbalboa.org. If you do not want your video reviewed, please select to OPT OUT of the video review session in your registration form.

Your registration includes the Virtual Shuffle, but participation in the signature Shenanigans requires a $5 fee. Your registration includes the Virtual Speakeasy.

SLIDING SCALE
We understand that times are hard! Our primary goal for this event is to create a community space. So, aside from the $5 Signature Shenanigans, pricing for this event is pay what you can. We’re putting some recommended tiers below, but please don’t feel pressured by them. Any money you pay will go directly toward paying the teachers and DJs involved.

Recommended Donation Tiers:
Recommended Price – $80 Thanks! This covers our basic costs.
Patron Level – $100 Thank you! Your contribution will help support costs for others!
Scholarship Level – $160 WOW THANKS! Your contribution covers full tuition for another student.

Schedule – ALL TIMES ARE IN EASTERN TIME

Friday
8:00pm – 9:30pm	Technical Shuffle – A social gathering where we can get all our technical struggles for the weekend out of the way!

Saturday
12:30 – 1:00pm	Check-in: The Zoom Meeting will Open, and you will be placed into a waiting room until the organizers open the room. We recommend signing in no later than 12:45PM just in case you have to troubleshoot any technical issues.
1:00pm – 1:15pm	Welcome and housekeeping. Please be on time for this, as we will be giving important information on how to move through the weekend.
1:15pm – 2:30pm	First Breakout session – join your pod and your first instructor for the weekend for a small group session.
2:30pm – 2:45pm	15 minute Chill Time
2:45pm – 4:00pm	Second Breakout Session – join your pod and your second instructor for the weekend for a small group session.
4:00pm – 4:15pm	15 minute Chill Time
4:15pm – 5:30 pm	Third Breakout Session – join your pod and your third instructor for the last small group session for the day.
5:30pm – 5:45 pm	Wrap up and housekeeping – Questions about how to join the Virtual Shuffle? Ask them now!
8:00pm – 10:30 pm (ish)	Virtual Shuffle – join us and our incredible DJs for a virtual dance party, complete with Boston Balboa ~ Signature Lobster Shenanigans~! (Make sure to pre-register for the shenanigans!)

Sunday
12:30 – 1:00pm	Check-in: The Zoom Meeting will Open, and you will be placed into a waiting room until the organizers open the room. We recommend signing in no later than 12:45PM just in case you have to troubleshoot any technical issues.
1:00pm – 1:15pm	Welcome and housekeeping.
1:15pm – 2:15 pm	Personalized Video Feedback Session – join your pod and your fourth instructor for the weekend in a review of the videos that you pre-submitted. Instructors will give (friendly and helpful!) personalized feedback on each video.
2:15pm – 2:30pm	Weekend Wrap Up
4:00pm – 6:00pm	Virtual Speakeasy – Join us and our cocktail expert for a relaxed social. Our expert will guide us through making boozy and non-boozy beverages (we’ll send the recipes ahead of time if you want to follow along). After we’ve all got our libations of choice in hand, enjoy some light DJing by Boston Balboa’s very own Stan Yen.