BLT Weekend with Nelle Cherry & Adam Speen (May 2025)
Have a BLT with us! Balboa: Layered Together. Balboa Lollies Tossouts. Balboa Learning Time. Bacon Lettuce Tomato. It’s all good! (if you’re hungry now, go make a sandwich.)
Boston Balboa presents the delicious dancing duo of Nelle Cherry and Adam Speen!
Adam Speen’s partnership with the incomparable Nelle Cherry has been rocking students’ worlds for almost two decades with technique, musicality, partnership, and a whizzing carousel of Balboa funtimes — we are thrilled to bring them to you!
NOTE: all classes require students to be familiar with the fundamental movements and figures of Pure Balboa and Bal-Swing. If you’ve never learned Balboa before, please consider taking one of our Introduction to Balboa series or crash courses rather than this workshop weekend.
LEARNERS will be newer Balboa dancers who are expected to be familiar with (but perhaps not yet fully confident in) the fundamental movements and figures of Balboa, including both Pure Balboa basics, ad libs (progressives, side scoots, paddle turns), lollies, out-and-ins, tossouts and swivels. If you have taken our Fundamentals 1A & 1B content, this is you!
REFINERS will be more intermediate/advanced dancers looking to add vocabulary, musicality, and flow to their Balboa. At a minimum, Refiners should be comfortable with the above figures at tempos in the 180-190bpm range (such as In the Groove at the Grove) or beyond.
On each day there will be 3 classes that will run 75 minutes each.
– the first class will be geared towards Learners
– the last class will be geared towards Refiners
– the middle class with be for both groups where everyone will work together, like the best BLT sandwiches
Schedule (both Saturday & Sunday)
12:00pm-1:15pm: Session 1 – Learners
2:30pm-3:45pm: Session 2 – Learners+Refiners
4:00pm-5:15pm: Session 3 – Refiners
Registration Options
We have 3 registration options, and for each, there are 3 price tiers: Budget, Standard, and Patron.
Signing up for either the Learners or Refiners track provides 5 hours of instruction.
Refiners may also sign up for the whole weekend, for a total of 7.5 hours of instruction, which we recommend!
Prices: (Budget/Standard/Patron):
Learners (2 sessions/day, 5hrs total) $80 / $130 / $150
Refiners (2 sessions/day, 5hrs total) $80 / $130 / $150
Refiners Comprehensive (3 sessions/day, 7.5 hours total) $100 / $150 / $170
Saturday Night Shuffle – pay what you can (suggested $5 with workshop registration)
Reserve your spot: Register today!
TIME & PLACE:
Saturday May 31 – Sunday June 1, 2025
classes: Waltham Government Center, Auditorium; 119 School Street, Waltham
Saturday Night Shuffle: First Parish Church Waltham, 50 School Street, Waltham