This is such an amazing event….. and we always feel so lucky to be a part of it!!!  There are over 300 classes taught to over 6000 dancers during this 5 day event…… I have never seen so many styles of dance come together for one event before.  Every dance has their own room for social dancing at night until 1 in the morning…. when the party moves to the bar at one of the hotels and continues until 4 or 5 in the morning!  The atmosphere is so amazing all day and all night…. it is an unbelievable experience!  We love this event because we get to see a lot of our friends…. mostly ones we don’t get to see very often  from different styles of dances! 🙂

The workshops… we taught 9 hours over the weekend and had a really fun time with each group!  We felt that we had a lot of hard workers, and we really tried to make the energy fun for everyone!  Thank you to all the levels for focusing and trying your hardest with us…. even on Sunday when we know you were so dead from a long week of classes!!!!!  We really appreciate it and loved the energy of the classes!

A little more about the bar…. every night was great there with all the different dances….. but Saturday was extra special because of the jam that happened!!  Starting with Maxime and John Lindo… moving on to more swing dancers…. then some hip hop dancers…. and ending with some amazing salsa dancers!!!!! And ending it with some fun solo line dances to bring it back to social dancing…. Farid Ferchach, Luis Vasquez, and Dado Ibrakovic really brought that bar to life all weekend…. it wouldn’t have been the same without them!!!!

   

The shows…. Every night there is a huge professional show in the big dome… Maxime has been a part of the show every year for the last 4 years…. and this year, Friday morning, they asked us to be a part of the show on Friday night!!!  We hadn’t practiced in awhile…. but we decided that we would try and do our routine!!  We had no costume… but thanks to Claude from Le Disc n’ roll shoes….. I had some really beautiful shoes for the show 😉  We felt so honored to be part of a wonderful show… and it was a moment we will never forget 🙂

Thanks everyone for such a great weekend…. we really hope we will be back next year!!!

-Maxime and Torri 😉