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Dance Your Heart Out with Perky Pants!

Step onto the dance floor with Wendy Graham of Perky Pants Dance Company and discover workshops designed to bring people together through movement. Whether you’re brand new to social dance or a seasoned dancer looking to expand your repertoire, Wendy’s engaging teaching style makes every workshop fun, accessible, and rewarding.

Workshop Options

From the lively flow of contras and squares to the elegance of English country dance, the playful connection of partner dances, and the artistry of dance styling, Wendy offers something for every community and every level. Workshops can be tailored to your group’s needs.

Explore the full list of offerings below, and imagine the possibilities for your next festival, weekend, or local dance event.

Contras

  • Fun and Easy, Intermediate, Zesty
  • Modern Contras inspired by English Country Dance
  • Modern Contras inspired by Traditional Square Dance
  • Traditional Favorites, aka. “Chestnuts”
  • “Crossover” crazy contras: incorporating non-traditional figures, forms, music, etc.
  • Contra medley: non-stop, no instruction, 10 – 45 mins, one caller or several
  • “Techno” contra medley: non-stop, no instruction, electronic music

Squares

  • Any level: Fun and Easy, Intermediate, Zesty
  • Any style: New England, Southern, Western, Grid
    Dances from Appalachia
  • Kentucky Running Sets/Big sets
  • Flatfooting/Clogging for contra/square dancers, freestyling
    English Country Dance
  • Playford, Modern, English for contra dancers
  • Any level — beginning, intermediate, zesty

Partner/couples social dance

  • Swing: East Coast, Lindy Hop, Charleston
  • Latin: Salsa, Cha Cha, Merengue
    Rotary/Turning
  • Waltz
  • Country Two-Step
  • Blues

Dance Skills/Styling (apply to any style of dance)

  • Be a GREAT partner: Connecting with the music/your partner
  • Incorporating “extras”
  • Wanna’ Play? Role/partner swap, third wheels, more
  • SAFETY DANCE
  • Or, other skills your community wants to work on

Other

  • Calling (American contras and squares, English)
  • Gender-role free calling (positional calling, larks/ravens/robins)
  • Calling one-night stands and special events, community and family dances
  • Calling and programming a Techno contra
  • Dance writing (American contras and squares, English- as an individual, or by “committee”)
  • Community building — how to start a community, or revitalize and grow an existing one
  • Dance calling and writing combined class
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