Jazz: Beginner

Come along and join this vibrant jazz course that is perfect for both beginners and dancers with some experience.

Each week the class will begin with an aerobic warm up to quicken the blood flow and then move onto a range of exercises that will enhance your jazz dance technique.

You will improve your mobility, strength, stamina and flexibility and then learn a dance routine.

A great way to get ‘dance fit’ while having fun.

Get those jazz hands ready!

About the Tutor 

Gary Rowntree trained at The Northern School of Contemporary Dance and later at Newcastle College. Since graduating, Gary has toured as a dancer and is choreographing, researching and teaching dance across the UK.

In 2011 he set up Gary Rowntree | Dance. His work has been seen at many dance and theatre festivals including Echo Echo Fest, Bounce Festival, Evolve, East Side Arts Festival, Cloud Dance Festival, Pick N Mix, Fresh (North East) and Outburst Queer Arts Festival.

Most recently Gary has worked as the choreographer for Plan B Productions Roaring Twenties, Terra Nova Productions (The Belfast Tempest), Derry International Music Festival (Sasquatch: Peter O’Doherty) Partisan Productions (The Nativity | 100 Years on | East Belfast Boy | I never see the prettiest thing) and Artscare (Here&Now Festival).

Gary is also currently working as a coordinator and lecturer of dance in a range of Secondary and further/higher education Colleges.