Flying Solo with Jo Hoffberg
When: May 17–19, 2024
Where: Traffic Jam! Studio & The Rooted Space
Jo has been hosting her Flying Solo intensive around the world, and we’re thrilled to have her here in Chicago for a full weekend of intensive solo classes focused on general movement, body awareness and control, rhythm, how to use your arms, and more using jazz steps as reference points.
Full Schedule
Friday, May 17
Foundations: 7–10 PM at Traffic Jam! Studio
Saturday, May 18
Bounce & Rhythm: 10:30–1 PM at Traffic Jam! Studio
Arms & Dynamics: 2:30–5 PM at Traffic Jam! Studio
Sunday, May 19
Common Steps & Application: 11–1:30 PM at Traffic Jam! Studio
Musicality & Breaks + Wrap Up: 3–6 PM at The Rooted Space
Event Notes
Purchasing: It’s helpful for us and Jo for each dancer to purchase their own pass for this event, so if you’re planning to come with a friend, that’s awesome, we just ask that everyone purchase their own individual pass. Thanks!
For Travelers: This event is not set up to help with housing, and there will be no parties or dances connected with this workshop.
See additional details below.
Jo Hoffberg has been running partner dance intensives since 2015. During the pandemic, she had ample time to invest in her solo dancing and is now thrilled to recreate the Lindy Tech environment with a focus on the individual dancer!
Previously, Lindy Techs focused on partner dynamics and what skills were necessary to better speak and listen to a partner. Going even deeper, Jo is excited to dig into what makes a great dancer at Flying Solo: rhythm, body awareness, dynamics, improvisation, and intuition.
This small group, TRAINING WEEKEND INTENSIVE will focus on what it means to be a dancer (in this Black American art form), how to train without a partner, and to be unique in style + voice.
This weekend is ideal for the student:
looking to improve the quality of their movement (to improve your partner movement, you also need to work on the solo movement)
who enjoys a good party, but is interested in a highly-focused training weekend
ready to be challenged, in a highly-structured + freeform learning environment (yup, a balance of both)
who is ready to push themselves to get the most out of the weekend (dedicated-learners ftw!!!)
Level: intermediate and up (brave beginners are welcome) - since the pandemic, Jo has taught mostly open level classes (because, it was the time of Zoom Classes) and can absolutely make the exercises more challenging if for some *wild* reason you are not feeling challenged :D
What this weekend is NOT:
this is not a typical "Solo Jazz" weekend. We will use jazz steps as reference points, but we are working on general movement, body awareness and control, rhythm, how to use your arms, etc, instead of memorizing tons of vocabulary.
choreography-based: perhaps we'll use a classic jazz routine as a foundation, but the weekend is about exploration, not memorization and performance (don't get her wrong, Jo LOVES those things, but this weekend isn't about it.
