Do you enjoy playing for dancing, but need some inspiration to transform your playing from toe-tapping to foot-stomping? This is the course for you! While emphasising confident, passionate playing to serve and uplift the dancers, the team, led by pianist Jacqueline Schwab, will help you to explore various contemporary English dance styles with tunes old and new (some driving and percussive; others more songlike and flowing). You’ll create simple, vigorous basslines, improvise alternate melodic paths, and attempt to drive the rhythm while also lilting the melodies. You’ll be encouraged to experiment — at your own playing level — to discover and then confidently play your new ideas.