Gary/Joey Workshop 5-20-17

Day-Long Workshop with Joey Warren and Gary O'Reilly - Saturday, May 20, 2017

Sandy Albano and Diane Petoskey put together an awesome weekend of dance for us! We danced until we could do no more on Friday night at the Women's Club of Castleberry - starting at 7 and ending after midnight to an all-request playlist that kept everyone on the floor all night long!

Saturday, we started at 9:30 am with the first teach at 10. We had three teaches from Joey and three from Gary. One improver and two intermediate/advanced from each. With open dancing from the request list in between them all. If anyone did not get enough dancing.... well - I guess for some of us there's just NEVER enough dancing... But I did go home with a full brain and very tired, happy feet!

Joey's teaches included:

Thinkin' & Drivin' - 32 count, 2 wall, tag (3 times) and restart. One of the favorites of our group.

Straight To The Castle - which is just an AWESOME dance.

Slow Burn 17 - Maddison Glover's improver dance that was fun to learn.

Gary's teaches included:

A Friend Like You - his improver dance that really got us moving (it's got some pep to it!)

Slowly, Gently, Softly - this was THE favorite (Castle not included) of the day! 32 count, 2 wall, intermediate "samba" to the Justin Bieber featured song of Despacito. If you haven't seen this one yet, keep your eyes open for it!

You Better Believe - Gary did this one with Maggie Gallagher. 32 count, 4 wall advanced night club to a track by the same name by Train. Very nice dance with lots of turns. One that I'll have to look at again to make the walls come out right!

And then, if you're in the mood to shop - Gary has a couple of shirts (A Life Of Linedance!) and Joey has his new shirts out - still in the Joey Zone but now it's with the soundwave of Straight To The Castle in colors of coral or royal blue or baseball shirt style. Very nice! I came away with a shirt from both guys!

Many thanks to Diane and Sandy for putting this together and kudos to Gary and Joey for a great day of teaches! Well done!