2013 Schedule of Events


Friday, August 9
 
6:30pm Registration
7:30-9pm Contras - The Moving Violations and Erik
9-9:15pm Couple dance - The Moving Violations
9:15-9:30pm Break
9:30-11pm Contras - Perpetual e-Motion and Lisa
11-11:15pm Couple dance - Perpetual e-Motion

Saturday, August 10
 
9:30-10am Couple dance - Perpetual e-Motion
10-11:15am Contra workshop - Perpetual e-Motion and Erik
Transitions: Rocket Science of Dance Apogee, balanced forces, centrifugal and centripetal, gravity well. It's all about those magic weightless moments in a dance where you're floating between connections. Superb!
10-11:15am Music workshop - The Moving Violations
Topics may include new tunes, harmony, playing response-ably, backup strategies, and goofing off. Musicians should bring their instruments, a question or two, and expect to play. All instruments, all levels welcome.
11:15-11:45am Medley - Perpetual e-Motion and Erik and Lisa
11:45am-1pm Lunch
1-2:30pm Contras - The Moving Violations and Erik
1:15-2:30pm Music workship - Perpetual e-Motion
Ethereal Music playing by ear - Ears are the conduit of sound, but we make music from the soul with emphasis on your true heartsong. Sound meditation.
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-4:30pm Complex Contras - The Moving Violations and Lisa
4:30-5:30pm Group Singing
4:30-5:45pm Dancing with recorded music
6-7:30pm Dinner on site
7:30-8pm Concert by the fireplace - The Moving Violations
8-11pm The Safari Stomp
8-9:15pm Contras - Perpetual e-Motion and Erik
9:15-9:30pm Couple dance - Perpetual e-Motion
9:30-9:45pm Break
9:45-11pm Contras - The Moving Violations and Lisa

Sunday, August 11
 
10-10:30am Couple dance - Perpetual e-Motion
10:30-noon Contras - Perpetual e-Motion and Lisa
noon-12:30pm Concert - Perpetual e-Motion
12:30-1:45pm Lunch
1:45-3pm Contras - The Moving Violations and Erik
3-3:15pm Break
3:15-4:30pm Contras - The Moving Violations and Lisa

Come to the CounterBalance Contra on Sunday evening from 7:30-10:30 pm and dance to the music of Perpetual e-Motion. The CounterBalance is located just ten minutes north at Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church, 1399 43rd Avenue (43rd Ave & Judah Street), San Francisco. Admission to this dance is not included in the price of Balance the Bay.
Directions from Balance the Bay to the CounterBalance

schedule subject to change