Targeted Audience – ATS® Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced
The Queen’s Court formation enables a large group of beautiful “featured dancers” to dance together, at the same time, using in-the-round staging. This formation is a great alternative to rotating quartets, trios, and duets in and out of chorus. By engaging all the dancers in the same formation at the same time, viewers experience a magical whirlwind of colors and motion while 6-12 dancers weave, fade, and circle.
While the formation looks complex from the audience’s point of view, it’s an easy adjustment for the dancers. Dancers continue to rely on the ATS® moves and principles that they know, while using a new, simple inner/outer circle formation to facilitate a large group and dancing in the round.
In this workshop you will learn the rules of engagement and dynamics of the Queens Court formation. You will learn how to set up the inner/outer circle formation and how to make it work with duets and trios in the round. We will drill the formation with both slow and fast ATS® songs and vocabulary in groups of 6 -12 dancers.