What is The International Partner Dance Intensive (TIPDI)?
TIPDI is an integrated program with a focus on: Foundations - Connection - Body Awareness - Technique - Quality of Movement - Musicality - Floor Craft.
No complex sequences. No long lectures. Just dance, dance, dance.
At TIPDI, you will immerse yourself in 3 full days of super friendly, highly rigorous, non-competitive dance training for adults. And go social dancing every night! Think of it as "dance camp for adults"!
Enhance your technique and enrich your dance vocabulary in tracked (leveled) classes with the world's top instructors in Salsa, Argentine Tango, and West Coast Swing.
And hugely enhance your flexibility, lines, power, balance, style and presence, in daily classes in Ballet, Modern/Contemporary, and Afro-Haitian taught by three of New York City’s top teachers.
Generally speaking, your day will consist of two 90-minute classes in your "primary" (favorite) dance, plus three more 90-minute classes that rotate you among all the other dance forms! You will become amazing in a single 3-day weekend!
If you're a partner dancer who has never tried classical dance ... TIPDI is for you. Our Ballet, Modern, and Afro-Haitian teachers will be teaching friendly, supportive classes specially designed for folks with exactly your background. See our "Is TIPDI for Me & My Dance Background?" page for details on the ways TIPDI will benefit you!
If you're a classical dancer who has never done partner dance ... TIPDI is for you, too. Our Salsa, West Coast Swing, and Tango teachers are cross-trained instructors who know exactly where you're coming from. See our "Is TIPDI for Me & My Dance Background?" page for details on the ways TIPDI will benefit you!
If you're a dancer who is returning to dance after an absence, or dancer who is weak in one particular area ... TIPDI is also for you. Due to our structure and small class size, you can be certain that you will get the instruction you need to refresh or improve your skills, in an environment of similarly focused adults.
At TIPDI, the lowest level classes are really "Very Accelerated Beginner For People With 2+ Years of Dance Experience In A Different Dance." You can find classes like this at TIPDI ... and nowhere else in the world. (There are no "absolute beginner" classes at TIPDI.)
All of our instructors can teach at the highest level, and also provide a solid foundation for dancers who are new to a particular form. They work together to provide friendly (and rigorous) classes specifically for experienced dancers like you. You will smile. You will dance, dance, dance. And oh, you will learn!
3 fun, intense days of cross-training in all six dance forms. 4 nights of social dancing in New York City.
TIPDI is unique.
Our cross-training program is one-of-a-kind. Our goal is to create better all-around dancers in a friendly, intensive, conservatory-like environment. It's all dance, all the time, in the middle of New York City, one of the world's great centers of dance. At TIPDI, you can focus on becoming the kind of dancer you have always wanted to be, with some of the best instructors in the world.
TIPDI is international.
TIPDI is the only intensive of its kind in the world — so we are inviting the whole world to come! You will have a truly international partner dance experience. In 2013, we welcomed dancers from all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Asia. We look forward to having you join us!
Secretly, you know you want to have that crazy dance camp experience where you can just be a dancer all day long. TIPDI is the answer.
See accolades from our alumni here!
No complex sequences. No long lectures. Just dance, dance, dance.
At TIPDI, you will immerse yourself in 3 full days of super friendly, highly rigorous, non-competitive dance training for adults. And go social dancing every night! Think of it as "dance camp for adults"!
Enhance your technique and enrich your dance vocabulary in tracked (leveled) classes with the world's top instructors in Salsa, Argentine Tango, and West Coast Swing.
And hugely enhance your flexibility, lines, power, balance, style and presence, in daily classes in Ballet, Modern/Contemporary, and Afro-Haitian taught by three of New York City’s top teachers.
Generally speaking, your day will consist of two 90-minute classes in your "primary" (favorite) dance, plus three more 90-minute classes that rotate you among all the other dance forms! You will become amazing in a single 3-day weekend!
If you're a partner dancer who has never tried classical dance ... TIPDI is for you. Our Ballet, Modern, and Afro-Haitian teachers will be teaching friendly, supportive classes specially designed for folks with exactly your background. See our "Is TIPDI for Me & My Dance Background?" page for details on the ways TIPDI will benefit you!
If you're a classical dancer who has never done partner dance ... TIPDI is for you, too. Our Salsa, West Coast Swing, and Tango teachers are cross-trained instructors who know exactly where you're coming from. See our "Is TIPDI for Me & My Dance Background?" page for details on the ways TIPDI will benefit you!
If you're a dancer who is returning to dance after an absence, or dancer who is weak in one particular area ... TIPDI is also for you. Due to our structure and small class size, you can be certain that you will get the instruction you need to refresh or improve your skills, in an environment of similarly focused adults.
At TIPDI, the lowest level classes are really "Very Accelerated Beginner For People With 2+ Years of Dance Experience In A Different Dance." You can find classes like this at TIPDI ... and nowhere else in the world. (There are no "absolute beginner" classes at TIPDI.)
All of our instructors can teach at the highest level, and also provide a solid foundation for dancers who are new to a particular form. They work together to provide friendly (and rigorous) classes specifically for experienced dancers like you. You will smile. You will dance, dance, dance. And oh, you will learn!
3 fun, intense days of cross-training in all six dance forms. 4 nights of social dancing in New York City.
TIPDI is unique.
Our cross-training program is one-of-a-kind. Our goal is to create better all-around dancers in a friendly, intensive, conservatory-like environment. It's all dance, all the time, in the middle of New York City, one of the world's great centers of dance. At TIPDI, you can focus on becoming the kind of dancer you have always wanted to be, with some of the best instructors in the world.
TIPDI is international.
TIPDI is the only intensive of its kind in the world — so we are inviting the whole world to come! You will have a truly international partner dance experience. In 2013, we welcomed dancers from all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Asia. We look forward to having you join us!
Secretly, you know you want to have that crazy dance camp experience where you can just be a dancer all day long. TIPDI is the answer.
See accolades from our alumni here!