Balboa Workshop with Jenn and Stephen

Time: 11:30-17:00 (4hrs of classes, plus breaks)

Location: The Harbour Totterdown, 7 Bushy Park, Bristol, BS4 2EG

Price: £45 early bird tickets, £55 full price

About the teachers:

Jenn Lee (She/Her) is a renowned swing dance instructor with a passion for fostering an inclusive and collaborative learning environment. She emphasizes the importance of follow voice, ensuring equal attention to both leads and follows.

As a professional follow without a dedicated partner, Jenn’s versatile dance style adapts to various partners and teaching collaborations, enhancing her abilities as an instructor. Her strong music background allows her to seamlessly integrate rhythmic concepts and musicality into her classes, helping students express themselves on the dance floor.

Jenn is deeply aware that jazz, including swing dance, is a Black cultural art form, and she strives to honor its roots by teaching with respect for its history and the community that created it.

Stephen Badham (He/Him)  first started dancing Balboa in Birmingham way back in 2007. Since then, he’s attended multiple national and international events including All Balboa Weekend, California Balboa Classic and The Balboa Experiment, amongst others. He has participated and placed in a variety of competitions and studied the practice of teaching Balboa alongside numerous international instructors including the privilege of learning directly from Old Timer dancers such as Dean Raftery and Marge Takier. He also co-founded Birmingham Swing Festival which ran between 2016 – 2020.

After something of a hiatus from teaching since the Covid pandemic, he’s really excited to have been asked to teach alongside the inimitable Jennifer Lee and share his favourite bits of Balboa.