Wine Country Line Dance presents a line dance workshop with Will Craig and Bryan McWherter taking place in Petaluma, CA on the first weekend of April 2012.

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If you missed the registration cut-off or wanted to join us for the evening dance:
Workshop: $90 at the door
Evening Dance: $20 at the door
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Where:
Petaluma Veteran’s Memorial Hall
1094 Petaluma Blvd S, Petaluma CA 94952
[Driving Directions]

When:
Friday April 6, 2012
- Meet & Greet: 4:45 – 8pm at Kodiak Jacks [256 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma CA 94952]. This will be casual so you can join us at any time. If you plan to have a bite to eat there, check out the menu.

Our Meet and Greet is officially over at 8pm and after that Kodiak Jacks’ schedule for the evening is: Beginner line dance lesson around 8 pm with a country band starting at 9:30pm. So, you can stay as long as you’d like.
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Saturday April 7, 2012
- Workshop: 10:30 am – 5:30 pm
- Evening Dance: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
*** Evening Dance Playlist***

Instructor/Choreographer Will Craig

Will Craig began dancing at the age of 9. His mother took him to a line dance class at a popular club, and he easily picked up on the local dances. A couple years later, in 1996, a dance team named “Pure Country” noticed Will dancing and invited him to join the team. Pure Country went on to win numerous awards in the Team Division in the UCWDC Competitions. In 1997, Will began to compete in the Junior Division. In fact, he took first place in the Junior Int Pro Am in 1998 at UCWDC Worlds Competitions. He then began teaching at Fred Astaire Dance Studio in 1999, and won numerous awards in Ballroom Dancing. However, eventually Will was drawn back to Country Line Dancing. Since 2001 he has remained committed to teach, choreograph and dance simply for fun. This is his top priority, and Will hopes that no one ever forgets the “FUN” in dancing. After all… isn’t that why we all started our dancing journey?

[Excerpt from Will's website]

Choreography
These are a few of his dances: 2 Nite, It Will Rain, Let Me C It, MMM Dada, Someone’s Gotta Go, Tic Tok Drop, This City, Without You, Yeah

Instructor/Choreographer Bryan McWherter

Bryan began dancing when he was about 7 years old. His parents, Ken & Ginette, knew their son had a long future ahead of him in dance, so they knew they had to support him and help him follow his dreams.

He started to attend classes in Northern Pennsylvania, and Upstate New York. By the mid 1990′s Bryan discovered another love that also connected him to the dance community and that was choreography. Bryan says “my first dance was not my best in my eyes; in fact it was 60 counts, I don’t know what I was thinking?” Never the less “Firehouse Boogie” as Bryan titled it was good enough for the July 1995 issue of CDL (Country Dance Lines) Magazine. This encouraged this young choreographer to hit the drawing board again. In the winter of 1996 with the help from Max Perry and Kathy Hunyadi, Bryan’s second dance “Santa Claus Boogie” was published in the December 1996 issue of Linedancer Magazine. Through the years Bryan continued to choreograph new dances and then in the fall of 1999 enter some into competition in the U.C.W.D.C. (United Country Western Dance Council). This fazed out quickly, as around the same time Bryan discovered once again a new love, instruction. He says “There is just something about teaching, sharing my gift of dance and instruction; I feel in my heart it’s meant to be.”

[Excerpt from Bryan's website]

Choreography
Here are some of his dances: Accordion Love, Goodbye Cha, Gravity, Imagine, Let It Go!, Phloor Philla, Rum’n'coke

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Links

Will’s website – Will’s Empire Of Dance: http://www.willsempireofdance.com
Bryan’s website – http://www.bryanmcwherter.com/

Facebook Event Page – https://www.facebook.com/events/250353225031840/