About us
Welcome, and thank you so much for taking the time to visit our site! We are Krystal and Adam Wilkerson, and we're dance instructors specializing in blues. We'd love to come work with you, whether it be teaching at an established event or helping you get off the ground! We've been partner dancing since 2004, and focusing on Blues since 2010. We've taught styles from swing to ballroom, but blues has really stolen our hearts, and we'd love to come share our passion for it with you! We've had the good fortune to teach at a wide variety of national and regional events, and we even organize one ourselves every year in our hometown of Huntsville, Alabama!
We both still dance various swing styles (mostly balboa and lindy hop), and spend a lot of our free time hiking with our greyhounds and rock climbing. We’ve been teaching swing and blues since 2009, but have been focusing on blues instruction since 2014. Krystal’s passion for the dance is apparent in her teaching style: upbeat, personal, encouraging, and energetic. Adam’s experience teaching math makes his style more analytical and minutiae-oriented. Together, we feel that we balance out as an effective partnership, keen to instruct any group, and our collective passion for the dance is evident in our classes.
We're passionate about teaching not only techniques of blues dance, but also in grounding that work in history. We start with the music and work from there in our lessons, but we also really enjoy digging deep on precise techniques. We love teaching Ballroomin', but we've got a real passion for Southern Blues, so Struttin' and Piedmont have a huge place in our hearts. Adam is from Mississippi originally, after all.
We're also passionate about people finding their own dance within Blues. We encourage doing so, while framing it as best we can in the hardships that the music and dance was borne from, both locally and when we travel. Locally, we host a biweekly practicum at our place where we work with dancers from our home scene on developing their own dance. They come from backgrounds ranging from dancing to hip-hop and Reggae to Lindy Hop, and we learn a lot from them as well.
Community is a key part to dancing.
On philosophy: We believe that blues dancing starts first with the music. There's rich, long history there, and those that make the music are to thank for this dance and our opportunity to express it in our bodies. At the same time, we believe in learning through experience and experimentation, so expect a LOT of getting up and dancing in our classes.
Although we dance a lot of freestyle, we specialize in Blues Idiom dancing and have developed curricula around several idioms. We love community, and view this dance community as a family. Additionally, if people are interested in learning about running events with specific focii, or in starting up a practicum, we'd love to geek out about that, as well!
We both still dance various swing styles (mostly balboa and lindy hop), and spend a lot of our free time hiking with our greyhounds and rock climbing. We’ve been teaching swing and blues since 2009, but have been focusing on blues instruction since 2014. Krystal’s passion for the dance is apparent in her teaching style: upbeat, personal, encouraging, and energetic. Adam’s experience teaching math makes his style more analytical and minutiae-oriented. Together, we feel that we balance out as an effective partnership, keen to instruct any group, and our collective passion for the dance is evident in our classes.
We're passionate about teaching not only techniques of blues dance, but also in grounding that work in history. We start with the music and work from there in our lessons, but we also really enjoy digging deep on precise techniques. We love teaching Ballroomin', but we've got a real passion for Southern Blues, so Struttin' and Piedmont have a huge place in our hearts. Adam is from Mississippi originally, after all.
We're also passionate about people finding their own dance within Blues. We encourage doing so, while framing it as best we can in the hardships that the music and dance was borne from, both locally and when we travel. Locally, we host a biweekly practicum at our place where we work with dancers from our home scene on developing their own dance. They come from backgrounds ranging from dancing to hip-hop and Reggae to Lindy Hop, and we learn a lot from them as well.
Community is a key part to dancing.
On philosophy: We believe that blues dancing starts first with the music. There's rich, long history there, and those that make the music are to thank for this dance and our opportunity to express it in our bodies. At the same time, we believe in learning through experience and experimentation, so expect a LOT of getting up and dancing in our classes.
Although we dance a lot of freestyle, we specialize in Blues Idiom dancing and have developed curricula around several idioms. We love community, and view this dance community as a family. Additionally, if people are interested in learning about running events with specific focii, or in starting up a practicum, we'd love to geek out about that, as well!
