DR12 Full 9 Days
Festival Program
DR12 Catamaran 1 day is the most beautiful and desirable dance experience in the whole world. DR12 Santo Domingo 4 days has 20 workshop hours, 12 Dominican instructors and every night barrio parties and concerts in different clubs. DR12 Ruta Bachata 4 days is a private bus to tour around the island to show the best bachata party places and to see the most famous bachata artists.
Focus and goal
We will teach you to dance like a Dominican and you will dance with Dominicans in their clubs around the island of DR. In order to be able to dance with Dominicans you need Authentic Bachata structure, common elements, stepping technics, musicality and cultural issues. Authentic Bachata is totally different than International Bachata, based on natural life long learning processes. It's certainly much more complicated, but feels so good with Dominicans.
Live Concerts and Special Parties
We have already published 6 live bands and we might end up in 8-9. In addition you'll get colmadon, car-wash, cabaret parties and a fancy done&dance party in the most prestige gourmet restaurant of Santo Domingo.
Totally different than all the other events in the world
DR12 does not have kizomba, international bachata or any other dance genres that dominicans don't listen&dance in their clubs. However Dominican Republic has the best Bachata music and dance. In addition you'll get the other Dominican music&dance genres like merengue, tipico, mambo, salsa, son and dembow. DR12 will not visit international resort hotels or the beaches meant just for tourists, because there is no Authentic Bachata. DR12 is committed to be 100% authentic dominican dance adventure made by Dominicans. While international participants of the other events dance just together in a resort hotel, we go every night to a different barrio club to dance with dominicans. While the congresses in the world tend to concentrate just on shows and randomly selected advanced footworking technics, we have highly advanced in-depth training of Authentic Bachata to make sure all the participants will learn to dance like a dominican. In addition to the excellent workshops, parties and concerts, DR12 is a Dance Adveture to see the cities, barrios, countryside, rivers, catamaran, colmadonm car-wash, cabaret and everything related on how Dominicans have Bachata Fun.
Where we meet, accommodate and get started ?
Festival dates are Dec 10-18, but your flight and accommodation should be Dec 9-19. The Pre-Registration is at the Hotel Palacio 6PM and at the Antiguo Hotel Europa 6:30PM on Sunday Dec 9. There after we continue to see the mighty Grupo Bonye concert @ Ruins. The Catamaran Excursion will start 6:50AM from the lobby of Hotel Palacio and 7:00AM from the lobby of Antiguo Hotel Europa on Monday Dec 10. The registration for workshops start 9:30AM on Tuesday Dec 11 in Trovas Tapas Bar. The Ruta bus returns back to Zona Colonial about 2-3pm on Tuesday Dec 19.
DR12 preliminary workshops, first 5 days and last 4 days
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