Jive - Basic variations for advanced social dancing

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  • One couple
  • One individual follower
  • 5 individual leaders
With this 2 couples are possible in total, but at least 5 couples are needed.
Level

Intermediate

Styles

Latein

Teachers

Christoph Hellings

Room
ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon

Costs

10.00 CHF for students, otherwise 20.00 CHF

Time
Mon, 16. Feb., 19:00 - 20:15

Description

The basic elements of the Jive give a lot of room for flexibility and creativity. We will explore, e.g., kicks, taps, and variations of step patterns, and see how to use them in advanced social dancing. While some of these variations can be led, others work no matter whether the partner adopts the same variation or not. This leads to an interesting new form of dialog in the couple and additional fun in your jive.

Prerequisites: Dancing experience approximately at the level of Ballroom 6, but if you have done Ballroom 4 and are quick at learning new movements, it's fine as well.

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03. Feb. 2026, 20:52 Open Level Winter Special: Paso Doble with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris is just the best!
30. Jan. 2026, 20:36 Advanced Ballroom Training - Standard with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, ASVZ Arena 3
Chris‘s course is very well structured, starting with the basic theory and building upon it. There‘s a perfecr combination of theoretical inputs and time to practice; my dance partner and I really notice a big improvement from our side thanks to his inputs!
27. Jan. 2026, 16:23 Polka with Christoph Hellings, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
A lot of fun and very quick to learn, though the polka was hard on my poor feet... ;)
22. Jan. 2026, 15:13 Cha Cha New Yorker Variations with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris is a very skilled dancer and explains precisely, I can really recommend him as a teacher!
21. Jan. 2026, 10:41 Cha Cha New Yorker Variations with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris is really good at explaining technique and styling. I really loved the Chacha Workshop with him!
02. Jan. 2026, 16:43 Ballroom Open Level with Aischa Amrhein & Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Oh, open level with Chris and Aisha is one of my favorite courses! They are also giving enough technique. This time we also did some slowfox, and it definitively increased my self confidence in this dance.
19. Dec. 2025, 09:48 Ballroom Open Level with Aischa Amrhein & Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Open Level is becoming one of my favorite TQ courses and Chris was an amazing teacher as always :)
13. Aug. 2025, 22:59 Open Level Summer Special: Paso Doble with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
This course helped me to finally bring my Paso Doble to the next level. Thanks to it I managed to get away from boring in-place steps and towards a dynamic movement through the room. Already looking forward to the next time I get to dance Paso Doble :D
12. Aug. 2025, 09:18 Viennese Waltz Advanced Figures with Lukas Lätsch & Christoph Hellings, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Great workshop to learn new figures as well as improve your basics. Chris and Lukas are both very knowledgeable about Standard dances and provided very helpful inputs as well as 1:1 feedback.
19. July 2025, 10:07 Basic Line Figures in Standard Ballroom Dances with Lukas Lätsch & Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Der Kurs hatte ein Interessantes Thema, super um das Tanzen abwechslungsreicher zu gestalten. Chris und Lukas unterrichten anschaulich, und erklären präzise aber verständlich, was sie machen. Ich komme gerne wieder in einen Kurs von den beiden.
28. May 2025, 16:18 Show Group with Christoph Hellings & Melody Greminger, Room: Hönggerberg, HXE
Es hat sehr viel Spass gemacht, an so einem grossen Projekt mitzuwirken! Danke Melody und Chris!
11. Feb. 2025, 08:25 Slowfox Advanced with Christoph Hellings, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Can only recommend! Great course for learning some new figures and technique in Slowfox!
09. Jan. 2025, 18:40 Slowfox Crash Course with Daniel Sparber & Christoph Hellings, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
They explained it very well so that it was straightforward to learn Slow fox.
05. Jan. 2025, 23:26 Ballroom Open Level with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
War super! Hab wieder mal viel gelernt :)
31. July 2024, 07:29 Paso Doble Choreography Workshop with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Toller Kurs. Für alle mit oder ohne Vorerfahrung in Paso Doble empfehlenswert.
30. July 2024, 17:14 Slowfox Basic Technique Workshop with Christoph Hellings, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Always love a workshop with Chris :)
27. July 2024, 09:45 Paso Doble Choreography Workshop with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Great course. Build up the choreo bit-by-bit, making it easy to follow. Well-paced progression from dry practice to dancing through the entire combination learnt so far.
03. June 2024, 18:48 Ballroom Open Level with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
In diesem Kurs habe ich diverse neue Figuren und Variationen von Figuren, die ich schon kannte, gelernt. Chris ist hervorragend im Erklären der Figuren, ich habe viel gelernt. Gerne wieder!
16. April 2024, 23:10 Ballroom Open Level with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
As always, Chris presents interesting material that fits well to the groups abilities. It’s awesome to have this kind of advanced courses, which (together with the technique trainings on Fridays) create this group of dancers who want to improve together.
16. April 2024, 13:14 Ballroom Training - Basic with Daniel Sparber & Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, ASVZ Arena 3
Great course. Thank you for all the technique tips, they are worth a lot!
20. Feb. 2024, 20:08 Quickstep Basic Jumping Figures with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris gestaltet seine Kurse und Workshops immer so lehrreich und gleichzeitig so spaßig.
19. Feb. 2024, 11:08 Quickstep Basic Jumping Figures with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
The Quickstep course was super fun, we learned a good amount of figures and had time to practice them. We also learned a bit about the 'character' of the dance.
12. Feb. 2024, 09:02 Cha Cha New Yorker Variations with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris does a very good job at explaining difficult figures/variations by first teaching more simple versions to then make it easier to learn the juicy stuff.
09. Feb. 2024, 10:01 Cha Cha New Yorker Variations with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
I enjoyed this course, we looked as many variations that we’ll be able to use during the open dancing.
09. Feb. 2024, 09:41 Cha Cha New Yorker Variations with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris is a great teacher & finds the perfect balance between technique that you need, fun figures and challenges!
07. Feb. 2024, 15:59 Polka with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Very nice introduction to Polka, in particular for everyone who joined the trip to Vienna where we could dance quite a few Polkas.
10. Jan. 2024, 18:08 Polka with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Chris hat ein grosses Theoriewissen und streut es in guten Maße in seine Kurse ein. Nicht zu viel, nicht zu wenig, gerade genug dass es interessant ist, man nicht nur die Schritte lernt, sondern auch lernt wie sie zusammen spielen sollen, und was sich auf andere Tänze übertragen lässt.
14. Dec. 2023, 12:28 Ballroom Open Level with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
Great and fun course, just the right amount of technique, variations of figures and music to practice.
27. Oct. 2023, 15:04 Ballroom Open Level with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
The dance course strikes the perfect balance between reviewing figures, improving technique and focusing on the variety that ballroom dancing has to offer. I greatly enjoyed every session of the course & look forward to the next course! Chris is an excellent teacher!
27. Oct. 2023, 14:52 Ballroom Open Level with Christoph Hellings, Room: Hönggerberg, Raum der Stille
This is a fantastic course, I have learned so much, particularly how figures can be combined, when they can be danced, and how to dance them well. I also really enjoyed the explanations of concepts like swing and different energies of the steps within figures. Chris brings so much positive energy and happiness to his classes, which makes it even more enjoyable to learn and improve. There was also lots of individual feedback and input from the class.
05. July 2023, 22:15 Paso & Samba with Christoph Hellings & Daniel Sparber, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Wonderful teachers, lots to learn and a great, joyful atmosphere. Can recommend!
04. July 2023, 00:58 Paso & Samba with Christoph Hellings & Daniel Sparber, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Ein toller Workshop der wirklich Freude an Samba und Paso Doble aufkommen hat lassen. Chris und Daniel sind tolle Lehrer
30. June 2023, 13:32 Paso & Samba with Christoph Hellings & Daniel Sparber, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Bester Kurs, den ich bis jetzt beim TQ besucht habe und das waren sicher 10!
27. June 2023, 19:14 Paso & Samba with Christoph Hellings & Daniel Sparber, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Great teachers!
27. June 2023, 18:35 Paso & Samba with Christoph Hellings & Daniel Sparber, Room: ETH Zentrum, Alumni-Pavillon
Amazing teachers :) they explained everything very well and in a fun way and we learned lots of great figures that complement the Social/Ballroom program.