Urban Styles
Dynamic, Energy & Fun

Urban styles is a street dance class with a mix of funk, hip hop, ragga and jazz. That brings you some of the latest moves on the dance floor from N.Y. to London.
Musical interpretation and dance movements are most important. There is a warm-up at the beginning of the class to get the body to move more freely and a cool-down phase at the end to relax the body. Inbetween we learn a set of small combinations, which will be demonstrated and explained slowly.

All technical stuff is put into an easy-to-follow choreography at the beginner's level. And more challenging physically and technically at the advanced level. It will give you a sense of performance anyway. And whatever your level the aim of the class is on dynamic energy and fun.



Russell Adamson
Russell Leon Adamson was born in Jamaica and moved to England with his family at the age of 10. At Gloucester City College where he attained 3 city and guild certificates in electronics and engineering. His athletic abilities took him to Gloucester Youth Gymnastics team, amateur boxing, thai boxing. He holds black belt status in various martial arts techniques. With this physical background he was granted 4-year scholarship at London School of Contemporary Dance. At the same he took classes in classical ballet at Central School of Ballet London.
He studied Ballet with Marian Lane and Laura Conners of the Royal Ballet School and Company, England, and Jazz with Deirda Lowell and Wayne Babeist (Alvin Ailey Company), Daniela Lorenz (Matt Mattox Company), Charles Augins (USA) and also Claude Paul Henry (London) and Max Stone (New York).
He also studied modern with Bill Louther (Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey Company), Carolyn Carson and Jorma Uotinen (Helsinki City Theatre, Finland), Viola Farber from the Merce Cunningham Company, Jane Dudly and Robert Cohan from the Martha Graham Company.
Russell Adamson is quite an innovative teacher, motivating his students to concentrate on their work, so they can do more than they thought. With his support many young dancers have chosen dance as their profession. He has also done many choreographies, which has been giving a lot of recognition in Finland and abroad.
During the last years he has worked as a performer a.o. for the National Ballet of Estonia, the Gala for the 6th International Baltic Ballet Festival, Riga, Litauen and for Marimekkos 50th birthday (2001 - 2004). He has worked with the Black Dance Festival in Vienna (2002 & 2003) and the Estonia Art and Culture Gala Night in Tallinn (2004).