Swing Dance is a fun, playful partnered dance that grew from its roots in the ballrooms of Harlem in the 1920's to its current status as a popular, original American social dance. Its many styles and forms reflect its colorful history of development across the country and through several eras. Our classes focus on Lindy Hop, the original form danced in Harlem, and East Coast (6-count) Swing, which today is the most prevalent form and the most adaptable to different swing music styles including Big Band, Jump Blues, early Rock'n'Roll, Cajun, Contra (embellishments), Country Western and more. For you as a social dancer, we want you to attain the ability to go out on the social dance floor with comfort and confidence, to enjoy the dance with any number of different partners, and to have a great time. We focus our classes not only on learning lots of fun moves, but also on building strong social lead-&-follow skills, learning good movement and partnering techniques, styling, and dancing to the music.
 

Thursday Swing classes

Join us Thursdays for all levels of swing dance classes. New dancers are usually more comfortable starting on the first Thursday of each month, which focuses on the basics. The first half covers East Coast Swing beginning material: partner dance fundamentals, getting the basic  footwork, and fitting the footwork with moves and turns. The second half covers Lindy Hop beginning materials, Charleston kicking patterns, and basic 8-count turning figures. During the rest of the month, the first half of the evening is spent on East coast sequences, starting with the easier moves, then advancing to more difficult figures, The second half of each evening is Lindy Hop sequences in the same format: easier moves first followed by more difficult figures.

First Thursdays

Subsequent Thursdays

It's always best to pace yourself - you know how you learn best, whether it's lots of new information all at once, or a little at a time. The cost is the same, because you just pay once at the door and stay for as little or as much as you want! We recommend that if you're NOT ready to work at a particular level, feel free to sit and watch - but don't bite off more than you can chew! It ends up actually slowing down your learning process to try to get too much information in, and it's not fair to others who are truly ready to work at a more advanced level. (For example, if you still have to think hard about doing the basic footwork of Lindy Hop, the "Easy Lindy Hop" session will suit you fine and the "Ambitious East Coast" session is a great for Lindy-prep, but the "Ambitious Lindy Hop" may have to wait until that basic footwork comes more naturally.) Most of all, come prepared to have a good time and lots of fun dancing!!!
 

Late Night Swing Dance

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