Class Descriptions
The Swing Dance for Life offers several instructional opportunities including:
- All Levels Workshop Classes - with fun, interesting material that will challenge beginners and experienced dancers alike
- Intermediate/Advanced Workshop Classes - for intermediate+ students who are ready to push their dancing up a notch
- Swing Clinic - get 1:1 help with your dancing from our resident Swing Doctors
- Beginning Swing Lesson -- for absolute beginners, right before the dance party starts!
All Levels Classes
| Time | Class/Instructors | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Connection Ken & Jen |
Make your dancing feel great in addition to looking good. Ken and Jen will cover frame exercises, matching leader and follower tension, using momentum, body leading & following, and selecting a sequence of moves to improve flow of your dancing. |
| 2:30pm | 20s Charleston to 30s Balboa Burnie |
Learn the basics of 20's partner charleston & progress quickly with transitions back and forth into 30's Balboa! |
| 4:00pm | He goes - She Goes Autumn & Heidi |
Think all lead and follow is just as simple as he goes and then she goes? Well, think again. Autumn and Heidi will show you some tricks to leading and following that will have you creating more interesting combinations: He goes, but she stays, and then he goes again; she goes, then he goes, then he stays, then she goes….the possibilities are endless! |
| 5:30pm | Musicality Nathan & Audrey |
Dancing isn't just about doing whiz-bang move-after-move-after-move. It's also about moving as one in tune with your partner and the music. In this class, we'll quiet down our dancing by actually subtracting from and simplifying our basics, so that we can open up space for both partners to play with the connection, dynamics and rhythm...and also give ourselves room for the amazing, unplanned and musically inspired to occur! |
Intermediate/Advanced Classes
| Time | Class/Instructors | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Swing Rueda Trevor & Andrea |
Swing Rueda is an exciting, very social, group lindy swing dance! It's danced in a circle with two or more couples. A dancer calls moves out which the entire circle executes in unison, as the follows travel around the circle dancing one or more moves with each lead. Get ready for a lot of moves and a lot of fun. Knowledge of Lindy basics is required: swing out, circle, outside and inside turns, texas-tommy, etc. |
| 2:30pm | Spicy Styling & Syncopations Eddie & Yon |
Tired of running through your basics? Add some spice to them by adding a little extra pep. This class will focus on moving your footwork and styling beyond triple steps and familiar body patterns. |
| 4:00pm | We be Jammin'! Jean & Bromley |
With Jean & Bromley's help, you will be pumping out a few mini routines that will help you tackle those exciting jam circles. Not only will we be teaching a few gems that you can put in your routine, but we will also be providing the forum to help you get comfortable with bringing the energy that each of you possess and letting it take over in a jam circle. |
| 5:30pm | Off Hand Leads Kelli & Rye |
Venture to the side of your lead and follow that may be a little awkward... off hand leads. Kelli & Rye will teach you fun and challenging lead and follow moves to use when you end up with the "other hand". |
Swing Clinic (1-7pm)
Get 1:1 help with your lindy hop and swing dancing from one of our resident Swing Doctors!Get a personal consultation for whatever ails your dancing, where you can dance with an instructor and get individual help and answers to your specific dance questions. Nathan & Audrey will head up our rotating triage team, providing 15-minute individual appointments.
[Top]Beginning Swing Dance Lesson (8:30-9pm)
This 30-minute class is designed for the absolute beginner with no previous dance experience. Nathan & Audrey will start from scratch, cover partner dance fundamentals and introduce simple but fun swing steps to get you out on the dance floor and grooving to the music...just in time to enjoy the Saturday night dance party!
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