NEW this year! Solo Jazz beginner level!
Mondays at 6:15pm at EDAM, 303 east 8th.
Next series starts March 27 with Solo Jazz Basics.
Click the link above for info and to register.
Once you’ve completed the material from Intro to Swing to your satisfaction, you’re ready for Lindy Hop Essentials. This means you’re ready to get a whole lot more dancing in your Swing! At this point, you’ve learned most of the most commonly known basic Lindy hop steps and patterns, and it’s time to get them feeling more awesome (for you and your partner) at a wider range of tempos and with more variations.
Lindy Hop Essentials (Swing 3) students enjoy a discounted admission of $5 to the regular DJ'ed weekly dance, Rhythm City Strut. Subscribe to our youtube channel for practice/review/recap videos.
- $85 / $90 at the door (5 weeks)
- $50 limited subsidized access available for low incomes
- All prices include GST
- Mask-wearing is encouraged, though not required, so please be considerate of others’ decision to mask or not, and be prepared to put on a mask as a courtesy to your dance partner if they request it.
Location:
iDance Studio, 257 East 7th Avenue, 7:45-8:45pm
We usually advocate rotating in our classes, because it is a helpful learning tool, and because it helps to establish and nurture a community of positive students sharing in a group learning environment. Our priority is a community of Swing dancers who mix, mingle, and participate in a joyful dance scene. However, due to health and safety concerns, you may prefer to remain with only one or two partners throughout a class and/or dance. You can indicate your preference when you register and/or at class.
Swing 3: Lindy Hop Essentials
Swing 3 is where we mix and match all the prior Swing series material, add a few more, and increase your comfort with a wider range of tempos. We also add some variations on moves you already know and love, to further enrich your social dancing vocabulary and your understanding of connecting with the music and a partner.
Connect the moves you learned in prior Swing series in a more swinging and flowing way and add on with some more complex moves, variations, and solo dancing. Lindy hop, as a partnered dance, often incorporates “breaking away” from your partner for open solo play and dancing. Learn and practice how to make this a comfortable and rhythmical part of your partner connection.
The Swing 3 program (A, B, & C) is 3 five-week series that can be taken in any order.
- Mondays 7:45-8:45pm at iDance Studio, 257 East 7th Avenue
- Swing 3 - C: March 20 to April 24 (no class April 10)
- Swing 3 - A: May 1 to June 5
Register!
Swing 3 - Lindy Hop Essentials - C
Swing 3 - Lindy Hop Essentials - A
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Happy Swing dancers! Photo by Chris Loh.