Welcome to the Swing Community! The Swing dance community is a wonderful group of people who just love meeting new people and moving to some great music.

In this class we will learn all the basic steps, connections and turns to make you confident on the social dance floor. Class is welcome to all levels. We will start at the beginning. If you are completely new to dance, or if you have danced as a follow or lead but want to learn from the beginning in the alternate role, then come dance with us!

Prerequisites: NONE

Do you feel stuck in your dance and don't know how to improve? In this fun drop-in series we will show you the next steps! We will cover difficult moves, how to improvise and invent new moves, moving beyond basic footwork and more!

Prerequisites: Swing 1, 2, and basic Charleston

In this class, we will build on the basics to add more style and variety to your social dancing.

We will learn how to adjust to the speed and feel of the music, how to better connect with our dance partners, and add some improvisation to our dancing. Building on what was learned in Intro to Swing, we will begin to learn the traditional lindy hops steps including Breakaways, Circles and partnered Charleston.

Prerequisites: Intro to Swing

The swing dance community is full of many different styles of dance that can be done to classic big band jazz music. The Charleston is a wonderful dance style that can be done solo or partnered.

In this series, we will learn the fundamentals of solo Charleston including 20s and 30s style variations. Any steps learned in this class can easily be incorporated into your social dancing, either with a partner or solo jazz circles.

This class is perfect for any level of dancer. We will begin at the basics, learning the fundamentals of the rhythm and bounce that make this dance special. If you are a complete beginner, or if you are working to improve your Lindy hop and style, then learning solo Charleston is perfect for you.

Prerequisites: NONE

This intro to Balboa class is perfect for those with no Balboa experience, or if you wish to review basic principles and figures of this dance.

Balboa is a partnered swing dance from the 1930s, particularly from the beach-side resort Balboa in Southern California. Because of crowded dance floors with rules prohibiting the larger and more exuberant Charleston style dance, Balboa was formed to take up very little space. Can be danced to quick tempos similar to fast Lindy or Charleston.

We will introduce you to the fundamental movements, technique and figures of Pure Balboa and Bal-Swing to get you out on the social dance floor.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of 6 and 8 count swing and basic partnered dance connections. (Intro to swing)

Balboa is a beautiful dance that's wrapped in close, done with small, graceful shuffles, steps, and turns. It was another popular form of swing in the 30's and 40's, named for Balboa Island on the California coast.

In this series, expanding from what we learned on Balboa 1, you will learn the foundation movements of the dance - enough moves to dance a whole song. Vocabulary includes Lollies, Turns, Toss-outs, In and Outs, and classic Bal-Swing patterns.

Prerequisites: Balboa 1

This class is great for complete beginners to this style of dance or those who may have had a small taste at some point and want to go over basics.

Collegiate Shag (or ""Shag"") is believed to have originated from the Black community in the southern U.S. in the 1920s-1930s (possibly the Carolinas or New Orleans). It gained the descriptor ""Collegiate"" later on (1930s-1940s) as a way to describe who was dancing it (college students) or how it was danced (with the ""energy/flashiness of college students""). This is danced to snappier, upbeat tempos similar to Balboa, fast Lindy, and Charleston.

This will be an introduction to the dance form, with particular focus on the fundamentals, technique, and basic moves to be comfortable enough to get out on the social dance floor.

Prerequisites: None

In this class, we will learn the classic swing dance routine, The Tranky Doo!
This dance is learned by many swing dancers and is often danced at social dances similar to the Shim Sham!

In addition to learning this fun routine, we will break down some of the solo jazz dance steps in the dance, increasing your solo jazz dance vocabulary.

Prerequisites: Shim-sham or related solo jazz experience required. Moves from the shim sham should be known before learning the Tranky Doo. If you do not know the Shim Sham you may take this class if you are up for the challenge and a faster paced class!