Learn to swing dance with our new weekly beginners classes!

These fun and friendly classes will teach you the fundamentals of lindy hop. You'll learn the basic steps and footwork as well as some of the core moves and variation which make up this wonderful dance. After the class there is a social in the bar downstairs, so you can try out some of your new moves (included in the price of the class).

You can start any week, but we tend to theme the classes each month - so starting in the first week of a month mean you can get the most out of the classes. You don't need to bring a partner, as during the class we will rotate students so everyone has the chance to dance with each other. Wear something comfortable and shoes that have a little bit of slide in them so you can turn and move.

What is swing dancing / lindy hop? In late 1920’s America, when ragtime/jazz music of the time started to swing, the kids began to groove to this infectious new rhythm, and swing dancing was born! ‘Swing Dance’ is an umbrella term for any style danced to swing music - the most well-known of which is the Lindy Hop. Originating in Harlem, New York from predominantly African-American dancers, the Lindy Hop quickly spread across the world during WW2. It’s popularity decreased from the 1950s with the rise of rock’n’roll, although there were communities that kept dancing all through to today. The popularity grew again in the 1980's when a handful of dancers found some old video clips, tracked down the original dancers to ask to be taught the moves they had seen, and bought the dance back to their home countries. Nowadays it’s danced all over the world, with most major cities having their own scenes and international events.