For those of you who’ve been hanging out for the workshop details for the Winter Swing Festival – here they are, fresh from the hands of Noni and Jarrod!
Saturday Morning
Lindy Hop – Rhythms and Shapes
This workshop is about energising your social dancing, with a bunch of fun material utilising closed and open positions. Improvisation is at the heart of Black Dance and Jazz music, and here we will develop improvising skills by using accents and rhythms to add flavour and individuality to your social dancing. We will explore jazz music as a ‘conversation’ and how that idea can inform and inspire our Lindy Hop.
Saturday Afternoon
‘Hi Ya’ by Johnny Hodges
Get ready to ‘deep dive’ into a kickin’ jazz song with a little choreography inspired by one of the swing era’s jazz greats: saxophonist Johnny Hodges. This will be a mix of solo and partner content along with some improvising, where we add to your repertoire and explore styling, technique and music.
Sunday Morning
Momentum, flow and collaboration
In this more advanced workshop, we’re going to investigate some aspects of what Noni and Jarrod love about dancing together: momentum, flow and collaboration. Through momentum and flow, we will geek-out about the various ways we connect and collaborate in our social dancing.
Early bird pricing for the Winter Swing Festival expires soon! After June 11, prices will go up, so make sure you register before then to take advantage of the cheaper prices. Check out all the info here – 
Coming up on Sunday, June 6 at the Republic Bar and Café (upstairs), it’s time for Sweet, Sweet Swing again. Two hours of fantastic DJ music, and then why not stick around for dinner afterwards (half price main meals on Sundays!).
It’s almost time to start dancing again! The Wednesday night TasSwing classes at the Polish Hall are going to resume on Wednesday, February 3. As usual, Beginner Swingers will be kicking things off at 6:30pm, followed by the Building Blocks class at 7:30pm.
Thanks for dancing with us in 2020, but that’s all she wrote for the year, folks!
Did you know that when you take a TasSwing lesson for the very first time we’ll give you a free pass for your second class when you sign up to the newsletter? You can sign up in class, and then enjoy a second swing lesson on us!
Earlier this year three of our fabulous dancers, Michael, Ariadna an Liv led the iCharleston Hobart project and produced a fantastic video. We thought we should link it here so you can see it whenever you want!