• Contagious disease policy (modified on February 26th 2023):
    1) Please stay home if you’re sick.  We’ll make sure you get any class content you miss.
    2) All of our events are now mask optional.

About Our Classes

Locations (here’s a map of our venues)

On Fridays and Sundays: Dance Victoria at 2750 Quadra Street, just north of Hillside.
On Tuesdays: Saint Matthias Anglican Church at 600 Richmond Ave, at the corner of Richardson Street.
On Wednesdays: City Light Church at 550 Obed Ave, west of Tillicum Road.

Course descriptions

Our Swing Series takes you from absolute beginner to well-rounded swing dancer. You’ll have a ton of fun along the way!

How they work:

  • Start at Swing 1, work your way up. 🙂
  • There are a few branching points along the way. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys a flowchart, you’re in luck! If you aren’t, you might want to avoid that last link.
  • All of our classes are taught by two instructors, one for each role.
  • One lesson per week, each lesson is an hour and a half long.
  • Please sign up in advance because class sizes are limited.
  • If you miss any lessons during a session, you can make them up in a later session of the same level. You paid for a full series, so you get a full series.
  • After a series finishes, it will almost always be followed by the next level up. (ie If Swing 1 is at 5:30pm on Sundays, it will usually be followed by a Swing 2 at 5:30pm on Sundays.)
  • No partner is necessary – it’s our job to make sure your series has a balanced role ratio. (We tend to get pretty similar quantities of both roles by default; swing dancing is appealing to most everybody!)

Swing 1 (six lessons)

  • No experience needed – this is our beginner series, after all.
  • This is the ideal class to learn to dance with anyone and adapt to new partners with ease. Having fun on the dance floor is the name of the game. You’ll learn a wide variety of moves, techniques, and fun tricks!

Swing 2 (six lessons, Lindy Hop or Charleston)

  • Prerequisite: Swing 1 or instructor permission
  • This is the first branching point mentioned above. We have a Swing 2 Lindy Hop track as well as a Swing 2 Charleston track.  Our usual recommendation is to make sure you’re going into Charleston with some zoomies. 🙂
  • Expand your repertoire of moves and learn more advanced techniques to give you options on the dance floor.

Swing 3 (six lessons, Lindy Hop, Charleston, or Shag)

  • Swing 3 Lindy Hop Prerequisite: Swing 2 Lindy Hop or instructor permission
  • Add classic Lindy Hop to your swing repertoire! We’ll work on your basics, expand them with fun moves, and provide you with powerful techniques for leading and following. This is also where you’ll learn the Shim Sham and get an introduction to Balboa.
  • Swing 3 Charleston or Shag 3 Prerequisite: Swing 2 Charleston or instructor permission
  • More zoomies!  You can continue to broaden your Charleston horizons or begin to pick up Collegiate Shag.

Swing 4 (six lessons, Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa, Shag, or Solo)

  • Prerequisite for Lindy Hop 4, Balboa 4, or Solo 4: Lindy Hop 3, or instructor permission
  • Lindy Hop 4 supplies you with the techniques and styling to make your Lindy pop. Footwork variations, new ways to do swingouts, musicality… a Jedi craves these things.
  • If you were intrigued by the introduction to Balboa that we taught in Swing 3 Lindy Hop, Swing 4 Balboa is the proper beginning to your journey into this smooth dance style.
  • Swing 4 Solo Dancing teaches you another solo routine called the Trankie Doo, similar to the Shim Sham in Lindy 3.  We’ll also teach you solo improv as well as some fun group solo dancing options.
  • Prerequisite for Charleston 4 or Shag 4: Charleston 3 or Shag 3, or instructor permission
  • The Charleston 4 track takes all the muppety goodness of Swing 3 Charleston and expands it into a whole new level of felt-bodied insanity.
  • Shag 4 builds on the foundation you learned in Swing 3 Shag.  More moves, techniques, and variations!

Swing 5 (six lessons, Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa, Shag, or Solo)

  • Prerequisite: corresponding Swing 4 or instructor permission
  • Swing 5 is our continuous-learning, top-level class with a different topic every time.  The content is always different, always fun, and provides you with an avenue to take your dancing as far as you want to go.

Prices & Discounts

Credit, Debit, Cash will all play!

  • Price per person: $135
  • Discounts: students save $25; repeating the same class (level and track) saves $40 (except Swing 5)
  • There are no taxes on top of our prices. That math is our problem, not yours.

If you’re all set to take some lessons, let us know you’re coming with our class registration page!  Otherwise, if you need more info or have any questions, just get in touch with us and we’ll be happy to help you out.  🙂

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