Sunday – 12th May
Cotton End – all welcome
11:30am-1:30pm
No experience necessary
If you dance another style this is a perfect way to begin your Tango journey – particularly suited to Blues, Swing & Balboa dancers
Learn more of this highly connected highly musical, sensuous & dramatic dance.
Workshop is £20 per person
Book on as a couple (one lead and one follow) for £35
Email [email protected] to book
Cotton End Village Hall
The Playing Fields
Cotton end
Bedford
MK45 3AU
This is the exact location:
https://w3w.co/meanders.pavilions.seasick
Jump Blues Workshop
Saturday 25th May – Cotton End
3:30-5pm – all welcome
Suitable for all
Get down with us and learn to dance to up-tempo Blues – smokin’!!
Please book on as one lead and one follow so we can keep the workshop balanced.
Bookings close the day before the workshop
£20pp or £35 for a lead/follow couple
If you do both Saturday workshops it’s £35pp
Email [email protected] to book
Cotton End Village Hall
The Playing Fields
Cotton end
Bedford
MK45 3AU
Https://w3w.co/lightly.space.myths
Saturday 25th May – Cotton End
5:30-7pm
Suitable for all
Dips and tricks to enhance your dance – fixed partners.
Bookings close the day before the workshop
£20pp or £35 for a lead/follow couple
If you do both Saturday workshops it’s £35pp
Email [email protected] to book
Cotton End Village Hall
The Playing Fields
Cotton End
Bedford
MK45 3AU
Https://w3w.co/lightly.space.myths
Balboa Workshop
Sunday 26th May
11am-1pm
Learn this beautiful smooth & connected Californian swing dance, perfect for the Tea Dance later in the afternoon!
Workshop is £20 per person
Book on as a couple (one lead and one follow) for £35
Email [email protected] to book
Lincolnsfield Centre Bushey
Bushey Hall Drive
Bushey
Hertfordshire
WD23 2ES
World Lindy Hop Day Shim Sham Workshop
Sunday 26th May
1pm-2pm
Frankie Manning Shim Sham Workshop 1-2pm
Calling all Swing Dancers to Learn and Dance the Shim Sham!
This year marks 110 years since the birth and 15 years since the death of Frankie Manning. We will be filming and posting a Shim Sham flashmob on Sunday, May 26, (2024) at the Swing/Jive/Ballroom Tea Dance at the Lincolnsfield Centre, Bushey for World Lindy Hop Day 2024. 1pm-2pm Learn the Shim Sham £15p.p. and then dance with us at 3.30pm as part of the Flashmob – already know it? – Mr Musicality will be there to give you stunning upgrades on everything! Bookings in advance at [email protected]
Swingsters is delighted to be a part of this piece of history.
Workshop is £15 per person
Email [email protected] to book
Lincolnsfield Centre Bushey
Bushey Hall Drive
Bushey
Hertfordshire
WD23 2ES
Blues meets Tango Workshop
Saturday – TBC – Cotton End
5-7pm
Blues meets Tango Workshop 5-7pm – All welcome
A “best of both worlds” fusion of Authentic Blues and Argentine Tango.
Suitable for all Swing Blues and Tango dancers
Why not stay and practice your new skills to The Untouchables?
£20pp – if you do both workshops it’s £35
Email [email protected] to book
Bookings close the day before the workshop
Cotton End Village Hall
The Playing Fields
Cotton End
Bedford
MK45 3AU
https://w3w.co/lightly.space.myths
Collegiate Shag Workshop
Saturday – TBC – Cotton Club – all welcome
2:45-4:45pm
A wonderful fun swing dance style with great energy
Use what you learn in the workshop at the dance in the evening
What’s different about the way we teach this dance?
Accurate rhythm, cool stylings
Lead + follow that actually works in the real world
£20pp
Book on as a couple (one lead and one follow) for £35
Email [email protected] to book
Cotton End Village Hall
The Playing Fields
Cotton end
Bedford
MK45 3AU
This is the exact location:
https://w3w.co/meanders.pavilions.seasick
Progress your Dancing
To progress your dancing you will need intensive, quality tuition. A workshop of this kind has scope far beyond what is possible on a social night out.
We provide workshops that feature a variety of different teaching methods that enable you to better understand and perform your chosen dance style. Each workshop is carefully balanced to provide you with the right amount of instructor feedback, and personal attention.
Combining elements of lead / follow technique, musicality, body movement, improvisation and creativity a Swingsters workshop will propel you towards your next dance goal.
With the right technical and artistic grounding, the rest is up to you! We teach at our own venues, at national dance events, corporate and private functions, and for other dance schools and organisations. We teach a range of authentic dances including but not limited to:
- Lindy Hop
- 1920’s Charleston
- Authentic Jazz
- Balboa
- Collegiate Shag
- Authentic Blues
- Jitterbug
- Boogie Woogie
- Rock ‘n Roll
- Peabody
- Argentine Tango
- Ballroom