General

A few photos from this year’s Performance Ball.  Full sets are on our Facebook page:   Mark Hart Photography Pav  

We had such a blast at our Blues DJ workshop with Anna and Chris.   We hope to continue your DJ journey with some dedicated Blues DJ socials where you can flex your new skills.    

Back at our favourite outdoor dancing – Spitalfields!  Here’s a small snapshot of our dancers – full album available here.   Photos by photographypav

Here’s some wonderful photos of our lovely classes from this year’s Meet Our Scene ball!

We had a fabulous workshop in Birmingham with Jenny & Scott hosted by the amazing Swing Era.

Look at all our lovely new dancers!   Here’s our gallery of our Learn to Dance in a Day workshops of 2026 starting their new Swing Dance journey.   If you would like to join them, have a look at all our beginner workshops here.

Regular blues dancer, Dalvinder, has written about blues dancing and kindly shared it with us: 1) Dance to some awesome music… Muddy Waters, Irma Thomas and Etta James are just some of the artists you might hear when you dance the blues. Whether it’s a just one man and his guitar or a singer backed […]

Swing dancer extraordinaire Frankie Manning was a leading dancer at Harlem’s legendary Savoy Ballroom where in the mid-1930s, he revolutionised the course of the lindy hop with his innovations, including the air step. As a featured dancer and chief choreographer for the spectacular Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, he performed in numerous films (including Hellzapoppin’ (1941)), and […]

Safer dance spaces are important to us at Stompin’ the Blues and at Blues at the Ritzy. We value the safety and comfort of dancers, musicians and guests in our spaces above all else. As part of Swing Patrol, both events adhere to the Swing Patrol Code of Conduct. As described in the Code of […]

After a difficult time for us all, we were finally able to return to dancing and we kicked it all off with one our favourite events – swinging outside at Spitalfields Market.

Swing Patrol is committed to the development of a sustainable future. We recognise that climate justice is social justice, and that our everyday actions are inextricably linked to both. We are taking conscious steps to reduce our dance community’s and our company’s waste and carbon footprints. We acknowledge that if we want to keep swinging […]