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London Takes on ILHC… and Wins!!!

Over the August Bank Holiday weekend a fabulous team of UK dancers competed at the 2015 International Lindy Hop Championships in the USA. They achieved some great results and we couldn’t be more proud. Here’s a full run-down of all the UK results, plus video links! Place getters Team: Motley Crew – Cam Mitchell, Cat Foley, Simon […]

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Swing Patrol in the Argus: Dragons’ Den success story swings in to city

Dragons’ Den success story swings in to city A DANCE school which received backing from BBC’s Dragons’ Den is coming to Brighton. Swing Patrol hit the television screens back in 2014 when business legend Deborah Meaden decided to invest £65,000 into the the business. Three years later and Swing Patrol Brighton is launching on September 4 […]

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Lindy Hop – Teaching Beyond the Steps

TEACHING LINDY HOP WITH CULTURAL AWARENESS This is an opportunity to improve how we integrate Swing dance, music history, and culture into our teaching. “This mentoring programme is designed for teachers, organisers, and communities who want to move beyond simply teaching steps and to create deeper, more connected learning environments. Together, we will explore musicality, […]

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Christmas Holiday Dates

Most of our venues are taking a short break over the festive season – but don’t worry, they’ll be back next year! Click here to find out what your venue is doing.

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Message from a dancer

We received a lovely message from a dancer in the UK, we were very moved by it and wanted to share it with our community with Louise’s kind permission: Hi Scott, I just wanted to thank you for your swing dance book. My mum has severe Alzheimer’s and last week I sat with her and […]

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Performance Ball – In motion

Thanks to all of you who sent us film clips of this year’s Performance Ball. We’ve made a list of them by venue – and found some more on youtube. We’re still missing a couple of venues though, so if you have any footage which isn’t on here, please do send it to us. We’d […]

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Audition for the Skyliners **applications now closed**

Want to work with a highly dedicated group of high level dancers? Skyliners is a troupe focusing completely on social dancing. We get together weekly to work on technique, vocabulary, rhythm, posture, connection and creativity! We’re looking for new members to join our lovely crew. Who are the Skyliners? This is a higher level learning […]