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Audition for Club Stomp!

Club Stomp is Auditioning! Club Stomp is a developmental troupe focusing on partner dancing and performance. This is the perfect place to get to know other like minded dancers and work together to perform some fun lindy hop routines and work on core swing dancing elements as well as air steps and jams. If you’ve always wanted […]

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Swing at the Scoop!

Swing Patrol held two events at the Scoop in London Bridge in June and they were both awesome! Nothing like a bit of swing dancing by the river on a beautiful summer evening. We had taster classes where we got everyone up and dancing, not to mention amazing performances by our very own award winning […]

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Swing Patrol’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations!

Swing Patrol celebrated their 10th Birthday party on the evening of the 23rd February. The festivities kicked off with a taster class at 7pm with the amazing Nick & Susie. We then danced the night away until 2am to the sounds of our awesome vintage DJs Ben Cook, Christopher Allen and Vic Araullo Peters! And […]

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Scott’s pep talk and all the best to our team

Hey everyone, I am sending this to our Swing Patrol team in Sydney, Melbourne & London even though the focus is on our London team who are competing at Savoy Cup this weekend. Yes something very special happened last year (watch the four winning troupe routines here and the amazing Michaela, Tine and others in […]

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Swing Patrol in the Huffington Post

Swing Patrol were extremely flattered to be featured in an article on the Huffington Post blog, written by Dr Lucy Maddox – clinical psychologist, lecturer, writer and member of our very own performance troupe,  The Dinahs. In the article “The Psychology of Dancing at Festivals”,  Lucy talks about the psychological aspect of dancing at festivals. It’s a fascinating […]

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The Dinahs place first at ESDC!

For the past few weeks our all-girl performance troupe – the Dinahs – have been training hard for the Jazz Roots Team Division at the European Swing Dance Championships. They were the largest team by far and up against some really tough competition from Korea, Norway, Sweden and the USA to name but a few.  […]