Why You Should Learn To Lindy Hop

Beginner Lesson Plans

September's Movement Possibilities, focusing on:

• Sway
• Swingout
• Basic
• Send Back
• Follow Inside Turn
• Follow Outside Turn
• Follow Free Turn
• Lead Inside Turn
• She goes - He goes Turn

These are the movements scheduled to get covered. My classes are ALWAYS taught at the pace of the students, so we may not get to all of the movements.

This series focuses on teaching the Basic Lindy Hop movement (a.k.a. the Swingout) and the fundamental, building-block movements used in Lindy Hop. Attention is given to defining your social dancing skills and enhancing your fun when dancing TO the music and dancing WITH your partner.  Each week you refine your Lead or Follow skills through fun, easily executable and improvisational movements.  You'll strengthen, naturally, the tools and framework YOU need to grow your fun of the dance.  With patience and practice, EVERY student will be comfortably dancing the basic Lindy Swingout at the end of the session.
If you've NEVER taken a dance lesson or if you've had East or West Coast Swing lessons, but not Lindy lessons, I recommend starting here.

The material in this series is similar to the FREE Friday night lessons, and greatly expands upon those concepts.

Intermediate Lesson Plans

August's Movement Possibilities, focusing on:

One & Two-Handed Movements
• Tuck Turn
• Follow to Jockey Position
• Tuck Turn Reverse
• Follow Barrelroll
• Barrelroll
• Stutter Step
• Follow Inside Turn
• Follow Outside Turn
• Follow Inside Turn

Classes are ALWAYS taught at the pace of the students in the first class of the series.

This month, the series works to bring more Connection - to help with your growing musicality. You'll learn the concepts of placing your weight to indicate your lead or follow, you'll learn how to avoid mishaps on a crowded dance floor, you'll open opportunities for stylization, and you'll get tools & tips to make to your partner smile.

Beginner Lesson Plans

September's Movement Possibilities, focusing on:

• Charleston
• Charleston Exit
• Charleston Variations
• Knee Bends
• Hip Pushouts

Classes are ALWAYS taught at the pace of the students who attend the first class of the series.

This series focuses on teaching the Charleston and several Charleston variations. As always, attention is given to defining your social dancing skills and enhancing your fun when dancing TO the music and dancing WITH your partner.  You'll discover that the movements taught in this series starts expanding your ideas of what can be "done" with Lindy. You discover that these movements are easily incorporated with other movements, and that you're not "stuck" doing them only when doing the Charleston.

If you're comfortable with the Lindy swingout and you are "aware" of a few other movements, this class is for you! This class is perfect for dancers who have taken several of the FREE Turnverein classes, but still feel somewhat intimidated. This is where you start exploring the fun of the dance!