Author: Shane

In the interests of spreading our love of Swing dancing, and getting even MORE people into this crazy dance we love so much, Swing It! is proud to announce the opening of our newest school…Swing It! Subiaco! Classes will be held at 1st Subiaco Scout Group Scout Hall, 399 Rokeby Road and will begin on...

The New Year’s Stomp is approaching fast as is the star of the evening, the NYS Jack & Jill! The Jack & Jill is open to everyone regardless of dance experience. Not only will it be a lot of fun but it’s free to enter and the prize is a BIGGY! All contestants enter as...

Wednesday 20th will see the arrival of a new teacher for Swing It!  I’m very excited to announce that Ruth Jeffery, one of the best Swing dancers Perth has ever seen, will be my teaching partner for Lindy 2 and Lindy 3.  Not only that but Ruth will be the new regular teacher for the...

Second last week of classes as we make our way to the Christmas break.  However nothing’s slowing down as we had a great night of Charleston AND Lindy Hop! Charleston Pt 1 Sharon’s first class for Swing It! kicked off sensationally as she led everyone through the basics of Charleston and into some flare and...

It’s not long now till the internationally renowned Jojo Jackson arrives on our sunny shores!  As previously advertised Swing It! will be holding a two day workshop of Jazz, Charleston and Lindy Hop starring the talented and lovely Jojo. Full details are now available so head on over to the Jazz Jam page for all...

As I’m sure you know, we’re going to be finishing the year off with some fantastic Charleston specialty classes taught by Sharon Davis, Perth’s undisputed number one in Charleston. As you may not know Sharon rolled her ankle and, we thought, wouldn’t be able to teach the classes (in fact they were briefly cancelled on...

Lots of excitement this time ’round with graduation upon us again! These Introductory courses just FLY by! Lindy 1 Well it was week 4 and the end of the course, indeed the end of the last course for 2006! We were back into our Swing Outs again but I’ll tell you the real treat…Swing Out...

Class reviews and info are still to come this week, writing deadlines have unfortunately kept me from the site.  However I wanted to make a special effort before leaving for the Mustang to let everyone know of the very sad news; Jay McShann, the last of the original Big Band Swing leaders, has passed away....

Post MLX classes this week with many still reeling from a weekend of non stop action and also the inclusion of a new Swing It! teacher… Lindy 1 This week it was the current Lindy 1’s first meeting with the greatest Swing move of them all, the Swing Out! A lot of tricky movement and...

For those of you that don’t know, Melbourne just held a national/international Swing dance event known as MLX (Melbourne Lindy Exchange).  As always Perth dancers flew over to join in on the fun but this year there was a record 30+ dancers there!  It was a four day event with dancing from 8:00pm till 6:00am...