Author: Shane

Lindy Hop has a rich and varied history and is easily one of the most stylish dances around…but it’s not all about crazy speeds. Ballrooms in the 20s and 30s were FILLED with stylish, graceful slow dancing as thousands of Swing dancers reveled in the slower tunes. When the early morning hours approached the tempos...

Behold our Fast and Furious cohorts! This was more or less a “we survived it” shot and everyone deserves that title since there were none left behind. No-one was entirely sure what Jarrad was doing up the front like that; “check out these guns”? I wonder if he’s done “over a thousand”. Fantastic to see...

Welcome to all of our new Lindy 1s! We had a fantastic turn out last night and very quickly shook off the winter chill as we charlestoned and tripled the night away. Any Lindy 2 fellas that feel like helping out we’d love you to rock on down; we’ve got a few too many girls...

A GUIDE TO STAYING WARM AND SOCIABLE THIS WINTER 1) Stay in front of the heater with a warm drink: Sociable Factor 4/10 (Guests may arrive with cookies) 2) A nice warm bubble bath: Sociable Factor 2/10 (No guests. Unless you’re lucky, or in a horror film.) 3) Setting yourself alight: Sociable Factor 0/10 (Morbid...

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Learn the art of tearing it up as Shane and Ruth present Fast and Furious! If you’d like to learn the skills, tricks and traits of dancing Lindy Hop at high speeds then this class is for you! This is a class that’s open to EVERYONE however you need to be ready for some high...

Also entitled, “Viruses are bad, bad things.” Many apologies for the lack of class reviews last week, especially considering how much energy everyone poured into those classes and the extra special photos we took to prove it. Sadly I was brought low by a lethal case of a disease doctors told me they’d “never seen...

There are times in life where you’re greeted with what some might call a “titanic” sight, or perhaps even “something to behold” (which is really just a lofty way of saying “something to look at” which actually doesn’t sound all that impressive…so let’s go with “titanic”): The launching of a mighty ship, the view from...

Friday the 18th May will see the start of a new, regular and FREE Swing It! class! From 6.30pm – 7.00pm Shane and Ruth will be teaching a free introductory swing lesson every week at the Mustang Bar. The lesson will be open to everyone and is designed to introduce newcomers to Swing and get...

Did we mention Jules is back? You know you’re doing something right when, the night you return to the scene, girls are literally LINING UP to dance with you. Lining up. In a line. To dance. We salute you, Mr Rawls. More eyes closed fun this evening as we continued in our endeavors to look...