We love new dancers! Sign up online, use the voucher code FIRSTTIME, and your first drop-in lesson plus your first Tuesday night dance is on us!
We're pleased to offer some of the best instructors and classes around! Here are some of the things we are up to:
Need a refresher? Want to try swing dancing for the first time? Our drop-in lesson is the perfect place! No partner and no advance registration is necessary.
Our drop-in lesson admission comes included with admission to our weekly dance, the New Columbia Social. So once you've learned a few new moves, stick around to try them out!
When you're ready to really dive in to learning the dance, we're here for you. Our full-length class series run every six weeks.
Swing 1 is a single 6-week series that will introduce you to the basics of Lindy Hop, including the standard move patterns, basic footwork, and partnership technique.
Swing 2 consists of four rotating 6-week series that will continue to hone swing dancing skills you learned in Swing 1, expand your Lindy Hop move library, and introduce you to other swing dances that you can integrate into your social dancing. The series rotate and are designed so that you can take them in any order. You may begin the Swing 2 level with any of these series:
A) Lindy Hop: Musicality and Rhythm
B) Charleston
C) Lindy Hop: Moves and Partnership
D) Balboa and Bal-Swing
We also offer one-off classes and shorter 3-week series on special topics, some introductory and some more advanced. Keep an eye on the calendar or an ear out for announcements at the New Columbia Social about what new topic is coming up!
Everything is taught by our fantastic team of instructors.
All Tuesday-night classes run from 8-9pm. You may not be admitted into the classrom after 8:20 pm, so be sure to arrive early to allow time to check in!
| Online | At the door | Single Class* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6-Week Series | $115 | $135 | $25* |
| 3-Week Series | $60 | $70 | $25* |
* Taking a single class in a series is only available as space permits and is dependent on series content and/or previous dance experience. Admittance is at the discretion of the instructors.
Swing 1: Intro to Lindy Hop
with Juthapathra Dechanupong and Julianne Ferrill and Skyler Hinkel and Kevin Mascitelli
Jan. 13th,
Jan. 20th,
Jan. 27th,
Feb. 3rd,
Feb. 10th,
Feb. 17th,
Feb. 24th
Swing 2: Balboa and Bal-Swing
with Amanda Gerken and Frankie Pereda
Jan. 13th,
Jan. 20th,
Jan. 27th,
Feb. 3rd,
Feb. 10th,
Feb. 17th,
Feb. 24th
Improvisation and Individuality
with Kate Feldman and David Lee and Jason Niesz and Annabel Quisao
Feb. 10th,
Feb. 17th,
Feb. 24th
More Bal-Swing!
Begins March 3rd
Continue to hone your Bal-Swing technique, expand your Bal-Swing vocabulary, and learn how to bring personal style and variation into this rhythmic, twisty-turny dance. Prerequisite for this class is familiarity with the fundamental movements of Bal-Swing including Lollies, Out and Ins, and Toss-outs as taught in our Swing 2: Intro to Balboa and Bal-Swing series.
Swing 1: Intro to Lindy Hop
Begins March 3rd
Learn the fundamental rhythms, movements, and partnering integral to the African American swing dance style invented in the ballrooms of 1930s/40s Harlem, the Lindy Hop!
Swing 2: Lindy Hop Musicality and Rhythm
Begins March 3rd
Music is why we dance! In this series, you will continue to learn new lindy hop moves, practice the ones you learned in Swing 1, and explore how music inspires our movements and our dance ideas.
Jeremy Otth and Annabel Quisao All Levels Lindy Hop Workshop
March 7th
Embrace the Jitterbug spirit with internationally renowned, award-winning SoCal dancer, Jeremy Otth, and New Columbia Swing Director of Education, Annabel Quisao. Jeremy and Annabel share a love of rhythm, surprise, and partnership connection in their swing dancing. Explore these qualities in your Lindy Hop and take advantage of the opportunity to learn from Jeremy who is seldom on the East Coast! Familiarity with 6-count and 8-count Lindy Hop including side passes, circles, tuck turns, and swingouts are prerequisite for this workshop.