Videos

Lindyhop: performance

This is probably the most famous lindyhop clip of all - it's awesome! Don't worry if you come to class, we don't do any of this in the first couple of weeks...

Here's a more recent lindyhop performance...

Lindyhop: social dancing

Most people don't do performances, but come out dancing because it's fun. This sort of social dancing is improvised to the music around some basic steps. It looks more like this...

(clips will be here soon)

Other swing dances

On the dancefloor you're likely to see lindyhop dancers mixing in other dance styles which go with the same music. Balboa and Shag are two dances that are generally danced to faster music and they look like this...

(clips will be here soon)

Blues dancing

This is generally danced to - you guessed it - blues music, but you'll also see people sometimes dancing in this style to some of the slower swing tunes. Blues dances usually take place late, often after a whole night of dancing lindyhop. Here's what it looks like...

(clips will be here soon)