Archive for the ‘ Swing Dancing ’ Category
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 14: Swing friends
The really great thing about swing dancing is the number of friends that you can make. Even dancing in your home city, in my case it’s Galway, you can make a lot of good friends. Anyone who travels to other places in search of even more dancing will find the potential to expand that circle […]
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 13: Favourite dancing memory
Throughout the four years that I have been dancing, I have had a lot of fun and many fond memories. Probably one of my favourite would be performing at the Volvo Ocean Race Final in Galway in 2012. A group of us had the opportunity to perform two routines on the main stage in the […]
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 12: Favourite swing pros
As I possibly mentioned in a previous articles, I have been dancing for four years. Throughout this time, I have had the opportunity to learn from a lot of great dancers and also observe great dancers either at an event or online. Some of the teachers / swing pros that I would consider to be […]
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 11: Favourite songs to dance to
Although I do enjoy dancing to a rockabily group that play regularly in Galway because I am a fan of the rockabily and rock n’ roll music that stems from before the sixties. For the purpose of this entry, my favourite songs to dance to would include Blue Drag by the Washboard Rhythm Kings, Midnight […]
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 10: My favourite workshop weekend
I have been to really great workshops both here in Ireland and abroad. I don’t think I could select just one as my favourite. By choosing a favourite that might imply that I would regularly attend that workshop year in year out without fail. I however prefer to add some variety by perhaps selecting a […]
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 9: My favourite class taken
There are two contenders for my favourite class. One of them was two hours of Balboa with Gašper Hrovat amd Dragana Radojević. I took this class the first time I attended the Ljubljana Sweet Swing Festival (LSSF 2010) and this class was part of the beginner’s level Balboa. I had been try to grasp Balboa […]
30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge – Day 8: My favourite instructor
This is a tricky one. Since I started swing dancing four years ago I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to learn from a lot of great teachers. If I had to choose one as a favourite, I would have to say Steven Mitchell. Steven visited Galway on two occasions for the annual […]