Swing Time! Dance Lessons

CHARLESTON

Learn the Charleston steps, plus how to work not just your legs but your arms and body into the dance. We'll cover partnering, leading and following, various styles and variations of Charleston, plus how to mix the Charleston into your swing dancing. The moves and styles and variations taught will vary from week to week. Moves and variations will include a variety of Side-BY-Side, Side-TO-Side, Hand-to-Hand, Front-to-Front, Front-to-Back, Kick-Away, and Free-Style Charlestons! Our Charleston classes offer something for everyone from the beginning to the more advanced dancer. All classes stand on their own; you need not take one to take any of the others; but the more you take, the better your Charleston dancing will be! There are no prerequisites, and no partner is needed.

The wildly popular Charleston dance started in the 1920's and became the biggest dance craze of all time! With the advent of swing dancing, dancers incorporated Charleston kicks and steps into their partner dancing, and soon the partnered version of the Charleston took on a life of its own. Charleston, as a part of swing dancing, has kept evolving ever since, and today there are hundreds of moves/kicks/variations that are danced! Our Charleston classes cover all the major variations, plus give you a solid foundation for adding the rest!