Be part of an exciting team of swing dancers!  Learn to perform, by turning your Lindy Hop & Swing Dance skills into impressive group performance routines!  Learn group moves and formations.  Learn useful performance techniques and principles.  Improve your dancing skills.  Most of all, have fun doing what you like to do best -- dancing!  Topics will rotate every 8 weeks, from Swing Rueda to Big Apple to Jam Circles to Choreographed Routines and more!  Upon completion of this 8-week series, you will perform with the team at a popular public event!

PREREQUISITES:  Lindy Hop I (8-Week Course) -or- Equivalent.  You've taken hours of Lindy Hop classes and are proficient dancing the fundamental Lindy Hop moves with a partner on the social dance floor.  Ten moves you should already know include Swing Out from Open Position, Swing Out from Closed Position, Lindy Circle, Side-by-Side Charleston, Swing Out Variations (Outside Turn, Inside Turn, Free Turn or Sushi), Texas Tommy, Texas Tommy with a Stop, and Mini Dip.  If you can't dance the above ten moves, then take Lindy Hop I instead, or talk to the instructors.  If it's just a couple of the above moves that you don't know or haven't yet mastered, the instructors might be able to schedule a private lesson for you beforehand, or they might recommend that you take Lindy Hop I & Dance Team I simultaneously.  Instructors reserve the right to move any registered Dance Team I student to the Lindy Hop I classes instead.

PARTNERS:  No partner is required.  People are welcome to sign up either with or without a partner.  To maximize learning, all participants will be required to rotate and to dance with a variety of partners.  We will strive to register a fairly even balance of leaders and followers.

INSTRUCTORS:  Sam & Carleene

WHERE:  At 1st Dance Studio, 5098 66th St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33709.  Click here for a Map & Directions.

COST:  $40/person for 8-Week Series (Eight 60-Minute Practice Sessions; 8 Hours Total of Training & Practice!)

REGISTRATION:  Register NOW to reserve your space!  Limited Space is available on a first-come, first-serve basis, and payment is due with registration.  Click here to register securely online now.  Or register in person at any prior Swing Time event (including the Wednesday Gulfport Casino Swing Nights); bring your registration payment to the event (cash--exact change please or check--payable to "Swing Time") and see Pat at the front desk to register.

WHEN TO ARRIVE:  All practice sessions start and finish promptly at the scheduled time.  Please arrive early for each session, and 15-20 minutes early for the first session.  This will give you time to check in and warm up prior to the practice, and will ensure that you don't miss the important material that starts each practice.

WHAT TO BRING:  Please bring or wear dance shoes, comfortable clothes, and bottled water.

MORE INFO:  Please contact us if you have questions or for more info.

SPECIAL OFFER -- $40 REBATE!  Our goal in these courses is for you to become a better dancer.  Your becoming a better dancer is worth more to us than money.  The single most effective thing you can do to become a better dancer is simply to attend your course in its entirety.  Arrive early; stay to the end; and be there actively participating all 8 weeks.  So here's the deal -- sign up for both Lindy Hop II and Dance Team I: Swing Rueda.  (These back-to-back courses are most effective when taken together.)  Attend all eight weeks, arrive early every week, stay to the end every week, and actively participate in the courses (rather than sit on the sidelines), and upon completion of the courses, we will rebate you $40 in cash!  That's like getting Dance Team I: Swing Rueda absolutely free!  Note that the $40 rebate is for the two combined courses, so limit one $40 rebate per person.