Solo Jazz Dance Classes! New!

When: 3.00pm Saturdays (starting Saturday 30 May) Where: Club Ashfield, 1-11 Charlotte St, Ashfield Cost: $20 online or at the door Who: YOU. New solo jazz classes! Waaaay back in 2012, Swing Dance Sydney ran the first weekly solo jazz class in Australia. Now, a hundred years later, we're doing it again. --The venue-- We have mirrors, aircon, a good parquet floor, a water bubbler, and a good sound system. Bar and restaurant downstairs, train station across the street. --The classes-- Our solo jazz classes are a lot like our partner dancing classes - you'll make new friends and learn to dance to jazz music. That means improvising, enjoying music on the dance floor with friends, and generally having a good time. We don't drill routines or choreography in this class. You'll learn specific historic steps, and then experiment with music and your classmates to see how they work. Our goal is to have you feeling good about dancing on your own, ready to dance at parties and live band gigs. But you might take these classes to learn about musical structure to improve your lindy hop. --Who's teaching?-- Sam Carroll. She's been lindy hopping since 1998, way back when jazz steps were a necessary part of every lindy hop class. She took her first solo jazz class in 2002 and she's been jazzing ever since. She taught solo jazz classes weekly 2012-2014, and then sporadically ever since. Every lindy hop class she teaches includes jazz steps. As nature intended. She has recently been taking hip hop classes. That's not jazz dance, but it's really hard and she's proud of it. Phrasing? swung timing? Why do we start on 8? What's a break? You WILL find out!