West Coast Swing Dance Class

A very smooth, cool and casual style of dance, that uses an interesting form of elastic movement to create the feel of swinging past each other. Both the arm and foot work involve trying to maintain the couple on a single "track" of floor and moving from one side of the man to another, using a variety of movements. While this is not the easiest style to learn, it is broken down into its smallest parts so that anyone can piece it together should they put their mind to it. The beginners class works with a small number of moves so that everyone can get up dancing, and then works intensively in the last week of the term on the styling of the dance, so that we can turn the step into a motion of swing. The improvers class carries on from the beginners class teaching more styling of swing, as well as more complex movements as a person progresses.