This approach recognises that dancing is joy. Dancing is playing with your partner and the music. But this is not suitable for everyone. Some students need a strong external structure, where they are told exactly what to do and how to do it. Some students need to feel that learning is hard, painful work.
Some folks insist that dancing is steps and moves and feet and brains and routines.
If the music makes you want to dance, if you are comfortable in your own body, and dancing with a partner. If you feel the music, have a positive, playful attitude, and are not too shy to learn to move in new ways, and if you have the time and interest to spend on learning to dance this great dance, this series is for you. Introduction Swing music is music in the tradition of Jazz from the Swing Era. It started in the late 1920's and flourished until the early 1940's. The great dance bands of the era were Chick Webb, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller.