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Lindy for a good cause

One of our Friday night regulars, Katherine Hogg has organised a chance to perform and social Lindy Dance at the Train Station for the Saturday shoppers to raise funds as part of Christian Aid week. Choreography by Al again plenty of familiar faces will be involved.

It's a fantastic way to improve your Lindy quickly and for free & get you over any worries you have about dancing in front of folks. You don't need any experience or aptitude since you'll be taught all you need to know.

1st rehearsal 13th April Terrace Bar, Leeds University Union
12pm - 2.30pm "Leroy Brown"
2.30pm - 5pm "Mess Around"

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Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 08:32

4th outing of the increasingly popular stays up late event.

   Once again with Live Music from the 'Brian Powder Jazz Band'.
Back again at the wooden floored downstairs Lounge at Tiger Tiger (117 Albion St, Leeds LS2 8DY) Map.
   LindyFridays classes will run as usual from 7 - 8.45pm then afterwards we'll have dancing until midnight
   In keeping with our not-for-profit theme (and thanks to your continued custom) the price remains a bargainous £7!
   More about it on the Calendar.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 21:07

Lindy According to Al (and Guests)

You'll should know Al from your regular Friday night Leeds Lindy Classes. Another  Lindy Dance workshop again with some very special guests all the way from Meanwood



27th April, 2008 Terrace Bar, Leeds University Union
13.00 - 14.30 Class 1 - Balboa: The Basic, with our very own Harry & Svetlana
15.00 - 16.30 Class 2 - Using Rhythms, with Al
17.00 - 19.00 Social Dance

Level: Improver upwards
1 class £5
2 classes £7

Social dance free
www.swingadingding.com

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Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 21:23

   A 3rd outing for the hugely successful stays up late event.

   Once again with Live Music from the 'Jon Taylor Quartet' (whom you may have heard at Liz & Andy Mooney's wedding last year)
   This time we're back in the wooden floored downstairs Lounge at Tiger Tiger (117 Albion St, Leeds LS2 8DY) Map.
   LindyFridays classes will run as usual from 7 - 8.45pm then afterwards we'll have dancing until midnight
   In keeping with our not-for-profit theme (and thanks to your continued custom) the price remains a bargainous £7!
   More about it on the Calendar.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 18:53

Lindy According to Al (with Special Guests)

You may well know Al from your regular Friday night Leeds Lindy Classes. Well she's orchestrated yet another  Lindy Dance workshop which will run after the easter break and this time she'll be joined by some very special guests all the way from the Grenoble Swing scene.


30th March, 2008 Terrace Bar, Leeds University Union
12.00 - 13.00 Class 1 - Vinnie & Aude (Grenoble Swing)
13.00 - 14.00 --Lunch--
14.00 - 15.30 Class 2 - Moving to the Music
16.00 - 19.00 Social Dance

Level: Improver upwards
1 class £5
2 classes £7

Social dance free
www.swingadingding.com

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Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 14:06

Lindy Fundamentals with Dominic & Christina

You'll all recognise Dominic & Christina from your regular Friday night Leeds Lindy Classes well Saturday 15th Mar they're running a Lindy Dance workshop.

Love Swing? But still a little confused as to how it all works? We’ve split up the rules we use to dance with into 3 easily digestible chunks:

  ‘The Theory of Rotatability’ will look at how and why we turn using the swing frame and ways to better co-ordinate spinning bodies.

  ‘4215 Swingouts’ will, inevitably look at the Swingout (the MOST important move in Swing Dancing) and give you a few new methods of swinging-out. Estimated teachable amounts may be ambitious.

   ‘Re-learning to walk’ will pull apart and put back together Swing footwork and with a bit of luck give you an insight into the hows, whys and whats of when to step where.

    The workshop will be targeted at dancer of improvers to intermediates level, but hopefully more advanced dancers might find something to challenge them

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 18:52

   The 1st one of these was hugely successful so we' re pleased to bring you another.
    After the recent  success of Lindy Fridays (since our move to the town centre) we can now pretty much afford to run these each month (fingers crossed).
   This time it's in the wooden floored top level of the TownHouse (27 Crown St, Leeds LS2 7DA) Map.
   LindyFridays classes will run as usual from 7 - 8.45pm then afterwards we'll have dancing until midnight to live music from 'TC & the Swing Cats'.
   In keeping with our not-for-profit theme you get the whole lot for a bargainous £7!
  
   Again any DJ's who fancy putting on some tunes on the night. Please do get in touch. More about it on the Calendar.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 00:56

Lindy According to Al

You'll may know and love Al from your regular Friday night Leeds Lindy Classes
well this Sunday she's running the first of many Lindy Dance workshops

3rd February, 2008 Terrace Bar, Leeds University Union
14.30 - 16.00 Class 1 "Slow and Smooth"
16.30 - 18.00 Class 2 "Fast and Bouncy"
19.00 - 22.00 Chilled out Social Dance

Level: Improver upwards
1 class £5
2 classes £7

Social dance free
www.swingadingding.com

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Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 01:07

   We're sooo excited about this! Almost 2 years in the making but after the recent  success of Lindy Fridays (since our move to the town centre) we are pleased to bring you our very own social dance right in the town centre.
   It's in the lovely wooden floored lounge in the basement of Tiger Tiger (117 Albion St, Leeds LS2 8DY) Map.
   LindyFridays classes will run as usual from 7 - 8.45pm then afterwards we'll have dancing until midnight.
   In keeping with our not-for-profit theme you get the whole lot for a bargainous £5!
   It's our first social dance so we'd welcome any DJ's who fancy putting on some tunes on the night. Please do get in touch. More about it on the Calendar.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 18:41

   Michael, One of our Tiger Tiger Friday night regulars is hosting another live band night at the Highwood Hotel in Roundhay. You can book your tickets direct with Michael on 07894 291 736 or speak to Jo at the LindyFridays classes (who's holding some tickets).


The Highwood Hotel
Brackenwood Drive
Leeds
LS8 1RG (larger map)









Will run 8pm-12am and price will be £5. If you're one of the LindyFridays folks then we can also potentially offer you a lift there and back. We'll do a pick up in the town centre for those out of town folks that want to join along. Just get in touch to arrange something with us.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 12:08

The Future Sounds of Swing 
     For the 2nd time this year! Another fantastic dance camp courtesy of Al & CB with a sample of some of the UK's finest teacher. 2 days of teaching right here in Leeds for folks from Leeds and all over  the country with dancing on Friday night & even a Live band on Saturday night. It's got Matt & Lotte from Cambridge, Dan Baines & Sue Freeman & Lloyd from Newcastle. You'd be crazy not to!
   Plenty news being added all the time on their futuresoundsofswing site. If you are a student make sure you book soon. This size of  event doesn't often come to Leeds so it's an opportunity not to be missed.
   Bookings open now! £30 for students, £40 for non-students (includes Saturday evening do). If you just fancy coming to JUST the evening do this will cost £6. You can put your name down for this at the LindyFridays or getting in touch via e-mail jo@lindyfridays.com

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 12:07

Now we have Dom Lea fresh back from 'JAPAN!!!!'  we're rehearsing with some of the other advanced dancers for some potential performance material. 4 hours this Sunday morning at 'Holistica' not far from the Playhouse. Would get fit quick with that kind of schedule. Hope we keep it up. Some footage of what we got up to here.

Look out for Dom bringing som excitement to a Leeds Friday Night Lindy Class near you soon.


 

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 01:02

This Friday night 31st Aug, one of our Leeds Friday night Lindy regulars is having a birthday do at the Highwood Hotel (Brackenwood Drive, Leeds LS8 1RG map here) and if you're a Lindy Dancer you're invited.

The Mike Booth Big Band will be playing and there'll be dancing til late. There's a one class only  (7-8pm) at LindyFridays this week in Tiger Tiger and then we'll all head up to the Highwood for some dancing to the Swing band. Do get in touch if  you'd like a lift there.

Jo

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 22:47

This went really well for our first night after no publicity. The big Leeds Lindy supporters turned out on our opening night to give their blessing. We got some new folks who looked up "Fun things to do in Leeds on a Friday night" on google and discovered our Friday night dancing to my delight. Glad all the work on our google rating has paid off. Team Hull made it over to visit us as ever and all the supporting regulars showed up to pick up some more Lindy.

Bought radio mics for us teachers but Tiger Tiger mixing desk let us down, so off to purchase more special leads tomorrow to get us underway next week. Room is big and boomy with lots of echoes so shouting out at class is hard to make out. Hopefully next week we'll get it cracked.

We run Wednesday night salsa classes down at Tiger Tiger at the moment so will have a go with the new radio mics next time we're in.

Floor is concrete not wood in Tiger Tiger club but as most people fed back it was worth it for the improved atmosphere of a bar in the town centre versus the swarthmore centre. Felt much more like a night out.

If we turn enough regular punters each week we're hopeful we can run ocassional full friday night at Sports Cafe on the Headrow with full wooden floor and lots of hours of dancing so we don't have to quit at 9.30pm.

Please continue to support us and watch here or lindyfridays.com for news.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 02:34

Plenty of footage of what we did. Winning no prizes for our less than polished attempts captured here.

         
Frankie Manning's class    Some mucking about          St. Louis Shag

         
Ukranians 1st class            Steven & Viginie's class     Ukranians 2nd class

       
Ukranians footwork            Heel Shag                               Heinrich & Joanna's 1st

          
Italians Fast Lindy                Heinrich & Joanna's 2nd     Social dancing @ 6am

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 23:27