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General dance events listing
Lynda's List swing jive latin rock n roll etc, events listing for London and the South Coast. Updated at least monthly a great source of what's on locally in the South of England. Look at these pages regularly for new events.
Swing Junction For Lindy Hop information and events in the UK. Has a section for the south, colour coded in purple.
Are You Dancing - Dance Event Calendar. Find dances, classes, workshops, weekends and dance camps across the UK, .Dance styles include Balboa, Lindy Hop, Swing, Jive, Tango, Latin and Ballroom You can also search for dance shoes and clothes etc in the dance directory. Best starting point for LHS locals is to choose "south" and category "swing"
Retro dance shoes, clothes and accessories
Revival-retro - selling swing dance shoes and 1930s and 1940s style clothing.If you are able to visit us in London, we offer try before you buy service so you can be sure of the look, feel, quality and fit.
Glitz4girlz - Retro hair accessories
Muffys.com - This is an American site for classic styles of saddle shoes
Video Clips
Promethean on pageflakes.com search aggregator for Lindy Hop on YouTube etc
Useful UK sites and contact detailsLindy Circle excellent UK lindy hop site masses of information
Rockbottoms Organisers of great dance weekends.
JiveSwing.Com Joseph & Trisha Sewell, who are based in Hertfordshire, are teachers of Lindyhop, Blues, Charleston, Tap and other african-american related dances.They teach regular classes and workshops around the UK and Europe and organise international dance events, such as the Goodnight Sweetheart Weekend and When Jive Met Swing
Camp Savoy Ryan and Jenny's dance weekend at Guilford, UK.
Udancin.com workshops and an evening dances
West Coast Swing Classes in North London Hottest swing dancing to the coolest music at Enfield Trent Park Golf Club Bramley Road, Southgate, London N14 4UW, Tel 020 8367 4653
South West Swing For all the best partner dance events, classes and workshops in the south west of the UK
Zootswing For Lindy Hop classes in Edinburgh
Twinwood Festival This nostalgic Swing, Jazz & Jive music festival is held annualy at RAF Twinwood Airfield and Twinwood Arena, near Bedford. Attractions include WWII Air Displays, 1940’s Re-enactmentsand Jive & Lindyhop Dance Lessons. Website glennmillerfestival Tel: 01234 350413
Helpful notes about Swing Dance
Lindy Hop information from the Edinburgh University Swing Dance Society web pages
The swing doctors are two teachers from the Edinburgh University Swing Dance Society .They have very useful notes and video clips from their classes, about Lindy Hop, East Coast Swing, Balboa, Charleston, and Strolls
Swingstyle Movie Clips Five online dance video clips from 1940s movies. In realplayer format. Covering Lindyhop, Jitterbug, Jive and Charleston
idance.net online instructional dance video clips by teachers such as Angela Andrews. It's worth a look just for their taster clips. You can download the video clips at $.99 each.
Swing Internet Radio Station
Yehoodi New York lindy hop site, with it's own internet radio station and links to MP3 interviews with international swing dance teachers, Sylvia Sykes, Steven Mitchel, Rob Van Haaren, Norma Miller etc..
International Sites
Yehoodi New York Lindy Hop web site: swing news from New York
Vintage Swing FESTIVAL in Slovenija with international teachers for workshops, intersting evening parties with live bands and swing DJs. See events page for details of this years festival
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