Please note that for all of our classes, it is not necessary to
bring your own partner, as there are plenty of other people to
dance with. Comfortable clothing and flat, smooth-soled shoes
are recommended.

Lindy Hop

Dating back to 1927, Lindy Hop is the original - and still the best! - of the Swing dances, reigning over American dance floors for about 20 years.

Lindy Hop classes are taught Mondays at the International Dance Academy at 15 Ormond Quay. Classes are taught in a 6-week session and cost €60. Pre-registration for the Beginners class is highly recommended: contact the IDA at 01 887 4536 to reserve your spot (NOTE: it is best to ring after 5 p.m., as there is often no one there during the day). Be sure to arrive early on the first night to complete your registration. See the Session Schedule box above to find out when the next session begins. Note there are no classes on Bank Holiday Mondays (hence some sessions may run for more than 6 weeks if one or more Bank Holidays fall in the middle of the session).

Level 1 (Beginners): Learn the basics of Lindy Hop from 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

Level 2 (Improvers): Now that you know the basics, start building your Lindy repertoire with new moves that build on the basics learned in the Level 1 class. There are 3 different 6-week Level 2 sessions - A, B, and C (18 weeks in total) - taught on a rotating basis, and they can be taken in any order. Class is from 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.

Level 3 (Intermediate): From the end of March, we will again be putting this class on hiatus.  However, Jessica (the same teacher we share the Route 66 nights on Wednesdays with) is resuming teaching her Intermediate class from the middle of April, and it will be on Tuesday nights.  If you’ve completed our Improvers classes, you are ready to move on to her Intermediate class now. Go to her website, www.dublindy.com, for more info on her classes.  We are making this change so that we can offer a sort of “Beyond the basics” class on Wednesdays for the people there who have been doing the drop-in beginners lesson there for a while and want to learn a bit more, in the hope that this will help alleviate the problems encountered by having so many people at the beginners lesson! :-)

East Coast Swing

Route 66, our Wednesday social dance night, includes a lesson in East Coast Swing, which is a much-simplified form of Swing dating from around the 1950s (the early Rock 'n' Roll era). As such, it's a great way to introduce beginners to Swing dancing. Each week, we teach the basic step, then we teach a couple of different moves (with enough different moves for about 12 weeks of classes), so new people can start any night, and returning people can continue to learn new moves. For more information on Route 66, check out our What's On page.