Good news blues dancers we have found a temporary venue for the Tuesday Night Spoonful while our regular venue is being renovated.

The useful classes and social dancing will be held at the City Cafe (19 Blair Street) for the next 2 Tuesdays.

This month we have Julia and Sebastian taking the classes. Why not start the new year off by trying some blues?

Happy New year, Edinboppers!

We hope you have had a lovely festive break, and look forward to seeing you back on the dancefloor this Wednesday, 4th January!

Wednesdays at The Counting House:

Main Room
7-8 Beginners Lindy Hop (new dancers welcome!)
8-9 Improvers Lindy Hop
9-11ish Social dancing

Second Room
7-8 Improvers Balboa
8-9 Intermediate Balboa

**Unfortunately, we’re really sorry to say that our Blues venue is still under repair, but we’ll let you know as soon as we have the class/venue details organised for you.**

Costs:

One dance class per night – £4.50 / £3.50 concessions
Two dance classes per night – £8 / £6 concessions
Social dancing – £2 per night

Once a year, Edinbop offer you the chance to get up and show us what you can do. The 2012 Edinbop birthday cabaret will be held on 1st February!

If you haven’t experienced it before, the Edinbop cabaret night is always great fun, and consists of a series of short acts in between our usual social dancing. It’s a great night to bring along some of your non-swing dancing pals as there is a lot of entertainment – all for the bargain price of our normal £2 entry!

If you need some inspiration, check out the videos from previous years!

All acts are welcome and anyone can be involved – there’s only one rule: it doesn’t have to be good, as long as it’s short! There’s no friendlier audience, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve got for us this time!

Want to improve your fast lindy? Come along to Paul and Christi’s fast lindy workshop!

Saturday 11th February 2-4pm at the Calton Street Centre, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh. £6 (£4 for students)

For intermediate and advanced dancers who want to dance faster, better!

Email christi@thehighlandswing.co.uk to book a place

***We still have a limited number of spaces available to leaders and lead/follow couples in our upcoming Balboa weekend!***

After last years success, Edinbop is delighted to announce the Second Edinburgh Balboa Weekend, which will take place on 18th and 19th February, 2012.  And this year, we have the pleasure of hosting two of the world’s finest practitioners of this wonderful dance: Kelly Arsenault and Mickey Fortanasce.

If you want to make 2012 the year you get out there and meet the swing dance world, there’s a really handy resource for you - http://swingevents.co.uk/

There are countless dance weekends and weeks if you travel to Europe. You should know about the Herrang Dance Camp: by far the biggest and most important swing dance event in the world, which this year celebrates it’s 30th anniversary. For five weeks each summer, this remote village on the Baltic coast of Sweden becomes the international home of Lindy Hop; you can go for as much or as little time as you like, and registrations have already opened.

The weekends vary in many different ways (size, dance styles, live bands, price, competitions or not, etc.).  If you want more information, or recommendations of which ones to go to, ask around at Shoeswing or the Spoonful. Just one note: ‘exchanges’ focus on social dancing and don’t have classes; the other weekends will do.

Tim and Shell will be taking the last class of the year and for a change they thought they will bring you some ideas for your solo charleston and jazz.

Never know what to do when a jazz jam starts up on the social dancing floor? Come along and you’ll have some moves to throw down and can join in too! Solo dancing can also help improve your partner dancing too.

The class will replace the normal improvers lindy class at Shoe Swing at 8pm on Wednesday 21st.

It’s nearly Christmas time and Shoe Swing Wednesdays and the Tuesday Night Spoonful will take a small break for the holidays. The last night of Shoe Swing will be the 21st December and the last night of Tuesday Night before Christmas will be 13th December.

Don’t worry though we won’t be away for long. Shoe Swing will return on Wednesday 4th January and The spoonful will return on Tuesday 10th January.

Don’t know what to buy your dancing friend for Christmas?

Edinbop now has some gift vouchers available for purchase at the door at Shoe Swing.  Vouchers are for 4 classes (£18) which you can use at any of Edinbop’s regular weekly classes including blues on our blues night.

Thanks everyone for coming along to the AGM last weekend.
We can now announce the committee for this year will be:

Catherine Ainscoe
Kim Robertson
Michelle (Shell) Davies
Sebastian Sandoval Similä
Leigh Anderson
Alison (Ali) Jeffrey
Sarah Bax