Lessons

If you happened to miss a week, want to learn on your own, or would like to check out what you learned in a previous week, you can view the end result of all our lessons right here.

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Week 6 | Week 5 | Week 4 | Week 3 | Week 2 | Week 1


Week 6


Beginner Lesson
Instructors Becky and Stephen taught the shim sham shimmy choreography!


Intermediate Lesson
Instructors Becky and Stephen taught a a solo jazz/charleston choreography they created.




Week 5


Beginner Lesson
Instructors Becky and Stephen introduce transitions between charleston and lindy hop, and vice versa.

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Intermediate Lesson
Instructors Becky and Stephen taught transitions between lindy, charleston, tandem charleston, and 20's charleston. Also in the mix is a cool move to do from the tandem 'yo-yo' move.

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Week 4


Beginner Lesson
Instructors Becky and Stephen introduce the charleston, the broken record, a turn around move and pancakes - and how to put those all into a routine you can use when you go out dancing!

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Intermediate Lesson
Instructors Becky and Stephen taught frame variations including 'chainsaw frame' and how to use it to get your follow to do what you want.

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Week 3

Beginner Lesson
This week focused on more lindy hop moves - the pass by turn, the mini dip and tuck turn.

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Intermediate Lesson
Becky and Stephen taught refinements on the lindy hop basic, the sugar push and a closed sugar push move.  Also we covered the non-turn pass by.

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Week 2

Beginner Lesson
This week focused on the lindy hop basic and an inside turn.

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Intermediate Lesson
Becky and Stephen taught how to do variations on the lindy hop basic - to make things more interesting! (First video is basic variations, second is the tap variation stephen taught)

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Week 1

Beginner Lesson
This week focused on the jitterbug/east coast basic, the tuck turn and pass by turn.

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Intermediate Lesson
Stephen and Yola taught a choreographed routine which we performed in a jam circle at the end of practice.

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