News - New School Swing: Boston Lindy Hop and Swing Dance Instruction

About New School Swing

New School Swing exists to help foster Lindy Hop / Swing Dancing in the Boston area. We provide Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Lindy Hop and authentic partnered and solo dance instruction. We're excited to be partnering with bostonswingcentral.org, an organization which runs a Friday and Tuesday dance. Our beginner and advanced beginner lessons are on Tuesdays in the same space as the Tuesday night dance so you can go out dancing after your very first lesson!

New School Swing Blog

It occurred to us that we have many instructors at New School Swing who think a lot about dancing and what it takes to become a great Lindy Hopper and have a lot of fun doing it. Why not create a blog as a forum for our instructors to convey some of that information? Read our new blog here: blog.newschoolswing.com

We need your help!

Running the studio is a lot of fun! But also a lot of work and we can use your help. Beyond being your awesome selves and taking classes with us and helping out at dojo, if you feel like helping out or are hurting for cash but still want to take classes, you can exchange work for a discount on classes. Some ideas of things we can use help with:

Taking out the trash on Wednesday and cleaning up Tuesday evening
Watching the door at Dojo
Organizing promotional/fun events like impromptu lindy bombs so that we can combine having fun and hand out fliers
bringing flyers to the tavern at the end of the world.
Organizing student outings where more experienced dancers take newer dancers to dances
Making sure fliers are at all dances
Printing business cards for the teachers
Creating 3x5 cards instead of fliers
Helping us code new features for the website
Working on css for the website. (We're about to implement a redesign)
Lawyers to help with incorporation type stuff
Accountants to help with tax advice
Writers to apply for grants to support the arts
Bringing alien life forms to New School Swing to introduce them to the joy of dance so that they don't attack the planet
Bringing world peace to all through dance

New School Swing Instructor and Student Performance

The following is a routine some of the New School Instructors choreographed and performed:

The music was performed live by Gordon Webster's band.

Stay Connected on Facebook

We just created a Facebook page! "Like" our page if you want to see upcoming classes on your Facebook wall.

What is Lindy Hop?

We helped create this promotional video for bostonswingcentral.org and we feel that it helps capture the essence of Lindy Hop in Boston.

Worth noting is that this video includes many New School Swing instructors as well as some students from another Lindy Hop dance studio, Hop to the Beat. Also, the band featured in this clip is the amazing Gordon Webster. And, of course, the dance featured in the clip is Boston Swing Central's Friday night dance.

What will you learn?

No experience is necessary to take our beginning Swing classes. Watch the videos below to see what we teach in our beginner 8-count and 6-count classes:

What is Lindy Dojo?

All students who take Tuesday classes at New School Swing will be able to attend Lindy Dojo for free! Why are we doing this? Social dancing is both fun and one of the best ways to get better. So are private lessons. Many students can't afford the $25-$100 price of a private lesson, but a guided practice session is like a 5 minute private lesson. We want to encourage beginners and intermediates to stay for the practice session to practice with each other, have a good time dancing, and to work one-on-one with instructors.

Visit the dojo page for more info. Or checkout our Lindy Dojo Facebook Page.

NSS Performance at Blues Cafe

Nov 20th, 2010 New School Swing students performed at Blues Cafe in Medford at Springstep. Our Intermediate, Advanced, and Balboa groups all performed together to Diga Diga Doo at 240+ bpm.

Gift Certificates

Looking for a great birthday, anniversary, or holiday gift? New School Swing has gift certificates available for classes and private lessons. Click here to purchase a gift certificate.

Megan Damon	Kate Feldman
Joe Rabinoff	Liz Markle
Amanda Gruhl	Shawn Hershey
Alex Abdoulaev	Chris Mayer
Julie Brown	Natalya Gomez
Carl Herrmann	Lee Tucker
Gina Helfrich	Paul Mandel

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Boston Lindy Hop and Swing Dance Instruction