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 intermediate 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 is organizing our Wednesday nights into 3-month themes to allow our intermediate and advanced students to really progress! September, October, and November is our first theme, FAST LINDY! Wednesday nights for that three month period will have Fast Lindy, Balboa, and Jams/Tricks classes and rehearsals for a performance at the end of the three months! Auditions are required for the performance and all Wednesday classes except the Balboa Fundamentals class. Auditions will no longer be on a month-to-month basis, but will be held at the beginning of every three month theme. Auditions for our fast lindy theme will take place from 7-9pm on Tuesday, August 31st and Wednesday, September 1st. (This means if you would like to be in the advanced performance in November, you must audition three months ahead.) See our classes page for schedules and descriptions! Get pumped!!

Starting in September, all students who take Tuesday classes at New School Swing will be able to attend Boston Swing Central's Tuesday Night Practice Session for free! Starting October we'll raise our rates for the Tuesday classes by $5 to automatically cover the cost of the dance. 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.

New School Swing has a new pricing scheme:

Online General - $40/series
Online Student - $30/series
At Door General - $50/series
At Door Student - $40/series
(Students must show a valid student ID at the door.)

You will only be able to pay for full series online. We strongly encourage you to take all classes in a series, but if you must miss one class, you will get $10 off the "At Door" price (which ends up being the same as the "Online" full series price). We do not accept per class payments except for first-time New School Swing students who wish to try out our beginner class. They will be charged $15 for the first class, and must pay the remainder of the balance before they leave if they wish to continue with the series. In fairness to the other New School Swing students, you may not join a series after the second class. For questions about pricing, email info@newschoolswing.com.

We're now on Facebook and Google Groups. Join our group if you want to hear about upcoming classes through Facebook and/or Google Groups.

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.

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:

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

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