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!

We have a special treat for our NSS students in May! We have asked Mike "The Girl" Legett and Dan Rosenthal to spend a month in Boston and do a teaching residency at NSS! Teaching residencies give our students the opportunity to learn from national level instructors they might not be able to take classes from otherwise. Mike and Dan will be teaching all four NSS series next month, so whether you're a beginner lindy hopper or an advanced blues dancer, sign up for this great opportunity to take from these fabulous instructors! Watch them performing at Hawkeye Swing Fest:

About Mike and Dan

Mike and Dan love to work on connection, striving for clarity of lead and follow. They believe that by working on the nitty gritty details of technique, they can achieve the ultimate dance goal - to go out onto the floor, and have creative, improvisational dances. Mike began her dancing career as an eager-to-please follow, seeking perfection. When reports of “boringness” smashed her dreams, she changed gears, and now aims for greatness-seeking expressiveness, dynamic energy, and plenty of delightful mistakes along the way. Dan brings the knowledge and discipline of a classical musician (with a degree to prove it), and a strong desire to spread knowledge. There are those who say that he can lead everything; Dan simply replies that with enough perfect practice, you can lead anything. A typical class will focus on fundamentals, vocabulary, and movement quality, so that at the end of the day, you can hold hands and boogie like a pro.

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

Do you have any feedback for us? We'd love to know ways we can make our studio better. Feel free to leave comments on our feedback form.

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



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

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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:

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:

• Making buttons to identify helpers and teachers at dojos. Ask me (Shawn) about it.
• Taking out the trash on Wednesday and cleaning up Tuesday evening
• 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
Email us or call us for more info.

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.

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.