Yes! We are committed to helping our students grow and learn as dancers. The diversity of our teaching staff ensures that you will always learn something new, whether you are taking a class for the first or the fifteenth time! If you have taken both of our Lindy Hop Basics and Fundamentals classes (6-Count and 8-Count), you can retake them free of charge if you are enrolled in one of our Advanced Beginner Classes at the same time. Leaders planning to retake either of our Lindy Hop Basics and Fundamentals classes as followers (and vice versa) will need to pay full price.

You can pay by credit card with our online payment. At the door you can only pay by cash or check. There is a discount for paying online.

In cases of snow emergency, New School Swing may cancel classes. If we do, we will refund a portion of the paid amount and inform everyone who registered via email.

You want to be comfortable and able to move in your clothes, and you'll want to dress in layers because you'll get warm. Your shoes should be comfortable and have a small amount of traction. In other words, our students dress in jeans and t-shirts rather than suits, and sneakers rather than hiking boots. Our floor is slick, so you may want to bring more than one pair of shoes to try out. If you decide you want to invest in a pair of dance shoes once you've been dancing for a little while, check out our links page for dancestore.com.

If you are comfortable with 6-count swing (sometimes called East Coast Swing or Jitterbug) and feel very comfortable dancing the 8-count swing out, lindy circle, and swing out from closed position, then you can probably jump in and try the advanced beginner class.

If any (or all) of that sounds like Greek to you, or you've never danced a step in your life, check out the beginner class, or ask one of our instructors for advice on which class to take. You can always switch classes if you find that you need a refresher or you find that the material covered is something you are already proficient in.

In partner dance, there are two roles, leader and follower. Traditionally, men dance the lead role and women dance the follow role, but many dancers learn the non-traditional role as well. If you are new to swing dancing, you should pick one role for your first class series and stick with it to avoid confusion as you learn the basics.

No. Partners are not required for classes at New School Swing. We rotate partners throughout the class so everyone has a chance to dance with everyone else.

No. There is no requirement that you rotate partners in class. The class can just skip over you in the rotation. However, we strongly suggest that you consider rotating in class. Our years of experience teaching dance classes and participating in dance classes ourselves have demonstrated that, overwhelmingly, people who rotate in class progress faster than those who do not. If a couple falls significantly behind the pace of the rest of a class, it becomes harder to keep them up to speed without slowing the progress of the rest of the class. People learn at different speeds and usually one person in a couple will pick up material faster than the other. This usually results in one half of the couple helping (read: teaching) the other with material that they, themselves, are still trying to learn. This can create a lot of stress in the couple's dynamic and will inhibit learning. Rotating allows people to find others in the class who are at their learning speed. This has the dual benefit of first, letting them know that there are others in the class who also may not be picking up the material right away and second, it lets each person dance with other people who are learning at his or her speed. Both members of the couple can then progress at a level that is comfortable for them, and still get to dance with each other when they meet in the rotation. So please consider rotating. If you still prefer not to rotate, that's totally fine. We want you to come and be comfortable in class, but please keep these observations in mind should you feel the urge to help your partner.

Absolutely! The best thing you can do for your partner is to get him or her out social dancing and encourage him or her to dance with lots of different people. When it comes to actually teaching the to dance, let us be the bad guys. It's what you are paying us for, after all. We want dancing to be fun for you and your partner, so if you see something that needs fixing, let us take care of it. Let any anxiety and discomfort with learning be directed at us, rather than at you. You be good cop. Be encouraging, positive, and drag your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife/friend out dancing. We'll be bad cop and make sure your partner is getting it right.

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