Coming Up…
Some Like It Swing at the Genesis Cinema - Friday 20th May 2022
Biggin Hill 1940’s style street party - Saturday 28th May 2022
London Jubilee Jump - Thursday 2nd June 2022
Kings Cross Jubilee - Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th June 2022
Saturday Swing Time Live Band Party with Ding Dong Daddios at Curzon Centre, Beaconsfield - Saturday 11th June 2022
Balboa Workshop at Curzon Centre, Beaconsfield - Saturday 11th June 2022
St Martins In the Field - Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Swing into Winter at Shoreditch Town Hall - Date tbc
Biggin Hill 1940’s style street party to mark the Queen’s Jubilee
Saturday 28th May 2022 11am – 4pm
Join us in the grounds of Biggin Hill Memorial Museum and step back in time to mark the Queen’s Jubilee with a 1940’s style street party.
With vintage games, performances, music and dance lessons from SwingdanceUK!
11pm Warm up with the Lambeth Walk then learn to Jitterbug & Jive
3pm Learn the Big Apple
There will be something for all ages.
Delicious lunches and beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available from the Nightingale Café between 11.30 – 3pm.
Cost: General Admission - Payable at reception on the day
Biggin Hill Memorial Museum, Main Rd, Biggin Hill, Leaves Green, Westerham TN16 3EJ
London Jubilee Jump
Thursday 2nd June 2022 1pm – 5pm
Aisha Khan & her Rajah's
Simon Selmon
JiveSwing Hoppers
Simon Michie
Kings Cross Jubilee Weekend
Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th June 2022
Dance slot times on both days 1305 – 1330, 1445-1510, 1620 – 1645
Event runs 1200 – 1800 on both days with music acts running before and after Dance slots - if you are passing by please pop in and say hello.
St Martins in the Field
6:30 - 7:15 first set
7:15 - 7:45 class
7:45 - 8:30 second set
Swing into Winter at Shoreditch Town Hall
Don your sharpest threads and head to Shoreditch Town Hall as we Swing into Winter!
Get in the groove with the beginner and intermediate swing dance classes to kick off the evening where you can learn some NEW hot moves that will keep you dancing all night long to live swing band the Swing Ninjas.
There'll be great vintage tunes from the 30s, 40s and 50s courtesy of DJ Simon "Mr Kicks" Selmon, cabaret performances from SwingdanceUKs Diamond Girls & Sugarfoot Stompers while the Swing Ninjas will have the joint jumpin' as you jive, jitterbug, hoochie coochie and shim sham shimmy your way through the evening.
Plus this year we are holding the second Shoreditch Town Hall Swing Dance Championships, a fun competition to find this Spring’s champs: enter on the night with a partner - any Swing or Authentic Jazz style welcome. Finals judged by audience applause.
Presented by SwingdanceUK and Shoreditch Town Hall.
Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old St, London, EC1V 9LT
£14 (advance); £16 (on the door)
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Shoreditch Town Hall Covid-19 Safety Measures, as appropriate which you can find here. Provisional Timetable (subject to change)
7.30pm Doors
7.45pm Beginners & intermediate Lindy Hop classes
8.30pm DJ Mr Kicks
9.10pm Performance
9.15pm Band set
10.00pm Competition
10.30pm Band set
11.15pm DJ Mr Kicks
