Category Archives: Weekly Dances

Swing Dance is BACK! Weds 6/28 @ 7pm in Friend Center

Hi everyone!

Join us this Wednesday, 6/28 @ 7pm at the Friend Center Convocation Room for our first summer dance! This summer, we’ll be hosting a series of one-off workshops meant to help us develop and refine our dance skills, as well as our usual beginner lessons for all dancers!

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Here’s the schedule for this week. Please note that we’ll be holding simultaneous beginner and intermediate lessons, all in the Convocation Room!

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-8:00 — Beginner lesson with Kunal & Kirstin

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7:10-8:00 — Workshop: “Feeling Your Center” with Rob & Zoë (intermediate Lindy Hop experience recommended)

8:00-9:30 — Social Dance

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As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

I hope to see you there!!

-Kirstin

Last Dance of the Semester! Swing Dance this Wednesday (5/17) @ 7pm in Friend Center

Howdy everyone! We’re back in the Friend Center Convocation Room for our last dance of the semester this Wednesday, May 17th starting at 7 p.m. This is our Spring Fling formal (woo!), so we will not be holding an intermediate lesson this time – instead, we encourage you to dress up & come social dance with us!

Here’s the schedule for this week:

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-7:40 — Beginner lesson with Rob & Zoë

7:45-9:30 — Social Dance DJ’ed by Zoë

I’ll be there with bells on, and I hope to see you there!! 😊

As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (5/10) @ 6:30 pm at Arts Council of Princeton

Hi everyone! This week, our dance will be held at the Princeton Arts Council building (102 Witherspoon St, Princeton NJ 08542) starting at 6:30 p.m on Wednesday, May 10th. As a reminder, this dance costs $5 per person to help cover the cost of the room rental. Here’s the schedule for this week:

6:30-6:40 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

6:40-7:30 — Intermediate Lindy Hop with Grittney and Thalia

7:30-8:00 — Beginner lesson

8:00-9:00 — Social dance

Afterwards, let’s head downtown to get ice cream at Halo Pub!

As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (5/3) @ 7pm in Friend Center

Howdy everyone,

We’re back in the Friend Center Convocation Room this Wednesday (4/3) at 7:00 p.m. This week is a great week for beginners – we’ll holding a beginner lesson in Lindy Hop (8-count) earlier in the evening to start a brief intermediate Lindy Hop series to finish out the semester, and then our usual beginner jitterbug lesson afterward (6-count). This is a great chance to learn TWO new dances for the price of one (free!)

Here’s the schedule for this week:

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-8:00 — Beginner Lindy Hop with Thalia and Grittney

8:00-8:30 — Beginner lesson

8:30-9:30 — Social Dance

Can’t wait to see you there! 😊

As a reminder, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (4/26) @ 7pm in Friend Center

PLEASE NOTE THE SCHEDULE CHANGE AND SPECIAL CLASS THIS WEEK!

Howdy everyone! We’ll be back in the Friend Center Convocation Room this Wednesday (4/26) starting at 7pm. This week, we will start off with our beginner lesson (no experience required) – right after that, we’ll transition into a special one-night-only class led by Thalia on musicality, stylizations, and improvisations! Join us to learn how to add more personality, pizzazz and playfulness to your dancing. Beginners and more experienced dancers are welcome to attend the workshop – the beginner lesson will teach the basic moves and skills that we will need to know during the workshop, so we highly recommend attending both the beginner lesson and the workshop this week.

Schedule:

7:10-7:40 — Beginner lesson

7-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask)

7:40-8:30 — Musicality, stylizations and improvisation workshop

8:30-10:00 — Social dance

We look forward to seeing you this Wednesday!

As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (4/19) @ 7pm in Friend Center

Howdy everyone! We’re back in the Friend Center Convocation Room this week starting at 7:00 pm on Wednesday (4/19). This week will be our last intermediate Balboa lesson – big thanks to Rob and Grittney (and Zoe!) for teaching us so much this semester!

This week’s schedule:

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-8:00 — Intermediate Balboa with Rob & Grittney

8:00-8:30 — Beginner lesson

8:30-10:00 — Social Dance

Next week, we’ll be having a stylizations class led by Thalia. This class should be suitable for folks who have their 6-count basic down and are looking for ways to jazz it up. Stay tuned!

As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

In light of the University’s recent announcement, I want to clarify that the Princeton University Swing Dance Club will continue requiring vaccinations for all attendees moving forward. We remain committed to preventing the spread of COVID-19 and we appreciate your willingness to help keep your fellow dancers safe.

Swing Dance this Wednesday (4/12) @ 7pm in Friend Center

Hi everyone! This week, we’re back in the Friend Center Convocation Room starting at 7:00 p.m on Wednesday, April 12th. Here’s the schedule for this week:

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-8:00 — Intermediate Balboa with Rob & Grittney

8:00-8:30 — Beginner lesson

8:30-10:00 — Social dance

I hope to see you all there!

As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (4/5) @ 6:30pm at the Princeton Arts Council building

Hey everyone!

This week, our dance will be held at the Princeton Arts Council building (102 Witherspoon St, Princeton NJ 08542) starting at 6:30 p.m on Wednesday, April 5th. As a reminder, this dance costs $5 per person to help cover the cost of the room rental. Here’s the schedule for this week:

6:30-6:40 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

6:40-7:30 — Intermediate Balboa with Rob & Zoe

7:30-8:00 — Beginner lesson

8:00-9:00 — Social dance

Afterwards, let’s head downtown to get ice cream at Halo Pub!

Also, our intermediate Balboa lessons will be ending soon, and we’ll be starting a new progressive series to finish out the semester. We’re still finalizing what dance style we’d like to teach, but because we’ll be starting from the basics, this will be a great opportunity for new dancers to participate in the intermediate lessons! I’ll keep you updated as to when the next progressive lesson series will begin, and I hope you’ll join us!

As always, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a mask and a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (3/29) @ 7pm in Friend Center

Hey everyone! Just letting you know that we’re back in the Friend Center Convocation Room this Wednesday (3/29) at 7:00 p.m. Here’s the schedule for this week:

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-8:00 — Intermediate Balboa with Rob & Grittney

8:00-8:30 — Beginner lesson

8:30-10:00 — Social Dance

Can’t wait to see you there! (And don’t worry – our new favorite song will definitely be on the playlist this week!)

As a reminder, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!

Swing Dance this Wednesday (3/22) @ 7pm in Friend Center Convocation Room

Hey everyone! Just a quick note to tell you that our next dance will be this Wednesday, March 22nd from 7:00-10:00 p.m. in the Friend Center Convocation Room! This week, Nancy and Jerry are coming to teach us the Shim Sham (woo!) so our schedule looks a little different than usual:

7:00-7:10 — Check-in (don’t forget your mask!)

7:10-8:30 — Shim Sham with Nancy & Jerry

8:30-10:00 — Social Dance

It’s not often we get to learn a whole dance routine in one evening, so this is a week you won’t want to miss. Can’t wait to see you there!

As a reminder, please do not attend if you feel sick or have recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you are new to the club, please bring a copy of your vaccine card (digital is fine) for registration. Thank you!