West Coast Swing with Swingiversity

240 W 37th St 2nd Floor, New York, NY

Join Galen Chen + Swingiversity crew on Friday nights for FUN West Coast Swing classes and an unstructured practice following. The focus of Swingiversity will be to provide you a growth path in your WCS journey to be able to create and enjoy all of your dances, regardless of skill level.

Level 101 – 7:30pm

The 101 class covers the basic patterns and requires no prior knowledge of WCS! This class is a three week series that you are recommended to take twice. Once to learn the material, and once to gain additional muscle memory plus practice the techniques and rhythms.

All-levels welcome, no partner or experience is necessary.

> Move up to 201
Our learning recommendation is to take the 101 Class for 3-6 weeks.

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Level 201 – 6:30pm

Level up your west coast swing skills while meeting other people in the community! Now that you know the basics from 101, come to the 201 class to expand your dance toolkit with your peers and learn the concepts that make WCS fun and easy. We’ll cover ways to adapt and succeed with different partners, technique to smoothly add variations to the basic patterns, and how to get more creative with the music.

Prerequisite: You should be comfortable dancing the basic patterns taught in our 101 class (left side pass, right side pass, sugar push/tuck, whip). You can count west coast swing music and start on time, understand and can demonstrate the connection within west coast swing at an introductory level, and make basic adaptations for your partners movements.

> Move up to 301
Take your audition with one of our teachers to move up!

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Level 301 – 7:30pm

For dancers who seek to refine their west coast swing, this class offers studies in movement quality, partnering and creativity. Students will be encouraged to elevate their awareness of their bodies and connection, and explore their individual preferences for how to approach the dance. The class introduces drills and technically difficult patterns as tools to practice these concepts and help us dive deeper into what makes a proficient west coast swing dancer.

Prerequisite: Strongly proficient in basic patterns with the skill to add variations, extensions, modify rhythm, all while dancing with partners of varying skill levels. Can lead or follow multiple patterns with two turns. Can identify and hit breaks in the music.

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SCHEDULE
6:30-7:30pm – Level 2
7:30-8:30pm – Level 1
7:30-8:30pm – Level 3
8:30-10pm – Open practice (All-Levels)

**On Flow Fridays nights – the Level 1 & 3 Classes + Open Practice sessions are cancelled**

PRICING
$30 Drop-in class
$24 Membership Rate
$20 DanzPass + Membership
$15 – Open Practice