Swing’in Roma

Classes

Plan your Swing in Roma: explore the timetable and choose the level that best fits your dancing.

Weekend Schedule

Friday

  • 16:00–19:00 Friday afternoon tracks
  • 19:30–23:30 Check-in
  • 21:00–22:00 Competition prelims
  • 21:00–22:00 Taster Class
  • 21:30–02:30 Party

Saturday

  • 10:00–14:20 Classes
  • 14:20–15:10 Lunch break
  • 15:10–18:30 Classes
  • 21:00–22:00 Taster Class
  • 21:00–02:30 Party

Sunday

  • 11:00–14:20 Classes
  • 14:20–15:10 Lunch break
  • 15:10–17:20 Classes
  • 21:00–22:00 Taster Class
  • 21:00–02:30 Party

The present timetable may be subject to variations.

Levels

We prefer this year to offer different ways of forming balanced classes, based more on your choice. There will be no audition before the workshop: classes will be formed according to your registration. Teachers may move some dancers during the first classes to create a comfortable learning experience. Please read the descriptions carefully and choose the level that best matches your skills.

Intermediate

You have quite good control over the basic steps and have the ability to lead or follow a few simple figures as you dance around six months to one year on a regular basis and socially at least once a week. You wish to learn more and improve your skills to become a better social dancer. Dancers in this level will improve their technique, confidence in the basics and will improve their skills in musical changes as well as in some new moves and variations.

Intermediate / Advanced

To join this level you should have confidence and control of the basics and of the leading or following all the basic moves and you’d like to improve the quality and fluidity of your movements and your musicality more than learning more moves. You have been dancing regularly in your local scene and have probably been to some international workshop.

Advanced

This track is for you if you have been dancing Lindy hop for some years and have developed your own style as a dancer; your basic is solid and dancing to fast tempos is easy for you, you normally take part in workshops and international festivals. Dancers in this level will improve their skill to adapt to different partners and their different styles, and to improve the communication between the partners.

Advanced Plus

If it seems to you that you’ve been dancing Lindy Hop since you were born, this is your track! Dancers at this level should have a large vocabulary of moves and should be working on how to combine the moves they already know to fit the music and personalize their style. For an advanced class you need to be dancing on a high level for a long time or have joined several competitions, you are able to quickly master new steps and variations, because you already draw on a big repertoire of figures and variations, but you are always up for new challenges. Your goal in this festival is to play with the quality of your movements, improve your improvisational skills, use different levels of musicality, and bring your leading or following to a new level.

Master

This is an intense track for teachers and super advanced dancers.

You can join the Master level if you are a very well-experienced Lindy hopper, if you are a key dancer in your local Swing scene and maybe you teach Lindy Hop classes regularly. You are in the right place if you quickly learn new figures, if you feel comfortable in showing off your technique, skills, style and musicality in front of others.