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Join us next week for lindy hop lessons with Rathish and Elise in St Matthew’s! Social dancing in St Matthew’s will start at 9PM, with an exciting set from DJ Rachael!

See you there!

Welcome to Swing Tyne Summer! Our first week of the Summer schedule is up next Monday, 21st of July. Join Geoff and Mim for improvers and beginners balboa in Summerhill Bowling Club. Social dancing will feature crowd favourites – DJ Geoff and DJ Owen! See you there 🙂

Come and dance with us tonight! Lindy hop classes at Summerhill will be taught by Hilary and Rathish, and at St Matthew’s we will have shag with Rachael and Joel.

Social dancing to awesome tunes from DJ Rathish will start at 9 as usual 🙂

Reminder that we switch to Summer schedule starting next week. See last week’s post for info.

Join us tomorrow for weekly lessons! Chris and Mac will be teaching balboa at St Matthews, and Mike and Elise are in Summerhill for lindy hop. Social dancing will start at 9PM with DJ Harry!

We will be switching to summer schedule on the 21st, which means only one venue and two classes on Monday nights. This is to accommodate for reduced traffic and volunteer availability during summer holidays. The summer schedule will run until the 1st September, after which we will go back to normal. Here is our timetable – we will be releasing class info every week as usual:

– 21 July: improvers and beginners balboa at Summerhill

– 28 July: improvers and beginners lindy hop at St Matthew’s

– 4 August: improvers and beginners shag at Summerhill

– 11 August: tap dancing at Summerhill

– 18 August: improvers and beginners lindy hop at Summerhill

– 25 August: blues dancing at Summerhill

– 1 September: blues dancing at Summerhill and balboa at St Matthew’s

Get in touch if you have any questions 🙂

Tomorrow night we will be back on as usual! Lindy hop will be taught by Elise and Owen at Summerhill, and we will see a shag teaching debut from Rose! Be sure to give her and Mike a warm welcome at St Matthew’s.

Social dancing will start at 9 and we will be hearing from DJ Jane! See you there.

This Monday we are back on with our regular weekly classes! In Summerhill, Rathish and Ola will be teaching Texas Tommy for improvers and Charleston for beginners. In St Matthew’s, join Graeme and Sarah for a beginner balboa lesson on lollies and throwouts. Improvers will be revising all of their pure bal footwork variations and incorporating exciting new options.

Social dancing starts at 9PM, this week featuring DJs Rathish and Ola!

For our weekly classes tomorrow, we will have Mike and Phee teaching shag classes in St Matthew’s, and Owen and Hilary in Summerhill for lindy hop lessons. Social dancing this week will be accompanied by our favourite Magpies of Swing with another fantastic live set! Be sure to bring some cash to support the band and don’t miss out – the social starts at 9PM.

We would also like to offer our apologies to everyone who was disappointed by the last-minute change of venue on Thursday this week. We rely on the goodwill of the monthly social dance venues that allow us their use free of charge, which often means that event plans can be subject to sudden rearrangements. Our volunteers always do their best to immediately notify the community of any such changes via social media – make sure to connect with us on Instagram and Facebook for updates and live communications! And if you are interested in getting involved with volunteering, or joining the Swing Tyne committee, please do get in touch via email, direct message, or in person – we are always keen to have more people on board team Swing Tyne 🙂

See you soon!

Happy birthday to us! 🥳✨

🎊Swing Tyne turns 15 this Monday! 15 years of amazing volunteers, community, joy and dancing… Time flies when you’re having fun! To celebrate, we invite everyone to wear 💃 RED 💃 to this week’s classes and social dancing, and bring some cake to share! We are so excited to commemorate this special milestone with you.

🕺At St Matthew’s, Graeme and Sarah will be teaching balboa: lollies & variations for beginners, pure bal footwork variations for improvers. At Summerhill, Hilary and Eva will be teaching lindy hop.

🍹And finally, we would like to announce that our free monthly social dance Revolucion de Swing will take place on Thursday, 12th of June, downstairs at Revolucion de Cuba!

See you soon.

Tonight is bank holiday, and we will not have a lindy hop class! Instead, come along to Summerhill Bowling Club for themed classes on shag for balboa dancers, taught by Rachael and Joel. We will learn to dance shag in a small and relaxed way, making it perfect for dancers that like to conserve their energy on the social floor even to the fastest songs, or for those who need to be mindful of their joints and muscles.

Social dancing will start at 9PM with a set from the one and only Geoff! Be there or be square!

Join us on this lovely mid-May evening for some dancing! In St Matthew’s, Mike and Rachael will be doing collegiate shag. Be sure to get some practice in before the fast feet brunch social this Sunday. This is a fantastic, free entry, beginner-friendly event at the Holy hobo organised by local dancers who love balboa and shag and want to share the joy of these dances with the community, and everyone is welcome.

In Summerhill, Hilary and Anders will be teaching Frankie Manning-themed lindy hop classes to celebrate Frankie’s birthday – check out this video to hear him talk about lindy hop history.

At 9PM, we will have a fabulous social dance with live music by the Magpies of Swing! Don’t miss out.