Hi everyone! I’m very happy to confirm our new class dates for April 2024 plus our next social dance and fuddle to celebrate Spring and our 14th Birthday.
All will be held at our usual venue: St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham.
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🌻 Lindy Hop Classes – levels 1 & 2
🗓️ Sundays 7, 14, & 21 April
⏰ 5pm – Level 1 class | 6pm – all levels practice | 6.30pm – Level 2 class
Lindy Hop Sundays 3,10,17 March 5pm – level 1 foundations (Charleston kicks) 6pm – all levels practice 6.30pm – level 2 improving dancers (Swing Outs +) £7 pp per class or £12pp both classes on same day
No partner necessary, all welcome, new dancers should try to start on first week of month.
Solo Jazz and Charleston Mondays 4 & 18 March 8pm – all levels class (A-Z of Jazz steps) £7pp
All at St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Riad, Sneinton, Nottingham
Free on street parking with some spaces inside gates Close to bus routes from city centre
Good news! I’ve gone ahead and booked the hall for an end of month práctica on Sunday 25 Feb from 5-7pm.
This is for those who’ve attended our classes in Jan and Feb this year.
If you’re a brand new dancer, who hasn’t been to our classes yet, please join us for our new level 1 block on Sunday 3 March.
It’ll be an all levels facilitated session recapping class material in Jan and Feb and developing social dance skills. I’ll keep the session flowing but there’ll be lots time and space to practice together to music. I’m also planning to show a short video or two on swing dance history.
It’ll be the first time I’ve tried this so I’m sure I’ll learn a lot too on the day but I think it will be a good way to prepare for NottingJam and consolidate your learning over the last 2 months. If it works well I’ll repeat these sessions through the year, expanding our opportunity to dance and grow together.
It’s open to anyone who’s attended classes in January and February including our Jazz class.
It’ll be just £7 per person for the 2 hour session for all.
What do you think? Is this a good idea? Will you join us?
I had a great time teaching the taster class at Late Night Lindy last Friday and then hanging out and dancing with you all till the end. It was just what I needed following the news of a sudden and unexpected bereavement the day before. Thank you so much to everyone for taking my mind off everything and just allowing me to be happy for a moment doing this special dance we love.
Given all that I’ve had going on I’m a little bit behind with Admin but I did want to very quickly let you know our next class dates for February.
More details about prices and location of all our classes in our About us and our Classes page. However all are held at St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham
Now, I don’t know about you but I’m getting just a little tired of dull grey skies and rainy days and I can’t think of anything better to banish those January blues than getting back on to the dance floor with you all again.
Thankfully I have good news for us all as classes begin again this weekend (Sun 7th & Mon 8th Jan)! Yay!
It’s the perfect time to join us, whether you’re a brand new or returning dancer.
All our classes are currently held at St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham
All welcome, no partner necessary.
Lindy Hop classes this month will be on Sunday 7th, 14th, & 21st January
5.00pm – Level 1 Foundations (suitable for beginners)
6:00pm – Practice and Social time (all levels)
6:30pm – Level 2 Improvers
Click the button below to find out more about this fabulous dance style and culture
Brand new dancers – all welcome, no partner or experience necessary – what are you waiting for?!
Our level 1 Lindy Hop class at 5pm on Sunday is completely suitable for brand new dancers, so why not jump in and give it a whirl! It’s just £7 per person.
We start simply with walking (really!) sometimes fast, sometimes slow, then add a little more rhythm and footwork as needed. We learn to connect with each other safely and respectfully, and build our dancing skills together through the class and each week through the month.
Any gender can dance any role (lead or follow) in fact many dancers learn both over time and switch dancing can be so much fun. We all dance with each other and rotate in the class so no partner necessary. You can check out our ‘What is Lindy Hop?’ page for more details about the dance.
Remember everyone learns at different paces in the class, some may have danced before, some never a step, but we all support each other and laugh along the way, (and tbh the ‘wibbly wobbly’ moments are often just as much fun as the ‘aha! I got it!’ moments) and you will learn and improve week-by-week even if you start with two left feet and you’re more tortoise than hare. If you throw yourself, and enjoy the ride, you’ll have a blast.
£20 bundle offer to gently encourage you ALL to attend ALL Lindy Hop Sundays in January
Now the biggest challenge might be turning up to your first class (though you really needn’t worry) but to get the most out of your experience, you really should try a full month of classes (it’s only 3 weeks!)
So, if you want to help yourself to commit to a full month of classes, you can pay for all three January level 1 classes for the slightly reduced price of £20 if paid in full when you join us on 7 January.
I’m also making the same offer to level 2 dancers – all three level 2 (only) January classes for £20 if paid in full on 7 January.
For those of you that do both classes each week, you’re already getting a fabulous discount, but you too can make a small extra saving by paying £35 up front on 7 January for all three January Sundays.
(Note: there are no refunds for non-attendance – this small offer is to help give you the incentive to join us each week and really get the benefit of regular attendance, when perhaps the sofa might be calling your name a little too loudly, you can remember you’ve already paid 😉 – I hope it helps )
Card or cash accepted on the door. (Btw I’m working on a pre-pay system as an option but not set up yet).
Solo Jazz classes will be on Monday 8th & 22nd January (8pm)
This class is also completely suitable for beginners.
The class itself is an all levels class from 8pm where complete beginners work alongside more experienced dancers at their own pace with options for all at their own level.
All are welcome, no experience necessary.
It’s really good fun and a dance style in its own right including vernacular Jazz and Charleston rhythms and movements which are danced independently, either alone, in pairs or in a group but as it also teaches us balance, coordination, style, and most importantly, rhythm you can bring this into and improve your partnered dancing too.
The good news is we’ve moved from one class a month to two a month this year. I’m so excited!
Whichever classes you’re able to get to, whenever you’re able to join us, I’m really looking forward to meeting you all on the dance floor in 2024 (at St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham).
PS – I realised while getting ready for the new year that 2024 (in May) will mark 20 years since I started Lindy Hopping – my lindy-versary! I’ll have also been teaching it for around 16ish years and running Nottingham Lindy Hop for 14 years. My goodness that’s a long time! I’ll have to think about how we can celebrate. 😘
TLDR: This is a bit of an epic post. Part 1 is my heartfelt thank yous and recap of 2023. Part 2 has the details of our January classes including a section encouraging new beginner dancers to join us and a small incentive for all to attend every week in January.
Firstly I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came out to our Christmas Social dance in December. A few folk were sadly kept away by winter colds or other festive commitments at this busy time of year and yet we still had so many of us in the room. And, from the smiles and laughter on the day, and the lovely messages I’ve had since, from the fun swing rueda class, to snowballs, shim shams, and jam circles, social dancing and socialising, I think you all had a marvellous time. I know I did.
I also want to thank: Sarah and Tony for helping set up (those tables don’t wrap themselves you know!); everyone who brought food for the fuddle table (there were some lovely homemade dishes this year and I actually got to taste some of them before they were gone, yum!); and Adele, Graham, Paul and all who helped with the clear down (especially when I was so tired I could barely think straight)!
For those that didn’t see it on the socials here’s me, very tired, at the end, gushing away with happy thanks (note: there’s a little speaker button in bottom corner of the insta video which you may need to press to get sound) 🥰
I also want to thank everyone who has supported us throughout 2023 and I put together this little reel (see below), remembering where we started the year and where we finished.
Putting reels together is a skill I need to work on (and I/we really need to take more photos and videos of all the good times we have – too busy dancing of course!) but for me, simple though this is, it’s a lovely reminder that after just two taster classes at the end of 2022, we started 2023 with a one level intro to Lindy Hop class, twice a month, and finished with two levels of Lindy Hop classes, three Sundays a month, plus a Solo Jazz class once a month on Mondays. We also held four social dances of our own and supported and attended Late Night Lindy along the way too.
So, thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm that you all bring to our classes and events as we continue to build our wonderful community together. For all the work I do behind the scenes and on each day it’s really all of you who make it so special and completely worth it. 🥰
I’m now very excited about what we can do together in the year ahead!
Now, I don’t know about you but I’m getting just a little tired of dull grey skies and rainy days and I can’t wait to get dancing with you all again to banish those January blues.
Thankfully I have good news for us all as classes begin again this weekend (Sun 7th & Mon 8th Jan)! Yay!
You can go to the ‘about us and our classes page’ for more details on all our classes – where, when and how much 🙂
However, they’re all held at St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham and here are the dates and a little info (and a little offer) to whet your appetite:
Lindy Hop classes this month will be onSunday 7th, 14th, & 21st January
We have level 1 Foundations (suitable for beginners) at 5pm, practice and social time (all levels) at 6pm, and level 2 Improvers at 6.30pm.
What is Lindy Hop? – follow the link to find out more about this fabulous dance
Brand new dancers – all welcome, no partner or experience necessary – what are you waiting for?!
Our level 1 Lindy Hop class at 5pm on Sunday is completely suitable for brand new dancers, so why not jump in and give it a whirl! It’s just £7 per person.
We start from the rhythm and the footwork, then on to connection, building skills through the class and each week through the month.
Any gender can dance any role (lead or follow) in fact many dancers learn both over time and switch dancing can be so much fun. We all dance with each other and rotate in the class so no partner necessary. You can check out our ‘What is Lindy Hop?’ page for more details about the dance.
Remember everyone learns at different paces in the class, some may have danced before, some never a step, but we all support each other and laugh along the way, (and tbh the ‘wibbly wobbly’ moments are often just as much fun as the ‘aha! I got it!’ moments) and you will learn and improve week-by-week even if you start with two left feet and you’re more tortoise than hare. If you throw yourself and enjoy the ride, you’ll have a blast.
£20 bundle offer to gently encourage you ALL to attend ALL Lindy Hop Sundays in January
Now the biggest challenge might be turning up to your first class but to get the most out of your experience, you really should try a full month of classes (it’s only 3 weeks!)
So, if you want to help yourself to commit to a full month of classes, you can pay for all three January level 1 classes for the slightly reduced price of £20 if paid in full when you join us on 7 January.
I’m also making the same offer to level 2 dancers – all three level 2 (only) January classes for £20 if paid in full on 7 January.
For those of you that do both classes each week, you’re already getting a fabulous discount, but you too can make a small extra saving by paying £35 up front on 7 January for all three January Sundays.
(Note: there are no refunds for non-attendance – this small offer is to help give you the incentive to join us each week and really get the benefit of regular attendance, when perhaps the sofa might be calling your name a little too loudly 😉 – I hope it helps )
Card or cash accepted on the door. (Btw I’m working on a pre-pay system as an option but not set up yet).
Solo Jazz classes will be on Monday 8th & 22nd January (8pm)
This class is also completely suitable for beginners.
The class itself is an all levels class from 8pm where complete beginners work alongside more experienced dancers at their own pace with options for all at their own level.
All are welcome, no experience necessary.
It’s really good fun and a dance style in its own right including vernacular Jazz and Charleston rhythms and movements which are danced independently, either alone, in pairs or in a group but as it also teaches us balance, coordination, style, and most importantly, rhythm you can bring this into and improve your partnered dancing too.
The good news is we’ve moved from one class a month to two a month this year. I’m so excited!
See you soon!
Whichever classes you’re able to get to, I’m really looking forward to getting back on the dance floor with you all again (at St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham) and for lots of new dancers to join us there too.
Roll on the weekend!
Love Lisa xx
PS – I realised while getting ready for the new year that 2024 (in May) will mark 20 years since I started Lindy Hopping – my lindy-versary! I’ll have also been teaching it for around 16ish years and running Nottingham Lindy Hop for 14 years. My goodness that’s a long time! I’ll have to think about how we can celebrate. 😘
Yay! It’s our Christmas Tea Dance and Fuddle this Sunday 17 December from 5pm to 9pm. Only 2 more sleeps!
Come and join us for our last Sunday of NLH in 2023 and celebrate a fabulous year of happy Lindy Hop and Jazz dancing returning to Sneinton, Nottingham. 🥰
All swing dancers are very welcome regardless of experience or where you usually dance. No partner necessary.
This will be, as usual, a relaxed friendly swing dance social with warm up fun class (probably starting 5.30ish), snowball, shim sham, jam circles and, of course, a food sharing Fuddle.
Fuddle (food sharing) table
Everyone’s invited to bring a donation of food to the Fuddle table for everyone to share. We’ve had some lovely food in the past.
I’ll provide tea, coffee, juice and biscuits as usual.
Getting here:
We’re at our usual venue, St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham.
Free parking on street with a few places available inside the gates to the hall. Also close to bus routes or you could cycle or e-scoot here too.
See you soon!
I’m really looking forward to celebrating and dancing with you all 🥰
1️⃣ Tonight (Sat 9 Dec) Late Night Lindy and UoN Swing Society have their Christmas Social with live music from The Moonlighters at The Great Hall in the Uni Campus.
Good news! Our first Solo (Vernacular) Jazz Dance Class, since restarting NLH last year, took place on Monday 18 September and it was a roaring success! So two more dates have been added on the third Mondays of the next two months:
Good news! I’m running our first Solo (Vernacular) Jazz Dance Class, since restarting NLH, this Monday 18 September from 8pm at our usual venue, St Christopher’s Church Hall, in Sneinton.
It’s an intro level class starting from the basics. No experience necessary. All welcome.
£7pp on the door (card or cash)
Complimentary refreshments and free on street parking parking with some spaces inside the gates too. Easy bus route from town or grab an e-bike or e-scooter.
Just like when I restarted Lindy last year, I’m going to start with a monthly drop in class (most probably on 3rd Mondays of the month in 2023) and build up from there depending on interest.
🌟BRIGHTEN UP YOUR AUTUMN with LINDY HOP CLASSES in SNEINTON, NOTTINGHAM!
📣 Here are the new dates for our Lindy Hop classes this Autumn – September through to December – yay!
1st, 2nd, 3rd Sundays (ex Oct) SEPT – 3rd, 10th, 17th OCT – 8th, 15th, 22nd NOV – 5th, 12th, 19th DEC – 3rd, 10th, (With 17th Dec – Christmas Social Dance)
Times:
5.00pm Level 1 Foundations (suitable for beginners) 6.00pm Practice and Social Time 6.30pm Level 2 Improvers
Where:
At Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham
Cost: cash or card, on the door
£7 per class per person £12 per person for both classes on the same day
Other:
Complimentary refreshments provided
Ample free on-street parking with some limited (also free) spaces inside the gates to the hall. Direct short bus ride from city centre or make use of the e-scooter and e-bike schemes.
It’s time for our next relaxed, friendly, swing dance social with warm up fun class, snowball, shim sham, jam circles and, of course, a Fuddle.
Everyone’s invited to bring a donation of food (sweet or savoury) to the Fuddle table for everyone to share. We’ve had some lovely food in the past.
I’ll provide tea, coffee, juice and biscuits as usual.
We’re at our usual venue, St Christopher’s Church Hall, Trent Road, Sneinton, Nottingham. Free parking on street with a few places available inside the gates to the hall for early birds.
Doors open at 5pm and close at 9pm.
Cost £10 per person (card or cash on the door)
No partner necessary. All welcome.
Come join us to swing your socks off, have a natter and most of all have a fun evening with all your dancing friends.
PS – apologies, but something seems to have gone awry with our June post (when we did hold classes) so sorry if you missed them, please join us this July! Join our Facebook page and group and group chats too to help stay in the loop.
🌟 F1 – come learn the Shim Sham from 5pm (suitable for beginners)
🌟 Practice and Social time 6-6.30pm
🌟 F2 – From 6.30pm Explore some more of Frankie’s classic Lindy Hop partnered moves (for those who can triple step and rock step in 8 and 6 bt patterns but it’ll be ok if you sometimes get muddled 😉).
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It’s also WORLD LINDY HOP DAY on Friday 26 May so head down to Late Night Lindy to celebrate by dancing your socks off!
Woo! Hoo! It’s the first of our two May class days today! I hope you had a great time over the bank holidays but I’m so looking forward to getting back to classes for a couple of weeks. Hope to see you all later 👋
F1 class will be doing something a little different in May by exploring ‘Frankie’s’ Shim Sham – an essential must know for all Lindy Hoppers (suitable for beginners)
F2 class will be focussing on Frankie’s 6’s (anyone with a grasp of triple step basic footwork and connection will be fine here)
Frankie Manning
For those new to swing dancing, Frankie is Frankie Manning ‘The Ambassador of Lindy Hop’. There’s lots to learn about Frankie – I’ll tell you more in classes and you can also get googling and YouTubing – but I love this blog post from Bobby White at SwungOver written for Frankie100 it captures so much about the man as well as the dancer and teacher:
📣 Good news folks! I have some more dates planned for us all and after the success of our introductory classes over the last couple of months I’m changing things up a little bit so that we can continue to build and grow together.
I’m adding a second class (Foundations level 2) to our Sunday sessions for those of you ready to expand your repertoire and skills a little further while still working on the fundamentals.
The Intro class will become Foundations level 1. Both classes will be drop in, pay on the door. No partner required.
I’m so looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow at our first of two more ‘Intro to Lindy Hop’ classes in Sneinton this month on Sunday 5th and Sunday 19th March. The weather may be getting colder but we’ll soon warm up out on the dance floor.
Classes are suitable for complete beginners and rusty returners.
What will we be learning next?
This month we’ll be building a few new connections and rhythms into our repertoire including some of the basics of the ‘swing out’ Lindy Hop’s fundamental essential move/connection/pattern. It’s going to be a blast!
Don’t worry if you’re brand new, or you’ve had to miss a few classes, it’s still a great time to join us. No experience is necessary as we start slowly from the beginning and build up in these intro classes. No partner necessary either as we rotate dancers around the group circle so every lead dances with every follow – it’s the most effective and most fun way to learn.
Apologies for the delay in posting to the website – I forgot to move the post from the drafts folder! 🤦♀️
Anyway, as those of you in our Facebook group or who follow our Facebook page will already know, following the continued fabulous success of our January classes, I have confirmed some new class dates for February and March. Yay!
They’ll be on firstandthird Sundays of each month(that’s the 5th and 19th of both months). So the first is this Sunday 5 February (and as I’m posting late – that means TODAY!!)
I hope you all enjoyed our November class and Christmas class and Tea Dance despite the bumps along the road! It was wonderful to see so many of you turn up for both and with such enthusiasm. New faces and old, it filled my heart and I hope you all got as much out of it as I did. The first class back after two and half years was pretty emotional for me.
Well it’s a bit of an understatement to say that it’s taken me a little longer than I hoped to get to this stage but I think the most important message to say today is that Nottingham Lindy Hop is coming back baby!
I hope that makes you as happy to hear as it makes me to say :-).
⭐️May24! Lots of fun and something a little different at our two weeks of classes squeezed between the bank holidays as we celebrate Frankie (Manning) Month leading up to World Lindy Hop Day on 26 May.
⭐️Sundays (12th & 19th) have us learning the Shim Sham and the Frankie99 routine along with sharing some more history and interesting videos
⭐️And we’ll be getting back to rhythm and freestyle in our Monday Jazz classes (on 13th & 20th).
⭐️Then at the end of the month we’re encouraging you to hit the road and support our neighbouring scenes in Sheffield and Leicester as they both host social dances on different days on the WLHD weekend! It’s going to be fun! Come join us!!
Nottingham Lindy Hop 