21st May – Remembering Frankie – Shim Sham and Lindy Hop Classes

Posted on 20/05/2023 by nottinghamlindyhop

It’s the 2nd of our Frankie Manning honouring class days this Sunday 21 May.

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🌟 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!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/latenightlindy/permalink/5881437361984791/

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Hope to see you all tomorrow and Friday 😘

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May Classes – Shim Sham, Frankie 6s, Frankie Manning, World Lindy Hop Day

Posted on 14/05/2023 by nottinghamlindyhop

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 👋

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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:

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April & May: Spring into Lindy Hop!

Posted on 30/03/2023 by nottinghamlindyhop

📣 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.

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Sun 5 & 19 March – Up coming classes

Posted on 04/03/2023 by nottinghamlindyhop

Hello everyone!

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.

April and beyond

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Feb & Mar 2023: New dates for Lindy Hop Classes

Posted on 04/02/2023 by nottinghamlindyhop

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 first and third 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!!)

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Sun 8 & 22 Jan: Happy New Year and more Intro to Lindy Hop classes

Posted on 04/01/2023 by nottinghamlindyhop

Hi everyone!

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.

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Sun 11 Dec – Intro Class, Tea Dance & Fuddle

Posted on 11/12/2022 by nottinghamlindyhop
Happy Festive Dancing Everyone!

So, Sunday 27 November actually happened! It was our first class in two and a half years and it was amazing, a little emotional, and so much fun! Thank you to everyone who came. It’s your energy and enthusiasm that make it all so special. I went home with a very full heart 💛 and very tired legs 🤣

Today, Sunday 11 December, we have our second Introduction to Lindy Hop Class and we’re following it with a beginner friendly, relaxed Tea Dance and Fuddle. I hope lots of you are able to join us again.

👉 You don’t need any experience or a partner for either the class or tea dance.

The class will add to the skills you learned last time but you don’t need to have been at that class to join us this time as we’ll start at the basics and build from there.

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NOV/DEC 2022: Two Tasters and a Tea Dance :-)

Posted on 25/11/2022 by nottinghamlindyhop

Hello everyone!

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 :-).

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A long overdue update …

Posted on 16/12/2021 by nottinghamlindyhop

Dear all

How are you keeping? I hope happy and well despite this difficult time. It’s been so very long!

Thank you for all for the messages enquiring about classes starting up again. It’s great to know there’s still a passion and enthusiasm for this wonderful dance form out there and that you’re all raring to go.

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COVID-19 – Classes Suspended (no classes until further notice)

Posted on 15/03/2020 by nottinghamlindyhop

Dear all

I know how important our classes are to the mental and physical health of so many of us (me definitely included) so I’m taking this step with a heavy heart; but with the need to protect our vulnerable people and try to delay spread to help our health service (which I work for) cope, I have taken the decision to suspend all classes for the time being. That means no Sunday Lindy Hop and no Monday Solo Jazz Roots.

I know that local guidance hasn’t asked for this yet and I was hoping it wouldn’t be necessary just yet but the advice around social distancing is pretty convincing plus today I have a mild sore throat and itchy eyes, more likely due to hay fever than COVID-19, but it wouldn’t be right to chance it.

I will keep you all up to date as things progress and I’ll do my best to post interesting videos and information to keep you connected to all things swing in the meantime.

For now please feel free to use our Facebook page and group (search for Nottingham Lindy Hop on FB), our Twitter handle (@nottmlindyhop), and/or our Instagram feed (@nottinghamlindyhop) to keep in touch with NLH and each other to avoid loneliness during what may become an increased period of suspended activities. You can also message me directly whenever you need to 🙂

For now, take care of yourselves and I’ll look forward to seeing you at the earliest opportunity.

Love to you all

Lisa xx

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