Get Spooky at our Halloween Dance!

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Come in costume (or dress up in some other way) and join us on October 31st for our Halloween Dance!

Location: Ballroom, Michigan League

  • MIX & MATCH dance competition
  • COSTUME CONTEST
  • PRIZES:
    • Private lessons
    • Class series
    • Dance entry (for a month!)

Plus, you can learn one of our favorite line dances, the Shim Sham, at our workshop from 7-8pm in the Ballroom!

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April Finale: Ambidancetrous IV Swing Workshop w/ Alex Tripp!

Screen Shot 2016-04-01 at 4.21.11 PMIt’s time for the grand finale of the 2016 Ambidancetrous Lindy & Charleston workshop series! Huzzah! This is the final workshop in the series. If you missed the earlier workshops that’s okay; you should be comfortable with basic Lindy and Charleston to take this class (swingouts, circles, Charleston basic, and tuck turns). For more details click here.

April Intermediate Lindy Hop Series!

Screen Shot 2016-04-01 at 4.10.57 PMThis month’s special topic is Bite Size Routines! Each week Britt & Erin will teach a standard chorus (AABA) of super fun moves and variations that strengthen your musicality AND vocabulary. Get ready for rhythms that you’ve never thought of and shapes you’ve never seen! The choreography is not consecutive from week to week, but the material WILL get progressively more challenging. Check out more details here.

Join SAA’s March Ambidancetrous Swing Workshop w/ Alex Tripp!

Screen Shot 2016-03-08 at 7.26.03 PMIt’s March, and that means musicality! How do you make your dancing fun even when you only know a bare handful of moves? Musicality, of course!

Click here for more!

 

Late Night Blues is back!

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Blues is back! SAA offers an exciting Late Night Blues dance at Scorekeepers Bar (or “Skeeps”) every Wednesday night! With its spacious and cozy setting and great deals on drinks and burgers, Skeeps is the best venue for blues dancing in town! Join us after Wednesday Night Swing and see you on the dance floor!

SAA is now on Youtube! Check out our first dance clips!

Vist Swing Ann Arbor’s brand new Youtube channel and browse through the first clips of our fabulous Valentine’s Swing! Expect more to come in the future!

1940s USO Dinner and Dance – PARTY LIKE IT’S 1944!

Screen Shot 2016-02-22 at 11.35.42 PM.pngWelcoming back the Ladies for Liberty and their inspiring brand of live music! Come dressed for a USO style 1940’s dance, featuring the Couriers Orchestra! Lots of great food provided in the ticket cost, cash bar with beer and wine will also be provided!

New Venue, New Vibe! Come and dance around the airplanes in a vintage airliner hangar with Big Band sound! Click here for details!

 

 

 

SAA’s Late Night Blues is Back!

scorekeepersbar.jpgSwing Ann Arbor is excited to announce the return of its fabulous Late Night Blues! Come and blues with us in one of Ann Arbor’s classics on Maynard Street: Scorekeepers (or “Skeeps” as known by Ann Arbor locals)! With its spacious and cozy setting and special deals for beers and burgers on Wednesday nights, Skeeps will offer a phenomenal venue for many memorable blues nights to come! Join us this Wednesday, February 17th, for the inauguration of Swing Ann Arbor’s very first Late Night Blues from 11pm to 12:30am after our social dance Wednesday Night Swing! See you on the dance floor!

NOW ADDED! Valentine’s Swing Photo Gallery II

Screen Shot 2016-02-04 at 7.18.13 PMA big shout-out for organizing the Swing Ann Arbor Valentine’s Swing goes to Richard Field and Sean Fanning and all the AACTMADers involved! Thanks to Emily Topham for decorating and Jessy Carolina & The Hot Mess for their awesome tunes! Also kudos to our photographer Samuel Wakerley for the great shots and to Connor Cole for moderating the Jack and Jill competition! Last but not least, we’re grateful for the generous financial support from the Central Student Government (CSG) at the University of Michigan making it possible to bring this fabulous event to the Ann Arbor community! Go Blue!

 

 

EVENT HISTORY & CREDITS

  • Valentine’s Swing @ Jazzercise Ann Arbor – February 14, 2016
  • Live Music by Jessy Carolina & The Hot Mess
  • Photos by Samuel Wakerely
  • Sponsored by University of Michigan Central Student Government (CSG)