Vintage Botanical Gardens Dance Gallery I

Screen Shot 2016-01-22 at 3.17.56 PMExplore our vintage Wednesday Night Swing photo collection from this week’s Wednesday Night Swing @ A2 Botanical Gardens! Kudos for the images go to Christine Campbell and her helpers! More to come soon! Did you take any pictures and want to see them here? Then contact us and will upload them or share them on our Twitter page!

 

EVENT HISTORY & CREDITS

  • Wednesday Night Swing @ Ann Arbor Botanical Gardens – January 27, 2016
  • Photos by Christine Campbell & friends

 

Wednesday Night Swing @ the Botanical Gardens followed by After Hour Blues Night!

Don’t miss out on this fantastic double-dance night w/ a FREE Beginner Lesson, FREE social dance, and FREE After Hour Blues next Wednesday, January 27! This is three FREE awesome dance opportunities in one night! See you on the dance floor!

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Click here for full event program!

Join SAA’s January Ambidancetrous Swing Workshop w/ Alex Tripp

Screen Shot 2016-01-19 at 8.09.22 PMJoin Swing Ann Arbor for our second Ambidancetrous Swing workshop series, taught by Alex Tripp! We start at the very beginning, so you don’t need any experience — or a partner, for that matter. Just bring yourself!What does ambidancetrous mean, you ask? You’ll be learning both leading AND following at the same time — double the dancing! We’ll be covering both Lindy Hop and Charleston in this series.

See full workshop description here!

FEATURED EVENT — January 27: Wednesday Night Swing @ Botanical Gardens!

ABC-Event-3-of-165.jpgSAA is planning something exciting for you on January 27: Wednesday Night Swing will be held at the Ann Arbor Botanical Gardens! We will have a free Beginner Drop In Lesson and a social dance followed by a Blues Night back at the Vandenberg Room (UM campus) ! Mark your calendar for this awesome double-dance night! Here’s the event schedule:

6:00-6:45 PM     Drop In Beginner Lesson @ Botanical Gardens FREE!
6:45-9:00 PM     Wednesday Night Swing @ Botanical Gardens FREE!
9:30-11:00 PM    Blues Night @ Vandenberg Room, UM League FREE! 

Our Beginner and Intermediate Series next week will be moved one week! 

Map | Ann Arbor Botanical Gardens:

For hours and directions to the Botanical Gardens click here.

SAVE THE DATE: Shuffle n’ Roll Balboa and Blues Weekend is Coming to Ann Arbor on February 6-7

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Ann Arbor is hosting its first weekend of workshops & dance parties featuring just BALBOA & BLUES! Brennan DeVoe is coming to town to show us how it’s DONE, and he’ll be teaching 8 hours of classes with local phenoms Erin Morris and Brittany Morton.

Click here for workshop details! 

News on Silvio’s Late Night Blues

Screen Shot 2015-01-30 at 3.23.49 PMAs some of you may have already heard, Silvio’s Pizzeria has announced that it can no longer host SAA’s popular Blues Late Night in 2016 due to changes in the restaurant’s schedule. We were saddened by the sudden decision to end the blues night tradition on Wednesdays. Silvio’s has always been a special place in the heart of the city bringing together local dancers and visitors from out of town to the tunes of Blues! Our Blues event coordinator, Arash Ardehali, is now looking for new ways to bring back Blues to SAA. If you like to help us to find a new location, please contact him or the SAA organization team with suggestions. Thank you and stay tuned for upcoming Blues news!

Back to School? Welcome to Swing Ann Arbor!

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Are you new to Swing Dance and want to take your first class or expand on previous skills? SAA offers an exciting dance program unique to Ann Arbor that allows you to both learn Swing Dance from scratch or to grow your existing dance vocabulary (or both)! Our website is the perfect place to explore SAA’s full dance program, to learn who we are, and how you can become a member of our community. Go to “Classes” to view weekly lessons (taught in 4-session series every month), workshops, and social dance events (aka our local classic Wednesday Night Swing), or take a look at “Calendar” to see upcoming dates. And if you want to get a preview of what dancing in Ann Arbor looks like, click through our gorgeous photo galleries! Any questions? Ask us and see you soon on the dance floor!

NEW 2016 Classes: SAA’s presents its January Beginner and Intermediate Series!

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Looking for a New Year’s proposition? How about learning Lindy Hop or refining your existing skills with our fantastic instructor team? Check out our amazing line up of classes in January 2016 here:

Beginner Class (4 sessions)                        Intermediate Class (4 sessions)

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Now Online: Winter Wonderland 2015 Photo Gallery!

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After an amazing night with the The Noah Henriksson Quartet in the Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League, we have a gorgeous collection of photos for you featuring the best shots of SAA’s Winter Wonderland Dance! Did you take pictures you’d like to share? Then tweet them on SAA’s Twitter page! Click here to go to the Winter Wonderland gallery.