What to expect
- Two incredible teachers with international experience, grounded in the Black American roots of swing dance.
- Two fantastic days designed to elevate your partnered dancing and find your self-expression.
- Two social dances and live music to connect and celebrate together.
This weekend will be a unique opportunity for anyone curious to learn more about Lindy Hop – whether you’re brand new to it or looking to deepen your dance practice.
What you’ll get out of the weekend
- Skills to add musical depth, individuality, and expression to your movement
- Techniques to bring clarity and fluidity to your partnered dance
- New ways of learning connected to the roots and values of jazz and Lindy Hop
- Shared experiences and new connections to spark your creativity
Join us to learn how movement, music, and culture come together in Lindy Hop.
Workshop Descriptions
Saturday Workshop brings everyone together for a fun day of classes to cultivate connections between complete beginners and experienced dancers. Trisha and Kibble will guide us through the core foundations and values of Lindy Hop. Through exercises on call-and-response and self-expression, we’ll explore Lindy Hop as a social dance where the music comes first. This workshop is suitable for complete beginners and will get you feeling comfortable finding your own groove to the music.
We encourage our more experienced dancers to join this session to experience a different way of learning and strengthen your musicality and individual style. Or, if you have ever wanted to try the role you are least familiar with, then this is the space to do it. Come curious and leave feeling creative!
Sunday Workshop has a deeper focus on technique for our regular and more experienced dancers who are looking for more of a challenge. Building on the foundations from Saturday’s workshop, Trisha and Kibble will teach us how to bring clear movement, timing, and fluidity into our partnered dance. Expect more complex movements, shapes, and ideas that you can play with on the social dance floor. If you’re signing up for this session, you’ll be comfortable dancing to different tempos and learning at a slightly elevated pace.
Sunday History and Culture Talk brings everyone back together for an immersive, interactive session with Trisha. Packed with visuals, music, movement, and discussion, this is more than a “talk”. “From Harlem to the Isles: A Journey Through Black Dance, Music and Culture in Britain”: Take a journey down memory lane through the music, dance and social spaces that helped shape Black British culture. Beginning with the arrival of Black American jazz and the Lindy Hop in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, we will travel through the generations, from wartime dance halls and jazz clubs to the arrival of the Windrush generation; from blues parties, shebeens, ska and reggae to soul, jazz-funk and the underground Black British dance scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Along the way, we will explore how each generation brought something of its own while carrying forward traditions of rhythm, improvisation, individuality, community and self-expression. Through music and stories, this is an opportunity to remember the sounds our parents and grandparents heard, which helped shape British dance culture, and to celebrate the extraordinary contribution Black communities have made to the way Britain moves, dances and listens to music today. Come ready to watch, listen, remember and perhaps recognise a few tunes and dances along the way.
Social Dances
Saturday party: time to connect, dance, and enjoy the live music from Swingamathing!
Sunday tea dance: a celebration of the weekend with more dancing and cake! (guest DJs to be announced!)
Ticket Options
Mixers £85 (early bird tickets extended!) : Go all in for the weekend! Mixers get access to all events, including workshops, the history and culture talk, and both the Saturday party and Sunday tea dance. Recommended for regular and returning dancers.
Groovers £70 : Complete beginner or just starting to find your groove with Lindy Hop Groovers tickets get you into all Saturday activities — the beginner-friendly workshop, party — plus, the Sunday history and culture talk.
Movers £60 : Looking for a deeper focus on movement and flow? This ticket is best suited to more experienced dancers and includes Sunday-only activities — workshop, talk and tea dance. If you can only join us on Sunday, choose Movers — otherwise, book for the whole weekend!
Shakers £22 : Just want the space to shake and shimmy on the social dance floor? Shakers tickets include entry to the Saturday party and Sunday tea dance — plus the Sunday talk.
Saturday party or Sunday social add-ons also available.
Concessions and solidarity tickets
We’ve set aside a limited number of concession tickets for members of the African Caribbean Centre, where we are hosted on the Saturday, to help make this event accessible to those who would otherwise find it out of reach. Access this community offer by using the discount codes ACC30OFF for a Groovers ticket or ACC15OFF for a Shakers ticket.
Want to help keep the spirit of Lindy Hop as a community dance alive in our hometown? As part of your booking, you have the option to make a solidarity contribution in “Extras”. By doing this, you'll support more people who might not normally be able to afford it to attend.
As a volunteer-run group, we don’t organise our events for profit. So if you have the means to support keeping our events accessible, we really appreciate it.
Group Discount
We've extended our early bird tickets! So book at this reduced price to enjoy the whole weekend. If they are sold out and you are still planning to travel as a group from outside of Leicester, please get in touch with us at ifsleicester@gmail.com and we'll sort you out with a discount code.
Schedule changes
The information is correct at the time of booking, however if we add any activities we’ll be sure to keep attendees updated.