Looking for more?
Be it more music to listen and practice to, other Facebook groups to chat to other dancers, resources to help you practice at home etc. We’ve compiled this for you!
Facebook Groups to Join
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Swing Dance Adelaide
This groups is for those here, or visiting, wanting to Swing dance and are looking for live/ dj music gigs with dance opportunities.
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Women’s Swing Shoe Dance Hunt
A wonderful resource that has shoes for sale and lists brands and places to get them! Also excellent response times and useful feedback from community members of their experiences with different shoe makes and models etc. Does have shoes for sale as well.
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LGBTQAI+ Swing Dancers Network
A safe space for LGBTQAI+ people, other non-binary people or same gender or same-sex dancers, ambi-dancers and switch dancers, and our friends and allies. A place for exchanging information, sharing events and keeping up to date on issues important to our communities relating to the dances and music we love.
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Balboa Dancing in Adelaide
The place to find out about local balboa classes and social dancing in Adelaide, or just geek out and discuss balboa with other dancers.
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Blues Dancers ANZ
Your one-stop-shop for information on what's happening in the greater blues dancing community across Australia, and across the pond in New Zealand.
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Swing Dance in Oz & Nz
This facebook group is for in and travelling to Australia and New Zealand. It lists all the major vintage swing dance events, all the swing schools, international listing websites, how it all started here and much more!
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Adelaide Dance Events
A mixture of dance events from around Adelaide.
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Music
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Beginners
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Beginners Cont.
Balboa:
Spotify Playlist by Luna
Spotify Playlist by LunaCharleston:
(8Count/Side by Side/30’s, 6 Count & 20’s):
Spotify Playlist by Luna
Spotify Playlist by LauraCollegiate Shag:
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Continuers
Balboa:
Spotify Playlist by LauraCollegiate Shag:
Spotify Playlist by LauraSolo Jazz:
Spotify Playlist by Laura
Spotify Playlist by Luna
Podcasts
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Here are some wonderful ones that our founder Luna Godfrey put together. If you have any more to recommend please comment and let us know!
There’s also a vast collection on Player FM as well! Check that out here.
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Swing Stuff Podcast with Ruby Bell
Born out of early 20th century America, swing dancing - and the jazz music that inspires it - is an art form that is still loved and practiced worldwide. Join host Ruby Bell and special guests for a deep dive into swing dancing, swing music, and all of the various stuff that intersects with swing dance culture both historically and today.
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Women in Jazz with Earanee Niedzwiecki
So many excellent female jazz musicians of the past have received nowhere near the recognition of their male peers - 'Women in Jazz' hopes to change that trend, one story at a time. Each month, we sit down with a new musician to discuss her experience in music, and the inspiration that lead her to pursue a career in jazz.
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From the Top with Alexei Korolyov
Alexei speaks with guests about history, fashion, teaching, gender roles, and the effect of globalisation on swing dancing.
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Blogs
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Yehoodi
Yehoodi is a global community site that features discussion forums, podcasts, and radio for Lindy Hoppers. A great place for an aspiring swing DJ to spend their time.
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Swungover
Bobby is an international swing dance instructor and has won championships of many different sorts and teaches Balboa, Lindy Hop, and Solo Jazz across the world. He gives talks on both historical and personal adventures in history.
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Dog Possum
Sam Carroll started dancing in 1998, is an international DJ, and runs Swing Dance Sydney. They go into exceptional depth sharing their knowledge of music, dj-ing, teaching pedagogies, history as well as learning approaches and so much more.
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It's The Way That You Do It
By Andrew Selzer who runs the dance studio Boston Lindy Hop. Posts focus on experiences as a consumer/participant, in addition to an producer/organiser of how event planning and organisation related to swing dancing.
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Mandi’s Lindy Hop Blog
Mandi Gould is a swing dance specialist living in St. Catharines, Ontario near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is dedicated to spreading the spirit of Lindy Hop as a joyful, inclusive, and welcoming dance.
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Lindy Shopper
Resource for swing dance clothing and accessories, new and old, and other items that swing dancers may find useful.
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LindyBloggers
Providing intelligent and articulate posts from expert DJ's, Instructors, and Dancers.
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Swing, Jazz & Blues - Dance to the Music
A blog about music that makes you want to dance. Henrik Eriksson gives you tips about music and dancing resources.
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Shuffle Projects
Written by Christian Bossert, a swing dancer since 1999 and current teacher and international Swing DJ Chrisbe, based in Zurich Switzerland.
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Lindy Groove Technique Class Notes
Lesson plans, homework and assorted notions!
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SWING DJs
Swinging Music, Song IDs, DJ Skillz, Tech Talk, Upcoming Events, Other Music.
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The Lindy Affair
Some great articles (like the breakdown of the Al and Leon Shim Sham) and a good list of other Lindy blogs (most already in this list)
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Jeff Leyco
The BlogIn which Jeff writes about things that are currently interesting to him (usually swing). You may also find it interesting.
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& a few more for the road