Swing Buffalo's biggest event ever is happening in just under a month. Swing Buffalo has invited two international champions in Lindy Hop and Balboa to teach a weekend workshop on the UB North Campus. It is open to the public. The event features 8 hours of instruction from Valerie Salstrom & Davis Thurber, two swing dancers with an award sheet too long to list here. We have also 2 more hours of local instruction, a Jack n' Jill contest, guest DJ's from Pittsburgh, Ithaca, and Albany, performances by Queen City Swing and the Waterloo Swing Crew, a dancestore.com shoe table, a welcome dance at Curtain Up! downtown dancing to Babík, 3 dances, and all at a very low price! Both SwingBuffalo.com and the UB Swing Dance Club are subsidizing the cost of this workshop to make it affordable to all. It's even cheaper than taking classes here locally, so don't miss your chance to get awesome talented Lindy Hop and Balboa classes from international Champions traveling in for 1 weekend only from Cleveland and Pittsburgh! Check out all the details and register at:



If you don't know what Lindy Hop and Balboa is, check out the instructors' videos on the instructors' page.

Rob

Hey guys, this month's dance is going to be a benefit for the Gowanda flood victims. Come check it out and have a great time in the process!

A Mid-Summer Night's Swing
A Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, Balboa, & Charleston Dance
8-11
American Legion Brounshidle Post 205, 3354 Delaware Ave., Kenmore, NY
$8 General / $5 Students & Seniors

No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Lesson from 8-9. Performance by Queen City Swing. This dance is a benefit dance for the victims of the Gowanda flood. We will be accepting clothing, food, & cleaning supplies for the victims as well.

50's Prom
A Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, Balboa, & Charleston Dance
featuring a costume/dance contest to win dancestore.com gift certificates
July (25th), 8-11pm
American Legion Brounshidle Post 205, 3354 Delaware Ave., Kenmore, NY 14217
$5 Students/Seniors(65+), $8 Non-Students
Beginners More Than Welcome!
No partner necessary.

Hey Guys,

Our monthly dance "Buffalo Hop" is starting up again this year for the summer. It was a huge success last year. This run will culminate in a national level workshop in September. We'll also be organizing a contest to win a sweet pair of dance shoes at a future dance. The first one is May 30th. Get the details here:



Rob

Swing Classes, round 2. This isn't swing as you probably know it. This is the authentic stuff, developed on the street in the 30s and still evolving today. These classes are designed to be a continuation of Intro to Balboa and Intro to Lindy Hop, but if you know the basics of the dances, you do not need to have taken those classes. See the links below for details...





Rob

UB Swing Dance Classes (sponsored by the UB Swing Dance Club and SwingBuffalo.com)
12-1 East Coast Swing with Sam & Sylbie (http://swingbuffalo.com/beginner_lindyhop.html)
1:05-2:05 Lindy Hop with Mark & Venus (http://swingbuffalo.com/beginner_ecs.html)
2:10-3:10 Intro to Balboa with Rob & Zoë (http://swingbuffalo.com/intro_to_balboa.html)
3:15-4 Dance Practice
Jan 25, Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29
Student Union Flag Room, UB North Campus
Beginners More Than Welcome! Community Welcome! No partner necessary.

Announcing the First SwingBuffalo.com Anniversary Celebration...



SwingBuffalo.com's 1 Year Anniversary Dance

Friday December 5th, 2008
8-11

$8 General Admission
$5 Students & Seniors

VFW Post 416
18 Spring St.
Amherst, NY

Beginners More Than Welcome!
No partner necessary.
Beginner Lindy Hop Lesson 8-9

SwingBuffalo.com officially went online December 5th, 2007. This December, Friday December 5th marks the 1 year anniversary of bringing Buffalo swing dances, classes, performances, and organized trips. Come celebrate this momentous occasion with lots of fun, food, dancing, music, instruction, and hilarity!

This has been a terrific year. When before, there was no lindy hop scene to speak of in Buffalo, there's now a vibrant and talented scene. We are known in the region from Toronto, to Pittsburgh, to Albany and beyond. Visitors from all over stop at our weekly dances and instruction, DJ'ing, performances, and demoes provided by SwingBuffalo have been requested numerous times by other organizations in and outside of Buffalo.

I quickly looked through our calendar and made a rough tally of the events created and/or sponsored by SwingBuffalo as of December 5th, 2008. They include:

159 Classes in Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, Charleston, Shim Sham, Musicality, & Balboa
63 Weekly dances
4 Large Dances (including this anniversary dance)
2 Contests
9 Performances

Not only that, but SwingBuffalo.com's efforts (and dancers) have been noted in print, on the radio, on the web, in magazines, and on TV. These include, but are not limited to, WGR55, WBLS, Buffalo Spree, Buffalo Rising, The Buffalo News, and News Channel 4. We've had 3 articles alone in Buffalo Rising.

As the founder of SwingBuffalo.com, I'm extremely gratified to see so many young people get excited about traditional street forms of swing dancing such as Lindy Hop and Balboa. And to see them not be able to stay still when big band music comes through the speakers inspires and energizes me. And when members of the swing dance troupe created by SwingBuffalo.com (Queen City Swing) started traveling to national events, I knew I'd succeeded in giving them the bug. The friends we've made and the terrific times we've had demand a celebration! So let's all get together December 5th to celebrate 1 year of bringing Lindy Hop, Charleston, & Balboa to Western New York!

Come learn Lindy Hop from the best! This month's dance has been expanded to include a special Lindy Hop Workshop taught by the Waterloo Swing Crew performance troupe out of Waterloo, ON! Do not miss this chance to have top-notch swing dancing instruction.

Saturday August 30th
Workshop: 2pm-5pm @ Kenmore Baptist Church
Pot-luck: 5:30pm-7:30pm @ a GRG Garden (TBD)
Dance: 8pm-11pm @ Unitarian Universalist Church
Price: Workshop: $8 ($5 students), Dance: $8 ($5 students)
Details:

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SwingBuffalo.com has formed a Lindy Hop Dance Troupe. Our first official performance will be at UB on the Green, a summer Performance Series on the Hayes Hall front lawn on UB's South Campus. Come watch us perform and take a free jitterbug lesson as well as listen to history of various forms of swing dance and watch demonstrations of Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Chaleston. We will have a tent at UB on the Green from 6-8 Tuesday July 22nd. Here are the details:


UB on the Green, Queen City Swing Performance
(plus demoes, history, and lessons in various forms of swing dancing)
Tuesday July 22nd, 6-8pm
Free
Hayes Hall front lawn, UB South Campus, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
SwingBuffalo@gmail.com

Buffalo Hop - round 2

This month, we've arranged a special guest DJ "Beth Midavaine" of Groove Juice Swing in Rochester.

Monthly Summer Dance Series
Jitterbug, Lindy Hop, Charleston, & Balboa
Saturday July 26th, 8-11pm (beginner lesson 8-9)
$5 Students / $8 Non-Students
Unitarian Universalist Church, Elmwood & West Ferry, Buffalo, NY
Beginners More Than Welcome! No partner necessary.
SwingBuffalo@gmail.com