BEGINNER

You are new to Lindy Hop. You may have just started your first series of classes, taken a few drop in classes, or are brand spanking new. Perhaps you have only danced East Coast Swing. Or maybe you have taken Lindy Hop classes years ago but it just didn’t click and you gave up early on. Or, maybe you are a lead/follow that wants to learn how to reverse roles. If you want to fine-tune your fundamentals and really got a solid base, then this track would be perfect! This is the track for you to get a quick start on the road to Lindy Hop!

INTERMEDIATE
You have been dancing Lindy Hop socially for a few years now and you are definitely striving to reach a profound level with your dancing. You have a few Lindy Hop classes and/or workshops under your belt. The basics are comfortable, but you realize that continuing to fine-tune them will only make you better. Social dancing comes more naturally to you now and you are building confidence on the floor. Higher tempos are a bit challenging still. You are executing moves and patterns, but your repertoire is getting old. You want to bring more styling and footwork variations into your dancing. You want more options out on the dance floor, you want to further fine-tune your technique and you are ready to bring your Lindy Hop to the next level!

ADVANCED
You are one of the better dancers on the social floor and you have a lot of confidence. Moves are old news…you are starting to master your technique and bring musicality into your dancing now. You have been Lindy Hopping for a while and have most likely traveled here or there to Lindy Hop. You may have taught some local classes and possibly won/placed in some local competitions, but you wouldn’t say you are the best of the best quite yet. Locally, you may be having trouble finding challenging material so you feel like you aren’t improving or being inspired as much as you would like to. You are eager to learn from masters of the dance and want to be inspired so you can move to the next level.

MASTER
You are one of the best dancers on any social floor and the crème of the crop! You have been doing Lindy Hop for a long time now and have traveled to many Lindy Hop events to better your dancing. You have probably taught the next generation of dancers locally and perhaps even at out of town workshops. You have a lot of repertoire but want to bring your overall dancing to the next level. You are trying to figure out how to cross into that new territory in Lindy Hop that is sometimes hard to pin-point. You have developed your own style, but are always open to re-molding yourself. You are ready to be inspired and figure out how to break into new horizons.

ALL LEVELS
We have a few classes designated as “all levels”. These classes do not require you to be at a particular level dancing lindy hop. This doesn’t necessarily mean these classes are easy. Perhaps, they include material that is orthogonal to traditional progression of learning dance. Perhaps, they have solo material that everyone can benefit from even if they can’t get everything presented in the class.