LEARN TO SWING DANCE

Join our Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Collegiate Shag class series and explore the comforts of good partnering, dance history, and dynamic social dancing! Classes are five week series.

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

LEARN TO SWING DANCE

Join our Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Collegiate Shag class series and explore the comforts of good partnering, dance history, and dynamic social dancing! Classes are five week series.

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Join Peter and Lauren for a beginner-friendly two hour mini workshop teaching the classic jazz routine: the Shim Sham! Adapted by swing dancers from its original tap form, this routine is popular the world over, and danced almost nightly at most swing dance venues. Having worked with the creator of the original tap routine, Leonard Reed, Peter can actually share some firsthand techniques and stories about this historic tap routine. Join in the fun!

6:30-8:30pm, Friday August 15
$20 workshop only, $30 workshop and social dance
Register at: https://cloudlanddance.square.site/s/order

• Prerequisites: None. Some dance experience preferred, but not mandatory.

**We have some scholarships available: Email contact@cloudlanddance.com

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Closed THIS WEEK only

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Closed for National Holiday

Join Peter and Lauren for an exploration of personal expression and individual style in Lindy Hop. This three-hour workshop will give dancers the creative agency to investigate how they like to move as individuals and in partnership, as well as exploring the aesthetic styles of a broad range of original dancers. Students will be given the tools to be intentional about their movements and physical responses to music, giving each dancer access to the stylings and musical execution they’ve always wanted.

Schedule:

• 12-1pm: Body Awareness & Mechanics: Why We Do What We Do

• 1-2pm: Stylings Galore

• 2-3pm: Musicality

• Prerequisites: Comfortable in 6-count and 8-count Lindy Hop. Can execute a variety of swing outs at slow, medium, and fast tempos. (Completion of Intro to Swing, Lindy 1, and at least one series of Lindy 2, or equivalent)

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

LEARN TO SWING DANCE

Join our Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Collegiate Shag class series and explore the comforts of good partnering, dance history, and dynamic social dancing! Classes are five week series.

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Join Peter and Lauren for their Slow Balboa workshop June 21, where they'll take students on a deep dive into the essential techniques and styles of vintage Slow Balboa.

This workshop will focus on aesthetics, techniques, and flow in Slow Balboa at the Intermediate and up level. Students will explore rhythmic variations and different styles of Slow Balboa, and learn to add playfulness and musicality to well known moves.

Prerequisites - Participants should have a firm grasp of:

Uphold and downhold basics, come arounds, and out and ins, at minimum. The workshop will build on these foundational moves, creating exciting combos and an easier use of momentum throughout the dance.

Schedule:

-Brush Up Your Basics-

Building more comfortable and efficient basics, and adding some sparkly styling to help your pure bal basic stand out.

-Momentum and Flow-

Exploring rhythmic variations throughout Slow Balboa.

-Dean Rafftery’s Slow Balboa-

Learn this classic variation of Slow Balboa made famous by Balboa dance legend Dean Rafftery.

Peter & Lauren are two dynamic instructors with over forty years of teaching experience between them. Their elegant style and smooth dancing stands out wherever they go, and their enthusiasm for teaching has made them crowd favorites around the world. Based in Seattle, they are highly in-demand, sharing their passion for the great classic dances of the Swing Era. Their classes and workshops are acclaimed for their clarity, humor and high spirits!

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

LEARN TO SWING DANCE

Join our Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Collegiate Shag class series and explore the comforts of good partnering, dance history, and dynamic social dancing! Classes are five week series.

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Body Health for Social Dancers Workshop

Join physical therapist and professional dancer Colleen Bickel PT, DPT, COMT for this three hour intensive look into our own movement and health in social dancing. Often dancers are plagued by impairments that are not necessarily painful but adversely affect performance. By optimizing a dancer's body, we prevent injury by minimizing compensations that affect movement. (No partner required.)

This workshop is designed to:

-Improve understanding of anatomy and pathology as they relate to dance

-Demonstrate clear and effective tools with supporting education to prevent injury

-Refine performance by optimizing regions of the body

Students will work on:

-How to properly warm up/warm down before and after social dancing

-Injury Prevention & Healing

-Flexibility & Range of Motion

Saturday, June 7 2-5pm

Gotta Dance Studio

17945 NE 65th St, #100, Redmond, WA 98052

Register here: https://square.link/u/AMUr3uPp

(If costs are an issue, we have some scholarships available! Email contact@cloudlanddance.com to find out more!)

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

LEARN TO SWING DANCE

Join our Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Collegiate Shag class series and explore the comforts of good partnering, dance history, and dynamic social dancing! Classes are five week series.

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Join seasoned DJs Lauren Smith & Peter Flahiff for a deep-dive into what it means to be a great DJ for swing dancers! This workshop is for aspiring and seasoned DJs alike! We will explore building playlists, facilitating a night of great social dancing, and playing for events and competitions.

More than just finding a “Swing Music” playlist on Spotify and hitting shuffle, a great Swing DJ brings a wide range of skills to the booth and creates an evening filled with irresistible tunes that practically compel everyone in the room to have a great time!

With literally thousands of hours of experience playing excellent music for swing dancers of all experience levels all around the world, Lauren and Peter will share with you how they approach everything: building a library, curating specific playlists, DJing for different events and dances, and so much more. Whether you want to learn to do it yourself, or are just curious about what goes on in the mind of a DJ, this workshop will be fun, informative, and full of great music!

Tune in virtually! We will set up a Zoom option for out-of-towners! We’ll send out a private Zoom link via email Thurs/Fri before the workshop. (You will be able to ask questions via the chat, but we ask that you remain muted.) If attending virtually, please register no later than 10am PST on April 19th or you may not receive your Zoom link in time!

When: Sunday, May 18, 2025 11:00am-1:30pm

Location: Lowdown Ballroom, Seattle and online via Zoom

Cost: $25

Register at: https://square.link/u/0FHM8hog

**This will NOT be recorded. We ask that you PLEASE not record any portion of this workshop. We've had classes stolen before, and would like to protect our intellectual property. Thank you for your understanding.

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm

LEARN TO SWING DANCE

Join our Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Collegiate Shag class series and explore the comforts of good partnering, dance history, and dynamic social dancing! Classes are five week series.

CLASSES ARE HELD AT GOTTA DANCE
17945 NE 65TH ST #100, REDMOND, WA 98052

Join veteran swing dancer and instructor Peter Flahiff for his internationally-acclaimed discussion, “The Art Of Social Dancing” Friday, May 9 at Cloudand Dance!

Drawing on thirty years of experience as a sought-after social dancer and teacher around the world, Peter shares amazing insights into what it means to be the best partner you can be, shedding light on many of the unspoken thoughts and fears we ALL have as dancers! It’s interactive and fun, full of stories and thought-provoking questions. Whether you’re new to the social dance world or you’ve been dancing for years, whether you’re on fire for dance or fighting through a plateau or burnout, this talk is for everyone!

Stay for the social dance after from 9:00-11:30pm! No drop in lesson this week

Art of Social Dancing is free with admission to the social.

Social Dance: $15

Swing outs, sugar pushes, quick stops, oh my! Join us every Friday night for our swing dance where top flight djs will bring you the hard swinging music and soulful tunes adored by swing dancers around the world. New to swing dancing? No problem! Take the Intro Lesson from 8:30-9:00pm, then dance the night away from 9:00-11:30pm