Lindy Hop workshop

about building confidence with solo jazz and incorporating it into partnered dancing

Wanna grow as a dancer and jazz up your Lindy Hop?

Join us for a fun and inspiring weekend with Coline & Claudia from France in Aarhus! Together, we’ll explore the basics of dancing to swing jazz, focusing on how solo jazz and partnered Lindy Hop fit together. This weekend will help you build your confidence, express your own style, and make partner dancing more enjoyable and interactive as you and your partner inspire each other on the dance floor.

We’ll also talk about the culture of jazz music and dance, and our place in it, during a Friday night community discussion with Coline and Claudia—followed by social dancing. Saturday features an intermediate/advanced class and an evening swing party with a live band. On Sunday, there’s another open-level class. Each session will help you build confidence in adding solo steps to your Lindy Hop. You can join one or both days. We can’t wait to jazz with you!

We start with Friday Night Social with Community Talk

19.00 - 20.00: Community discussion with Coline & Claudia about being guests within Jazz culture
20.00 - 22.00: Social dance with DJ
Place: tba

Sunday price: 400 DKK
(both for students and regular price)

Saturday (workshop) - Interm/advanced

7TH march, 11:00 - 16:00 (with 1 hour lunch break),
Place: Frederiksbjerg Skole, Ingerslevs Blvd. 2, 8000 Aarhus, entrance C

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• ALH members: You are currently taking Level 3 or have taken it at least once.

• Other dancers: You have at least 4 years of experience taking regular classes and social dancing.

If in doubt about your level, don´t hesitate to contact us!

Swinging Saturday party - open to all

19:30 - 20:30: Taster /Open solo jazz class 
20:30 - 22:00: Social dance with live band

Place: Klostercafeen

SUNDAY (workshop) - open level

8TH march, 10:30 - 16:00 (with 1.5 hour lunch break)
Place: Frederiksbjerg Skole, Ingerslevs Blvd. 2, 8000 Aarhus, entrance C

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• open level

• ALH members: You must have completed at least one semester of Level 1 (at least once).

  All other dancers: You must have at least 6 months of regular class experience.

If in doubt about your level, don´t hesitate to contact us!

ABOUT THE TEACHERS

coline Avril

I’m a professional dancer and passionate educator. I’m working with a few companies based on both art forms: dance and theatre.

I contributed to my own local swing community, creating the school ‘happy jam’ in Rouen, France. I believe in the collective power, in the social aspect for transmitting, honouring cultures and human values. 

I’m sharing jazz dance in the format of solo and partner dance. What is important to me? That everybody can express themselves freely. To understand, be connected and communicate with the music, rhythms, and culture. To be able to explore, grow as a dancer and as a human. 

Having swing music source of inspiration, she embraces diverse, playful ways to develop herself as a human being while connecting to the jazz world.

Claudia admires and studies the roots of jazz dance and music as a never-ending process in the development of her communication and self-expression through this art form.

She’s constantly revisiting her role in the jazz world, redefining what that music gives to her so she can contribute back.