Easy Swing Out Workshop
🕺✨ Easy Swing Out Workshop 28.02/01.03✨🕺
Lindy Hop Workshop – Cat & Andreas
🎉 Mastering this classic move is essential for any Lindy Hopper, regardless of level. That’s why during this workshop, you’ll dive deep into the technique, musicality and styling that make Swing Outs truly shine.
Come ready to learn and leave feeling more confident and natural on the dance floor!
📍 Where: Tanzräume Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Str. 275
📅 When: Sat and Sun (28.02/01.03)
🕒 Time: Sat 10h-13h (beg/int) Sun 17h-20h (int/adv)
🎟️ Book Early – Spots are Limited! Maximum 20 per Level
💥 Weekend Program:
Get ready for 2 workshops with 3-hour session each level. You can join for just one session or dive into the full weekend for the ultimate experience with 6 hours 🙂
If you love swing parties, but would like to enjoy more dancing to different styles of swing music and different partners, this weekend might have the secret for you! Getting comfortable with the most popular lindy hop move – swing-out is a life journey and Cat & Andreas will give you some magic tricks to be more floaty, musical and playful while you perform those fancy moves on the dance floor.
Expect a full weekend workout on: swing-out technique & styling, 6- to 8-count transitions, cool entrances and exits & footwork variations to lead/follow dynamics and feeling happy!
🌟 This workshop is for the ones that want:
🕒 3 hours of creative transitions, playful technique and comunication-driven
🎶 Learn how to dance smooth as a feather like Cat and playful charming like Andreas
💥The goal is to improve your ideas while providing a stretchy connection and effortless communication
💃 Perfect if you want to be more confident, relaxed and spontaneous dancer
🎷Lindy Hop – Happy Emotions
🔹 Why shall I learn Lindy Hop with Cat & Andreas?
Cat & Andreas are professional dance instructores and performers, they have been dancing for 15 years and teach all swing dance styles for more than 10 years, as a full time job. Cat lives in Berlin but is naturally from Lisbon and Andreas is from Tessaloniki but currently lives in Athens. Together they create classes filled with laughter, music, and a supportive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless their skills. Dancing Lindy Hop is a life time passion and these two teachers will inspire you in a fantastic way to stay fit and social active, bringing you to a lovely dance community while improving your coordination, strength, confidence and flexibility 🙂
You will finally get the right tools to break musicality into drills and automatically you will feel in your dance. Expect with Cat & Andreas to learn the next topics:
🎵 Musicality in Swing Outs – That Feels Practical:
- How to hear phrase changes and use it for swing outs
- How to react to breaks live and match the song melody
- Playing with rhythm variations and surprise your partner
- Call-and-response ideas being present and aware
- How to dance differently swing outs
🔥 Texture & Groove Quality in Swing Outs:
- How to look less “step-y” into swing outs
- How to groove deeper and use all your body and soul
- Weight transfer clarity with clean footwork
- Pulse refinement and being able to exchange that
- Texture changes (smooth vs sharp)
🎭 Improvisation Without Chaos
Cat & Andreas like freedom — but structured freedom
- How to improvise safely – they have some tricks
- When to break patterns – there is the right time for everything
- Micro-variations inside basics – being more fun and enjoy each second
- Partner listening skills – exchange ideas and be open to explore what the others say
💪 Improvisation Without Chaos
- Speed control – very useful to adapt each situation
- Micro-timing – nothing is forever and we help you to react fast to surprises
- Connection elasticity – all your body needs to be there and together
- Intentional leading/following – prepare before you throw your ideas
- Rhythm layering – enjoy each melody
- How to look and feel effortless – being a relaxed and confident dancer it`s the goal
Cat & Andreas will make this weekend a super pleasant ride, focus in the dance progression of their students and hopefully everyone will be ready to move on and jump for a higher level 🙂 So let`s get ready and open your mind in exploring other ways to better perform our swing fundamentals. Together we will find “success” in every dance and every partner.
✅ Lindy Hop Beginner/Intermediate
(Saturday 10:00-13:00)
🧠 What to expect:
- The fundamental Lindy Hop rhythm and footwork
- Basic lead & follow techniques in side by side and open positions
- Simple turns and partner transitions
- Tips for dancing to slow to media tempos with ease
- A fun, welcoming atmosphere to build your confidence
👉 Requiremets:
You need some experience in swing dancing. You are curious about swing music and want to explore more dancing to it! You are in between levels, no longer a totally beginner but not yet confident to be in an intermediate level class. You have been dancing Lindy Hop for about 6 months and want to express better with your body and floating gracefully with your partner moving around the dance floor together!
✅ Lindy Hop Intermediate/Advanced
(Sunday 17:00-20:00)
🧠 What to expect for Lindy Hop Intermediate/Avdanced workshop:
- Musical phrasing and how to play with rhythm
- Partner connection techniques for more flow and clarity
- Combinations & styling that you can use on the social floor
- Tips to handle medium and fast tempos with confidence and control
- Expect a fun challenge, a good workout, and lots of “aha!” moments
- Detailed breakdown of posture, frame, pulse, and footwork
- Precision in stretch, compression, and counterbalance
- Conversation-based dancing — where followers and leaders co-create
👉 Requiremets:
You want to push your dancing to the next level? This course is designed for experienced dancers who love to go to swing parties and enjoy dancing as many swing outs they can to different styles of music. This level is perfect for you if you have been dancing Lindy Hop on a regular basis for a year or more and you like fast tempos and like different dance personalities. You are ready to explore complex music challenges and want to grow in body energy control!
You are on the way to reach a smooth elastic connection on 4C and 1C dancing swing outs and you want to be able to float organically and feeling as a block, without extra tension or awkward gaps between you and your partner! Actions and reactions need a clean spontaneous sign and time and finally you are starting feeling art all over your heart <3
🧺 Breaks & Fun
📸 Photo Picture together & Video Class Recap of the teachers – to have a good souvenir of this day and not forget what you learn
- Comfy shoes or dance sneakers
- Water and energy (we’re gonna move!)
- Your personality—because Swing is as much about attitude as it is about steps
🎟️ Ticket Options
Choose what fits you the best and save some money with our discount options 💸
Single Ticket – 1 workshop (3 hours) – 45€
Couple Ticket – 1 workshop (3 hours) – 80€
Single Ticket – 2 workshops (6 hours) – 80€
Couple Ticket – 2 workshops (6 hours) – 150€
Single Ticket is when you register without a partner! Couple Ticket is when you register 2 people (with your partner)
👉 Secure your spot now – limited capacity for maximum 20 dancers per workshop!
This isn’t just class—it’s a full-on dance adventure. Your brain and body will thank you 😉