Beginners Lindy Hop dance course, NEW DATES!! 5 weeks, 8pm-9:30pm, starting Wednesday 25th of April 2012. Learn the partner dance that started them all in this intensive 5 week beginners class. We will focus on laying strong foundations in the language of Swing Dancing. Strengthen your style, your moves and your dance confidence. By the end of this class you'll have a solid grasp of Lindy Hop rhythm & musicality, connection, and a grab bag of moves that you can pull out on any dance floor. This dance will have you smiling, sweating, and wishing for more! Musicality and passion for the dance is my main focus in teaching. Limited spaces! To sign-up please send me your full name, if you're a lead or a follow. Full course is £45 per person, £80 per couple Bellow is an outline for what we will cover the sessions. Please wear comfortable clothes and preferably leather soled shoes or dress shoes with a smooth sole, high heels are great if your comfortable wearing them :-). 8:00pm to 9:30pm, starting Wednesday, 11th of April 2012 (Following 4 dates are: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd of May) Week one: - The history of Lindy Hop and other social dances - The language of Swing dancing - Frame between lead and follow - Movement exercises for trust building in dance - Basic Lindy Hop steps for lead and follow Week two: - Basic Lindy Hop steps review - Frame review - Intro to Lindy basic Week three: - Basic "Lindy Turn" - Intro to simple moves in the basic Week four: - Review of Lindy turn - Review of move - More basic moves - Intro into transitions Week five: - Transitioning moves together - Combining all moves and basic Lindy turn - Musicality Week six: - Review of last five weeks - Playing and improvising with Lindy hop Website: www.mouthfulojam.com

*WEDNESDAYS, New start date!!! Beginners Lindy Hop dance course This class will be once a week for 5 weeks from 8pm-9:30pm, Wednesday evenings starting on the 11th of April 2012! Learn the partner dance that started them all in this intensive 5 week beginners class. We will focus on laying strong foundations in the language of Swing Dancing. Strengthen your style, your moves and your dance confidence. By the end of this class you'll have a solid grasp of Lindy Hop rhythm & musicality, connection, and a grab bag of moves that you can pull out on any dance floor. This dance will have you smiling, sweating, and wishing for more! Musicality and passion for the dance is my main focus in teaching. Limited spaces! To sign-up please send me your full name and if you are a lead or a follow. If you are bringing a partner please send their full name too and who will be a lead and who will be a follow. Full course is £45 per person, £80 per couple Bellow is an outline for what we will be covering in the sessions. Please wear comfortable clothes and preferably leather soled shoes or dress shoes with a smooth sole, high heels are great if your comfortable wearing them :-). 8:00pm to 9:30pm, starting Wednesday, 11th of April 2012 (Following 4 dates are: 18th, 25th of April and the 2nd and 9th of May) Week one: - The history of Lindy Hop and other social dances - The language of Swing dancing - Frame between lead and follow - Movement exercises for trust building in dance - Basic Lindy Hop steps for lead and follow Week two: - Basic Lindy Hop steps review - Frame review - Intro to Lindy basic Week three: - Basic "Lindy Turn" - Intro to simple moves in the basic Week four: - Review of Lindy turn - Review of move - More basic moves - Intro into transitions Week five: - Transitioning moves together - Combining all moves and basic Lindy turn - Musicality Week six: - Review of last five weeks - Playing and improvising with Lindy hop Website: www.mouthfulojam.com Blog: http://vintagedancing.blogspot.com/ FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/gaia.facchini#!/group.php?gid=216061753648 Private lessons are available. If there are any questions please feel free to contact me. I look forward to dancing with you. Location: The Salisbury Pub, 1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, Harringay London, N4 1JX For more details and to register (by sending me your full name) please e-mail: vintagedancing@googlemail.com or call Gaia: 07882753215

Mouthful O' Jam April, 2012!

Aprils Mouthful O' Jam has no fools just the hottest DJ's playing the hottest Jazz, Swing, Jump and Rhythm and Blues on original 78rpm recordings on probably the best 78 sound system around. Our very special guest DJ this month is the amazing Lady Kamikaze herself. As you know Lady K always brings something special to an evening when she DJ's and I'm sure this time it will be as hot as ever. Our usual spinners will keep you on your toes too. Tim Hellzapoppin', Kid Krupa and Swing Maniac.
The evening will start with a dance lesson from our very own American instructoress Gaia Hannan all for just £5 entry.

Mouthful O' Jam, March 3rd!

Mouthful O' jam is back after a hectic weekend that was EBI and wow what a weekend. Now back to normal and the fabulous mix of Swing, Jump, Hot Jazz, Rhythm and Blues and maybe some Blues too. Hot 78 spinners Tim Hellzapoppin', Kid Krupa and Swing Maniac will take you through your paces and maybe a special guest DJ this month too. Londons best known American Swing Instructoress will be teaching a class at 7:30pm then music all the way till 2am. £5 entry includes free lesson :-)

VENUE CHANGE!

Announcing Mouthful O' Jam's 2nd year Anniversary Special, in conjunction with the European Blues Invasion weekend!

VENUE CHANGE ALERT!!!!! Thursday night the 2nd of February will now be held at the Salisbury Pub on Green Lanes till 1am...!!!
Please spread the word!
See you soon.

http://europeanbluesinvasion.com/

Special Venue: Chat's Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London E9 6DF

Aside from our usual amazing line-up of wonderful music from our first class DJ's Tim Hellzapoppin, Kid Krupa and Swing Maniac, we will also be dancing to the sounds of the much loved Cakewalk Cafe Blues Orchestra. With a choice of 3 rooms of dancing, if that's not enough we have a roomful of fabulous dance instructors from the U.S. to choose from plus two dance competitions, a Vintage Costume contest with great prizes, from Revival Clothing, Colin Johnson Shoes to Dance Passes for European Events.

And the fun doesn't stop there, after Mouthful O' Jam your £20 MOJAS ticket will also get you into the EBI After-Party, which goes on till 5am. So don't forget to book your tickets asap.

- Vintage Costume contest
- Dance competitions
- Live band: Cake Walk Cafe Blues Orchestra
- 3 rooms of dancing
- Dancing from 8pm - 5am

EBI

http://europeanbluesinvasion.com/

European Blues Invasion!!!!

Learn to Blues Dance!

For the first time ever, Europe’s ‘Mouthful O’ Jam’ and America’s ‘Blues Recess’ are teaming up, to bring you an exciting 3-day blues dance event.

The ‘European Blues Invasion’ will gather the most innovative instructors from the around the globe, for a weekend of workshops, competitions, social dancing and atmospheric splendour.

Merging earthy soulful sounds (recorded on original shellac) and a love of vintage styling, with a mixture of dynamic and conceptual dance; the European Blues Invasion promises to be an unforgettable weekend you won’t want to miss.

With the very best in live music, over 20 hours of workshops, 3 late-night parties, exciting prizes and more still to be announced; it’s no surprise tickets are selling FAST. Register now at

www.europeanbluesinvasion.com