Here’s all important and good-to-know information and links about your swingomania weekend.
☞ Please note: If you got a Sunday’s Farewell Party wristband but you are not going please put it in our wristband-donation box at the check-in for others to collect! ☜
✸ NEW: This year, lunch will not be held in the gym auditorium, but in Pfarrsaal St. Anton just across the street. Info & address under “Lunch Location” also here in the info menu of the info page. ✸
INFO Check-in
➽ FRIDAY check-in times
15.15 – 15.30 h
17 – 17.30 h
19.30 – 22 h
Villa Leon, Nürnberg
➽ SATURDAY check-in
10.15–11 h
and during breaks
1st. floor, Preißlerschule Nürnberg
20–21 h
Villa Leon, Nürnberg
➽ Extras
You will receive your workshop and party tickets as well as ordered lunch/salad vouchers and shirts at the check-in.
INFO Workshops
➽ ADDRESS Classes
Gym halls at Preißlerschule
Preißlerstraße 6
90429 Nürnberg
Entrance via Paumgartnerstraße (link streetview)
➽ FOOD/DRINKS
We sell snacks, coffee, cake, tea, mineral water…
Please bring your own reusable cup or bottle to avoid unnecessary waste (also see next up drinks flatrate).
Eating room for ordered lunch: Pfarrsaal St. Anton just across the street. Info & address under “Lunch Location” also here in the info menu of the info page.
If you didn’t order catering: There are a couple of take-away places and restaurants if you need to buy lunch. Sunday many of them are closed, but not all.
Payment at our kiosk with CASH only.
Eating and drinking (except water) is not permitted inside the gym halls.
➽ Drinks FLATRATE
We offer refilling certain drinks for free: During the workshops you can refill coffee, tea und mineral water for free if you bring:
A) the swingomania reusable cup (2019)
OR
B) YOUR OWN reusable cup/bottle. You just have to buy our flatrate sticker at the kiosk for 5 € and stick it on your cup/bottle.
➽ SHOES
Please bring shoes for dancing with a bright-coloured sole! No black soles as they leave black marks on the floor.
Lunch location
➽ New place for eating together
On Saturday and Sunday we get catering in the St. Anton hall just across the street.
On Saturday and Sunday we get catering in the St. Anton hall just across the street.
One request: If you leave your seat towards the end of the break, please help to tidy up and wipe down your seat/table.
Sunday: Towards the end of the break we have to put the tables and chairs back as they were – please help us to put a table and chair back.
Entrance: Adam-Klein-Straße 45a – through the courtyard into the building by the church, through the hall/foyer to the Pfarrsaal.
Levels And tracks
➽ Is there FREE CHOICE of classes?
Your schedule can be flexible, especially if you dance both Blues and Lindy Hop. As long as you don’t go higher than your respective level, you can choose which classes you attend.
➽ What we mean by FUSION
swingomania wants to unite Blues and Lindy Hop and inspire you for both. In our so-called fusion classes, we melt Blues and Lindy Hop tracks together so that you can get closer to the feeling and music of the other dance even without basic knowledge.
SCHEDULE
➽ FRIDAY
| FRI | Villa Leon, Ballroom |
|---|---|
| 15.15 | Check-in |
| 15.30 – 17.00 |
BALBOA intermediate Alba & Gas |
| 17.00 | Check-in / break (order dinner for later!) |
| 17.30 – 19.00 |
SLOW BAL introduction Alba & Gas |
| 19.30 | Check-in |
| 20–1 | PARTY with the Gramophoniacs |
GYM HALLS
Main gym 1: 1. floor, entrance via check-in
Medium gym 2: 1. floor, entrance via check-in and stairs to top level
Vintage gym 3: on the other side of the courtyard
*depending on the size of the group the group might have to switch to another gym spontaneously.
➽ Workshop SATURDAY
| SAT | GYM HALL 1* | GYM HALL 2* | 3 VINTAGE* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.15 | Check-in | ||
| 11.00 | Welcome introduction | ||
| 11.15 | BLUES all Level Alba & Gas Lead and follow conversation How to have a dance conversation where two voices contribute and add to the moment. |
LINDY HOP int-adv Caroline & Cédric Pimp your swing out! We all love doing swingouts, we also love to surprise our partner or to be surprised by an unusual variation! Let’s explore! |
LINDY HOP beg-int Bénédicte & Laurent Minidip & Variations A famous and funny move. A good opportunity to explore possibilities when you have no contact with your partner. |
| 12.30 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 13.45 | LINDY HOP int-adv Alba & Gas Swing roots We take some old timers inspiration and explore different ways to dance according to different types of music. |
BLUES beg-int Bénédicte & Laurent Have fun with one move Explore a simple but fun move by changing energies and connections. |
LINDY HOP beg-int Caroline & Cédric 6 or 8? Don’t ask, just swing! We will practice some basic movements and change their shape and energy to make it last longer… or shorter! |
| 15.00 | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 15.30 | FUSION for Lindy Hoppers all Levels Bénédicte & Laurent Lindy and Blues – are they so different? Playing with energy of the music and of your partner, explore the borders of blues/lindy hop, and the “common ground” |
BLUES int-adv Alba & Gas Chicago triple We explore this idiom, using an element you know very well from Lindy Hop: the triple step |
BLUES beg-int Caroline & Cédric Move those hips Put some groove in your dance… and in your hips! |
| 16.45 | end of class | end of class | end of class |
➽ Workshop SUNDAY
| SUN | GYM HALL 1* | GYM HALL 2* | 3 VINTAGE* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.00 | check-in | ||
| 11.15 | LINDY HOP beg-int Bénédicte & Laurent Shadow & variations One of the basics of charleston style. Dancing side by side in charleston. |
BLUES beg-int Alba & Gas Fast blues Blues can be fast, slow, energetic, mellow, happy, ….it’s the magic of this deep music. We will explore tools to dance to fast music to enjoy fast dancing to it in socials! |
BLUES int-adv Caroline & Cédric Let’s connect with each other Dancing with a partner is about playing with different types of connections. Let’s figure that out! |
| 12.30 | lunch break | lunch break | lunch break |
| 13.45 | LINDY HOP int-adv Alba & Gas What a band, what a Swing out! Dance is linked to the music that is being played. It is the basic inspiration for our dance! |
FUSION beg-int Caroline & Cédric From Lindy Hop to Balroomin’ Blues… and vice versa We focus on the difference between swing and blues dance and make them co-exist together. |
BLUES int-adv Bénédicte & Laurent Make it funky Blues and funk have many common points. Let’s learn how to dance blues with a funky style. |
| 15.00 | break | break | break |
| 15.30 | BLUES all Level Caroline & Cédric Walk the line Translation, rotation, dance line… Let’s work on all these tools that we always use when we dance. |
LINDY HOP int-adv Bénédicte & Laurent Damage control 🙂 Sometimes the dance doesn’t happen like you expect. It can be an accident… or not. In both cases, you can play with it. |
LINDY HOP beg-int Alba & Gas Spice up your social dancing skills Our focus will be for you to enjoy your social dances even more. |
| 16.45 | good-bye, snowball | ||
| 17.15 | end, clean up |
Parties
☞ DANCE BINGO ☜
Get to know each other on the dance floor by playing dance bingo! In your check-in bag you will find a dance bingo card. If you properly fill it in and put it in our lottery box at the check-in you get the chance to win swingomania passes for next year. You have Friday & Saturday night to play, hand in your card latest sunday before the workshops end.
(Volunteers get an extra lottery ticket! Don’t forget to put it in the box for your fullfilled volunteer job)
➽ Thursday pre-Party
19–20 h Laminu Taster with Filip & Veronika
(not organized by swingomania)
Entrance fee 5 €
20–1 h Party (not organized by swingomania)
Entrance fee 10 € regular / 8 € reduced
If it gets too crowded, we will open a second dance floor with blues music.
Live: Rote Bühne house band (Swing)
Bar: Ja, Essen: Nein, nur kleine Snacks
Rote Bühne Vordere Cramergasse 11, Eingang E-Bau TH 9/ UG, 90478 Nürnberg
rote-buehne.de/service/anfahrt-location/
➽ Friday
20–1 h Party
2 dance floors: one for Swing, one for Blues
Live: Gramophoniacs (Swing & Blues)
Specials:
● Teacher’s introduction
Villa Leon, Schlachthofstraße/Philipp-Koerber-Weg 1, Nürnberg
Bar/Essen: YES! – Restaurant/Kneipe Cayhaus
⚑ Help the restaurant planning all your dinners! If you are at the Balboa Workshop(s) and want to have dinner between workshop and party you better select and pre-order your food in the break (17–17.30 h) so it will be ready after the workshop.
➽ Saturday
20–2 h
2 dance floors: one for Swing, one for Blues
Live:
● Gramophoniacs (Swing)
● Cédric Clerc (Blues)
Villa Leon, Schlachthofstraße/Philipp-Koerber-Weg 1, Nürnberg
Bar/Essen: yes – Restaurant/Kneipe Cayhaus
➽ Sunday
19–0 h
1 dance floor: Swing & Blues Mix
Live: The See See Riders (Swing & Blues)
Akademie LAB, Kulturwerkstatt Auf AEG (maps link), Fürther Straße 244d, Nürnberg
Bar/Essen: yes
⚑ Reservation at Restaurant Tellerrand very welcome!
☞ Please note: If you got a wristband for the Farewell Party but you are not going, please give it to someone who needs one or put it in our wristband-donation box at the check-in, as for the sunday farewell party not everyone got a spot. ☜
Code of conduct
➽ Well-being and being good to each other
We have collected and worked out some points to help you having a good time at our event and in our dance scene. If you haven’t yet you should read it, there might even be something there you haven’t been aware of.
www.thatswing.de/en/code-of-conduct