Welcome to Full Swing Vintage Dance Company!
Have fun, get fit, meet awesome people – learn to swing dance with Wellington’s original vintage dance school!
Lindy Hop Beginner Classes
New 6 week course starts 1 November
Wednesdays at 6pm
$100, or $80 if you’re a student, CSC or gold card holder
If you are brand new, have just finished your first beginner block, or want to start from scratch head on over and register for one of the beginner classes. We will look at our Charleston and 8 count and 6 count basic footwork, as well as some awesome moves for both – we do different moves every block, so if it’s your second go through you’ll be learning new things and adding to your repertoire!
Email dance@fullswing.co.nz to book your spot!
Lindy Hop Improver Classes
New 6 week course starts 30 October or 1 November
Mondays Improver 1 at 6pm
or Wednesdays Improver 2 at 7.15pm
$100, or $80 if you’re a student, CSC or gold card holder
NOTE: If you’re moving up from beginner our new Monday Improver 1 class is best – the Wednesday Improver 2 class moves a bit quicker and assumes more knowledge. Have a chat to us if you aren’t sure!
Improver classes are all about taking what you know from beginners and making it really work! We dive deeper into Charleston, 6 count and 8 count, add a bunch more moves, and really get stuck into leading and following. We recommend doing the beginner block twice before moving up, to make sure your foundations are solid and you have the basic moves down – have a chat to us if you are not sure!
Email dance@fullswing.co.nz to book your spot!
Lindy Hop Intermediate/Advanced Classes
New 6 week course starts 30 October
Mondays at 7.15pm
$100, or $80 if you’re a student, CSC or gold card holder
Join us for a deeper dive on moves, technique, musicality, social dancing and putting the fun in fundamentals! This class will need an even-ish balance of leaders and followers to be fun.
Please let us know when you register if you intend to lead or follow in the class
Email dance@fullswing.co.nz to book your spot!
Lindy Hop Beginner Bootcamp
Saturday 4 November *NEW DATE*
$75 with pre- registration or $90 on the day
Come and learn all the basics of a beginner Lindy course in one day – or brush up on what you’ve learned this block in the beginner course and get ready for improver! Learn the foundations over four classes, and you’ll be having heaps of fun on the social dance floor by the end!
This is the last Bootcamp of 2023, so make sure you don’t miss out!
Email dance@fullswing.co.nz to book your spot!
Sunday Social Sessions
Date TBC
$5 on the door
We mix up the social floor with up fast Balboa music, some blues grooves and our favourite Lindy tunes so there will be music for everyone!
This is a child friendly, super relaxed and fun event for all.
Looking forward to dancing with you!!
COVID Guidelines
We appreciate everyone doing everything they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other illnesses at our venue.
- Please wash your hands and use the hand sanitiser provided
- Masks are not required but you are welcome to wear one
- Please respect other people’s comfort levels too – be chill if someone else wants to wear a mask or have more space than you
If you are sick or required to isolate, do not attend. If you have a cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms, please get a test and stay at home until you are well.
Contact Us
Email dance@fullswing.co.nz to register for a class or find out more
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Dance Styles
When someone says “swing dance”, Lindy Hop is likely what they’ve got in mind.
It’s energetic, quirky, irreverent, and dynamic… but most of all it’s fun!
In the ballrooms of 1930s Balboa Island, California, the jazz was fast and hot
and the dance floors were tightly packed – and Balboa was the beautiful result!
An elegant, energetic swing dance with intricate footwork, a close connection and incredible style.
The roaring twenties were a decade of decadence, rebellion, glamour and social change,
and at the forefront leading the way was the biggest dance craze in history!
The Charleston turned all the accepted rules of dance upside down and inside out,
and set the scene for all the dancing we know and love today!
Our solo jazz classes focus on moves from the first half of the 20th century (and a little bit more).
The lights are low, it’s the end of the night and the party’s moved from the
hectic jumping jazz of the ballrooms to the houses of Harlem.
The rent parties, the speakeasies, the back alley dive bars and dingy saloons,
where the bootleg liquor gets passed around and the music gets real slow –
that’s where you find the blues!
Blues dance is all about music, connection, and creativity.
It’s slow, it’s groovy, and it’s definitely very cool!
What could be better than stomping your feet and making a lot of noise?
Stomping your feet and making a lot of noise with style!
The iconic dance of vaudeville and musicals, tap dancing is one of the most
widely recognised, entertaining and above all fun styles of dance around.
Come along and follow in the footsteps of Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers!
Class Pricing
Casual classes $20
6 week block courses $100, or $80 for students, CSC or gold card holders