Thursday Night Teaching & Dancing
Swing, Ballroom, Latin, Rounds, & Variety Dances
Saint Mary's Episcopal Church at 13th & Pearl Streets in Eugene.
Dance teaching from 7:30 - 9:00 : Requests taken
Open dancing from 9:00 - 10:00 Playing dance tunes and your requests
$5.00 per person drop-in / $15.00 per month /

Although our primary teaching and dancing focuses on swing, lindy hop, latin, and other ballroom dances,
we also do some variety dances and dances not usually found in a ballroom setting such as Hambo, shim-sham, and Salty Dog Rag.
Our Teaching Schedule will focus on a different Featured Dance each month. See the schedule below.
We also review dances by request, help beginners,
and may revive other dances of interest in addition to our mainstay of swing, latin, and ballroom dances.
                                    
             Summer Schedule                                      Dancing will begin at 7:30 during the months of July & August.

             Dance Teaching Schedule
             Oct 26th with Sam & Gus: Monster Mash   Monster Mash     Notes
             Dec 15th with Sam & Gus: Swing Basics Review      
             Dec 21rst with Sam & Gus: Cha Cha Review      
             Dec 28th with Sam & Gus: Shim Sham       Notes
             Jan 5th with Sam & Gus: Street Fair - Revised Easy Round Dance   Street Fair     Notes
             Jan 11th with Sam & Gus: Zydeco Basics       Notes
             Jan 18th with Sam & Gus: Turkish Kiss & Zydeco Review   Turkish Kiss     Notes
             Jan 25th with Sam & Gus: Pols-Hambo - Scandinavian Couple Dance & Cha Cha Review       Notes
             Feb 1rst with Sam & Gus: Swing & Cha Cha combinations / Pols-Hambo review      
             Feb 8th with Sam & Gus: Salsa, Mambo, Charleston, Shim-Sham, & Pols-Hambo review      
             Feb 16th with Sam & Gus: Salsa, Rounds - Could I Have This Dance   Could I Have This Dance     Notes
             Feb 25th with Sam & Gus: Swing & Charleston combinations, Mambo, Rounds      
             Mar 1rst with Sam & Gus: Review Rounds & Open Dancing      
             Mar 8th with Sam & Gus: Hop-Step Polka, Swing: pretzel basics      
             Mar 15th with Sam & Gus: Hop-Step Polka & Irish variations, Swing: pretzel basics      
             Mar 22nd with Sam & Gus: swing with Cha Cha variations      
             Mar 29th with Sam & Gus: swing & Charleston variations      
             April 5th with Sam & Gus: Swing & Polka variations      
             April 12th with Sam & Gus: No Dancing due to instructor injury      
             April 19th with Sam & Gus: Reviews-Basic Foxtrot variations - 2-step, westchester, & Magic steps      
             April 26th with Sam & Gus: One-step & foxtrot variations, Choreography concepts for leading & following      
             May 3rd with Sam & Gus: English Box-Waltz Basics & Integrating Round Dance Waltz sequences      
             May 10th with Sam & Gus: Waltz Basics & Basic Box-Waltz Variations including vines, twinkles, and wraps      
             May 17th with Sam & Gus: Waltz Turning Basics, & further waltz variations      
             May 24th with Sam & Gus: Sagital Waltz Turns, & Integrating Round Dance sequences for Waltz      
             May 31rst with Sam & Gus: Viennese Waltz, & Waltz topics      
             June 7th with Sam & Gus: Introduction to Cha Cha & Rhumba      
             June 14th with Sam & Gus: Cha Cha & Rhumba review      
             June 21rst with Sam & Gus: Cha Cha variations, review, & a Cha Cha round dance      
             June 28th with Sam & Gus: Rhumba variations & Cuban hip movement ,Cha Cha review      
             July 5th with Sam & Gus: Introduction to City Swing      
             July 12th with Sam & Gus: Swing & variations      
             July 19th with Sam & Gus: Integrating Swing with other dances      
             July 26th with Sam & Gus: City Swing variations & review      

                                     Summer Schedule
                                     Dancing will begin at 8:00 during the months of July & August.


                                     Upcoming Rounds & Variety Dances
                                     Ba La - Cha Cha Mixer      
                                     Folsom Prison Blues - Cha Cha Round      
                                     Roses For Elizabeth - Rhumba Round      
                                                                         
                                     Featured Dance Schedule
                                     May Waltz
                                     June Cha Cha
                                     July Swing
                                     Aug. TBA
                                     Sep. TBA
                                     Oct. TBA
                                     Nov. TBA
                                     Dec. TBA
                                     Jan. TBA
                                     Feb. TBA
                                     Mar. TBA
                                     Apr. TBA
                                    

Questions and inquiries may be sent to the
following email address: folkdance@blindjester.com