£6 Non-members / £5 Members

 

Beginners Class: 7:30 - 8:30pm

Social Event & Live Music: 8:30 - 11:00pm

 

Complete with a beautiful dance floor and lots of friendly swing dancers. Enjoy the swingin’ sounds of local band, Iain Mann and the Hot Club of Cambridge and even learn how to trip the light fantastic yourself with a fun lindy hop taster dance class at 7.30pm (suitable for complete beginners).

 

Cambridge Lindy Hoppers is a non-profit society aimed at promoting Lindy Hop and other forms of swing dancing in Cambridge. Since starting out in 2006 as small group of Lindy Hoppers in Cambridge who came together to share a common enthusiasm for Lindy Hop swing dancing, they have grown into a very active scene which runs classes and social dancing two nights a week and holds regular workshops and events.

 

Ever wondered what it would be like to dance like in the movies of the 1930s and 40s? Like in those old black and white films where you hear the sound of some unbelievable jazz band, and then the camera pans from the band to the crowd and everyone’s swinging out like crazy?

 

That old dance style is called Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, or sometimes just Swing Dancing. Cool. The story goes that Shorty George Snowden and Mattie Purnell invented the dance in 1928 during a dance marathon at the Rockland Palace Ballroom in New York. Snowden later christened it the “Lindy Hop”, possibly as a variation on the earlier (unrelated) “Lindbergh Hop”, named in honour of aviator Charles Lindbergh. During the 1980s and 90s there was a huge revival in Lindy Hop, and today it is again danced by thousands of people all over the world.