Welcome to JAZZ INC: Lindy Hop and Swing Dancing in Singapore

Thanks for taking time to swing by!  Here you will find details of CLASSES that I conduct in Singapore and SCHEDULE around the world, Swing Dance EVENTS, as well as regular updates of historical and contemporary bytes surrounding Swing – the music, the dance, and personalities.  Do browse through the different pages/categories, and the archives.  Leave a comment with the posts, and if you have any queries or feedback or requests, drop me a line!

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SOCIAL DANCING: SWING BY BELLINI!

Every Tuesday, swing by the Bellini Room, at St James Power Station, 3 Sentosa Gateway (next to Vivocity), from 9pm till late, to DJ-ed tunes as well as Stephen Francis’s Swing Band (10pm).  FREE!

MAP: http://maps.singaporeexpats.com/showmap.php?name=ST.%20JAMES%20POWER%20STATION&desc=BUILDING&postal=098544

Blues Workshops 8/2 (Wed), 10/2 (Fri) by Fred Ngo

Blues Workshops — Get Your Blues On

Cost: $32/clsss, $60 for both

Where: JMDC Studio, Suntec City, #03-13 (Near Toys R Us, in the alcove), 730-9pm

In recent years, blues dancing has become popular with Lindyhoppers and social dancers worldwide. Like most swing dances, blues is rooted deeply in early African American culture. The key to this unique dance is a focus on improvisation and connection with your partner and the music.

In these workshops, we will learn connection and improvisation techniques and concepts such as simplicity, subtlety, clarity, creativity, intensity, body control and isolation, listening, and musical interpretation. The connections among these concepts are critical to advanced social dancing and will greatly improve your Lindy Hop (and make it a lot more fun, as well).

We will start from blues movement basics and dive as deep as we can into the world of blues. Come prepared to move your body in ways you’ve never done before and don’t be surprised if your core muscles are pleasantly sore after the workshop!

Bio

Fred is an ambassador of the Canadian Lindy Hop community and one of its greatest pioneers and individual contributors.  He has been teaching Lindy Hop for 13 years. In 1998, he founded Cat’s Corner (http://catscorner.ca), the longest-running dance school in Canada solely dedicated to Lindy Hop and other swing dances. Since then, he has taught thousands of dancers the joy of Lindy Hop. He is widely acknowledged as the “father” of Lindy Hop in his hometown of Montreal, Canada, and also in Kingston, Ontario, where he founded the Queen’s University Swing Dance Club.

ALMOST CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS AND PARTY (10th and 11th Dec)

ALMOST CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS AND PARTY

Swing-out Korean Style,10^th Dec, 330-630pm@JMDC Suntec City

Swing by for a special workshop where Ashley Choi will share her knowledge and experience teaching in Korea to the Singapore, with Sinclair Ang assisting.  The workshop will be split up into two segments:

330-5pm: Fundamentals – This class will focus on the fundamentals of connection and partner-work and help you achieve a sense of satisfaction dancing with your partner, as well as explore the finer points of lead and follow.

5-630pm: Play Time – This class will help you play with variations and styling within your partner-work without losing that connection with your partner.

The Lindy Drill

11^th Dec, 230-430pm@Popstars City, Millenia walk

This is a special workshop where some variations will be taught, and levels of difficulty will be added to them, and then, it’s practice, practice, practice!  The practice session will help you get comfortable with the variations taught, with the help of several teachers at the session, including Brian Ang, Ashley Choi, and Sinclair Ang, who will also give some personal attention to your dancing.

Register: sinclair.ang@gmail.com

Cost - Both days: $85; Saturday: $55 for both/$30 for 1; Sunday: $35

Admin Charge (payment on the day): $5

Where:

Suntec City

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Popstars City (Millenia Walk, 9 Raffles Boulevard, #02-29/30/31)

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Party

After the workshop on Saturday Dec 10^th, we would head on down to Brussel Sprouts (902 East Coast Parkway
Block F Unit #01-27
Playground @ Big Splash
Singapore 449874) to have dinner and swing-out. There will be a taster class (come find out what it is!) at some point in the evening, and there will be TWO SPECIAL COMPETITIONS in the night, the latter one starting only LATE, so swing by!

MAP: http://maps.singaporeexpats.com/showmap.php?name=PLAYGROUND%20@%20BIG%20SPLASH&desc=BUILDING&postal=449874

Party Rock Charleston Workshop (TBC) + Charleston Workshop (29/11)

PARTY ROCK CHARLESTON WORKSHOP

Monday (TBC)@JMDC Studio (Suntec), $28 

You have seen LMFAO and their crew do it, now swing by and learn the REAL ORIGINAL SHUFFLE, called the CHARLESTON, done in the 1920s, that forms the basis of quite a few of the moves from the Party Rock Charleston video, as well as some hip hop moves you see these days. Of course we’ll use the song to Charleston to. No experience or partner needed!

ALSO: there will be  a charleston workshop, 730-9pm at Gallery Bar next to Bellini Room (St James Powerstation) on 29 Nov ($17).  Brian Ang (the instructor) has new insights to share about approaching Charleston.  so email to register!