Hepcat Swing

Lindy Hop 5D
2025-02-25 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-04 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-11 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-18 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-25 20:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | Hepcat Swing Studio, 42 Erb St. E., Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 1L6, Canada
6 weeks of classes (Every Tuesday Feb 25 – Apr 2)
8:30-9:30pm
Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 4, or permission from the Teachers. Although this is a partner dance, you do not need to bring your own partner to class.
Each time this level of Lindy Hop is offered, it changes to meet the needs of the students. Some of the topics may include: rhythmic variations, connection, swivels, breaks, musicality, fancy footwork, 6/10/12/14 count moves, ochos, crossovers, grapevines, different connection points (wrist, shoulders, hips, ankles).

Teachers: Julie-Anne and Jeff

Lindy Hop 4A
2025-02-26 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-05 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-12 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-19 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-26 18:30 - 19:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Wednesday Feb 26 – Apr 3)
6:30-7:30pm
Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 3 or you permission from the teacher.
Drills for Skills! This class is focused on high quality connection, movement and Lead/Follow skills. It is not a move based class, but drills based. It will help you develop into a top-notch dancer, one who is smooth on the dance floor, has the capabilities of improvising and adding musicality to their dance, who looks graceful or funky. This is a great class for those continuing their Lindy Hop journey as well as experienced dancers who may not have taken lessons for years, but would like to clean up their moves.

Teachers: Jeff and Amy

Lindy Hop 2
2025-02-26 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-12 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-26 19:30 - 20:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Wednesday Feb 24 – Apr 3)
7:30-8:30pm

Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 1 or the ability to comfortably do a swing out from open and closed. No partner necessary.
This class will teach you several new variations on swing outs and fancy new moves. It will also continue to teach the history of Lindy Hop dancing, as well as musicality and connection techniques. This is a great class for experienced dancers who would like to refresh their dance vocabulary or brush up on their technique.

Lindy Hop 1
2025-02-26 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-05 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-12 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-19 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-03-26 20:30 - 21:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Wednesday Feb 26 – Apr 3)
8:30-9:30pm
No dance experience necessary! Although this is a partner dance, you do not need to bring your own partner.
This is a great class to get started with partnered swing dancing and social dancing in general! We will go from the very basics of Lindy Hop and work through enough material to get you dancing comfortably. We will also learn some history of the Lindy Hop and why we are still dancing it today. Taking this class would be a great opportunity for experienced dancers who’d like to refresh their basics or learn a new role.

Teachers: Dylan and Catherine

Ballroom Blues 2 (Close Embrace)
2025-03-03 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-10 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-24 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-03-31 18:30 - 19:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Monday Feb 24 – Apr 1)
6:30-7:30pm
Prerequisite Ballroomin’ Blues 1. No partner necessary.
This class will continue with the concepts taught in Ballroomin’ Blues 1. It will focus on a new kind of connection, the close embrace, which makes the dance even smoother and easier to follow! Come and glide with us across the dance floor as we learn to connect, flow, and work together to create a beautiful, groovy dance! The skills learned in this dance will help to improve all of your swing dance styles.

Teachers: Connie and Julie-Anne

Lindy Hop 4B
2025-03-04 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-11 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-18 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-25 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-01 19:30 - 20:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Tuesday Feb 25 – Apr 2)
7:30-8:30pm
Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 4A or permission from the teachers.
In this class we will continue to elevate your 4A skills like the high quality connection, movement and Lead/Follow skills you have been mastering. We will now take all these wonderful building blocks and apply them to connection isolation – which brings us to every Follows’ favourite embellishment: SWIVELS! Leaders don’t worry, we’ve got you covered too. The applications for you are how to enter on 2 and creating your own style. But, that’s not all! An added bonus for both Leads and Follows is a new move called switches!

Teachers: Jeff and Julie-Anne
