Hepcat Swing

Teacher's Choice - CANCELLED
2025-09-22 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Hepcat Swing Studio, 42 Erb St. E., Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 1L6, Canada
Hepcat teachers are back at it again with a grab-bag of moves, techniques, and styles. We don’t know what they are going to teach, and they might not either until they start talking. What we do know, though, is that this is a chance to level up your dancing in a big and exciting way!
Note: comfort with an 8-count Lindy swing out is required for this material.
Drop-in is available, so stop by a few minutes early and we can get you registered! Here are the drop-in rates: General $25, Student/Member $20.

Weekly Monday Night Dances
2025-09-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-29 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-06 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-20 19:30 - 22:00
Like many new skills, dancing is best learned by doing! We are doing our best to provide you with opportunities to come out and dance, socialize, and listen to great music.
Almost every Monday night at Hepcat Swing, we feature great swing music to keep you dancing all night! We are a friendly bunch of people who love to see new faces out on a Monday night! The dancing starts at 8:00, with an introductory lesson at 7:30 included in the admission price to get you started (no partner or experience required). Dancing ends around 10:00, depending on how much fun we are having!
Important note: Please use our Facebook or Instagram pages to confirm whether the dance is happening for a given week (it’s faster for us to update our social media than this website, so we often make announcements there first).
Admission
General Admission: $12
Members and Students: $10
*Admission payments will be taken at the door.

Lindy Hop 2/3
2025-09-23 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-09-30 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-07 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-14 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-10-21 18:30 - 19:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Tuesday, Sept. 23 – Oct. 28)
6:30-7:30 pm
Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 1, or permission from the teacher.

So, you’ve got the basics down, but anything beyond that feels a bit shaky. This class is meant to give you some newer moves and variations to jazz up your social dancing and make you feel more confident. We will build on what you already know and give you new moves and variations to add some stuff to that tool belt. Get ready, set, here we go!

Lindy Hop 5 - All Rhythm Go 5X5
2025-09-23 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-09-30 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-21 19:30 - 20:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Tuesday, Sept. 23 – Oct. 28)
7:30-8:30 pm
Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 4, or permission from the teacher.
Teachers are Catherine and Tobias!
This series focuses on rhythm as the engine of Lindy Hop. Each week highlights a different rhythmic “layer” that dancers can use to expand their vocabulary and play with the music. The emphasis is on versatility: moving between 6-count, 8-count, Charleston, half-time, and breakaway rhythms… sometimes in a single dance. Students will learn to recognize, embody, and transition between rhythms, and to build improvisational choices that stay true to the swing feel.

Lindy Hop 4B
2025-09-23 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-09-30 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-07 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-14 20:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-21 20:30 - 21:30
6 weeks of classes (Every Tuesday, Sept. 23 – Oct. 28)
8:30-9:30 pm
Prerequisite is Lindy Hop 4A or permission from the teachers.
In this class, we will continue to elevate your 4A skills, such as 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 Follow’s 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!

Swing 0: Guide to Swing Dancing
2025-09-24 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-01 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:00
6 weeks of classes (Every Wednesday, Sept 24 – Oct 29)
7:00-8:00 pm
Have you always wanted to learn how to dance, but didn’t think you could? This is the course for you! Join us for six weeks of super fun, super accessible swing dance basics designed to get you up and moving to the music as quickly and as confidently as possible. Anyone can do this class! :). We’ll explore the basics of connection with your body, the music, and another person, all skills that can be applied to other styles of dancing as well.
No partner or experience needed, just your dancing shoes and a smile!

Lindy Hop 1
2025-09-24 20:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-01 20:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-08 20:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-15 20:00 - 21:00
6 weeks of classes (Every Wednesday Sept 22 – Oct 27)
8:00-9:00pm
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.

Annual General Meeting (AGM)
2025-09-27 13:00 - 17:00
The date has been set for Hepcat Swing’s Annual General Meeting.
If you are a member please join us from 1pm-5pm.
