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Wednesday Night Hop condemns the continued police violence against the Black community and we stand with Black Lives Matter.
Wednesday February 14
6:45 pm: Doors open
7:05-8:05 pm: Adventure & Deep Dive Classes
8:15-9:15 pm: Beginners & Core Concepts Classes
8:15-9:15 pm: Newcomer Taster Class
9:30-11:30 pm: DJ Dance Party
9:30-10:30 pm: Balentine's Day in Fast Room
Register online NOW.
We won't be taking payments at the door.
We made some changes:
- We only allow class series drop-ins on the 1st and 2nd weeks of the month.
- You can register for the class series until the 2nd week of the month.
- Starting in February, the Newcomer Taster class is $16 on DJ nights and $26 on live music nights. The dance admission is included.
- We don't allow students join the Taster lesson past 8:25 pm to ensure all participants have heard safety tips in the beginning of the lesson.
- Our events are still fully masked during the lessons and open dance.
Balentine's Day in Fast Room (9:30-10:30 pm)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Lindy Hop is great
And we ♥ balboa too
Celebrate Balentine’s Day at WNH! Every 2nd Wednesday of the month, we have the fast room for all of our balboa and shag lovers with DJ Chris Ortega.
Photo by Clever Plum Photos
Newcomer Taster Class (8:15-9:15 pm)
All levels are welcome; no dance experience is necessary!
Jump-start into partnered dancing and enjoy entry to the social dance afterward to practice your new skills and meet new friends.
DJ Dance Party (9:30-11:30 pm) with DJs Stacey Park & Robert Gatdula
No partner or experience is required, just show up with comfortable shoes. We would love to dance with you!
February Progressive Series (4 weeks)
Check out the descriptions below for this month's class series. You can register for drop-in classes on first and second classes of the series if you cannot attend the whole month.
Beginner FUNdamentals (8:15-9:15 pm)
6- and 8-count Lindy Hop
Come learn Lindy Hop! You'll build the dance from the basics while learning some of the history of this Black American art form. Our progressive classes are designed to get you social dancing and having a blast at our weekly dance parties in no time.
PRE-REQUISITES
Series first week: None. Two-left-feet friendly, no partner required; just bring comfy shoes and your enthusiasm!
Other weeks: You will be expected to build on material learned in the previous weeks.
FORMAT: There are four months of distinct curriculum mixing 6ct, 8ct, and Charleston.
- 6-count Lindy Hop
- 6- and 8-count Lindy Hop
- 8-count Lindy Hop
- 8-count Lindy Hop & Charleston
w/ Gaurab Banerjee, Sol Zitter
Core Concepts (8:15-9:15 pm)
Building on Your Dancing: 2 Counts at a Time
We've taken a 6-count and 8-count series, but what is 2-count dancing? Instead of thinking about the dance as always having a certain number of counts or rhythms, we can chunk our dance in 2 counts to help us shorten, extend, or vary moves. In this class, we'll learn how we can build and interchange our steps like Lego pieces, which is the foundation for learning variations, expanding your moves vocabulary, and upping your musicality to better fit the music structure. And likewise, we'll use this idea to help with smoothing out our transitions between moves we already know.
PRE-REQUISITES: 4 months of Beginner FUNdamentals or comfort with 6-count Lindy Hop, 8-count Lindy Hop, and Charleston. No partner necessary.
w/ Sam Nguyen, James Yeh
Adventure (7:05-8:05 pm)
Intro to Collegiate Shag
Collegiate Shag is a partnered swing dance that originated in the 1920s and 30s and is typically done to faster tempo music (180-250+ beats per minute). It is an energetic dance with relatively upright posture and features hops, kicks, and creative footwork rhythms.
Join Karen and Chris to get started with Collegiate Shag! In this series, we will teach you the basic steps plus some other fun moves, rhythms, and shapes.
PRE-REQUISITES: None. No partner necessary; just bring comfy shoes and your enthusiasm!
w/ Karen Huddleston, Chris Ortega
Deep Dive (7:05-8:05 pm)
Flowmentum and Redirection (me & you)
Great. You know moves, but when you feel yourself dancing or see a recording of yourself dancing, it just seems… rigid. You do some 8-count, then you find trouble stringing in the next one, so you just do a basic. Your default thing to prepare for the next move is to reset as if you were starting a completely new dance. In this series, we aim to get you past that rigidity. Through concepts of flow, momentum, and redirection, you will find your next move being dictated by how your partner and you respond to the previous ones.
PRE-REQUISITES: 6 months of Intermediate Level classes (Core Concepts, Journey, Level 2, or equivalent).
w/ Liwen Chen, Robert Gatdula
Volunteering
Want to get these lessons for free? We have volunteering opportunities to get you into the dance and lesson(s) for free. Subscribe to volunteer email list via this form.
Put it on your calendar!
February 23-25: Swingin’ at the Savoy in Oakland, CA
A Festival to Celebrate Lindy Hop and Jazz. Registration is still open. Grab your tickets.
February 28: Dance Party to live music
Community Fund Donation
This is a way for dancers who have a little extra money to help those who cannot afford to take classes or come to dances. Anybody can donate, and anyone can ask to be subsidized. Find out details and donate on our website.
Keep it Swingin'!
See you out on the dance floor!
