Swing Dancing, HARVARD Richards Hall

[Ken T Takusagawa]

We are at Harvard this week.  Nina will teach an 
introductory swing/lindy lesson at 8pm.

* MIT Lindy Hop Society and Harvard Swing Kids Wednesday night dance
* Richards Hall (Harvard University)
* Wednesday, December 5, Lesson 8-9, Dancing 9-11:30 p.m.
* Free, beginners welcome, no partner necessary
* http://mit.edu/swing/harvard/swingkids_flyer_12_2007.pdf

Adam from the Harvard Swing Kids writes:

  Hey Swing Dancers!

  Just a reminder that the Harvard Swing Kids, Harvard's swing/lindy
  society, is hosting its December/Holiday dance this Wednesday,
  December 5. Due to a last-minute rescheduling by Harvard facilities,
  we are unable to hold the dance this week in our usual location
  (Holden Chapel) - rather, the dance will be held in Richards Hall.
  Directions to Richards are included in the attached flyer.

  As last month, the dance is co-hosted by the MIT Lindy Hop Society
  and the Dudley Arts Council, and there will be a *FREE* (yes, free)
  introductory swing/lindy lesson by the famous Nina Current from 8-9
  pm.  There will be open dancing for all levels afterwards until
  11:30 pm.  The dance is an inter-university event (Harvard, MIT,
  Tufts, and more) so everyone is welcome - feel free to invite
  friends.

  Location: Richards Hall on Harvard's Cambridge campus (behind
  Maxwell Dworkin Hall at 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA, and adjacent
  to Harvard Law School and Harkness Commons).  See the flyer at
  http://mit.edu/swing/harvard/swingkids_flyer_12_2007.pdf for
  detailed directions.

  Hope to see you there!

  Adam (acsiegel at gmail.com) and Di Yin (diyinlu at gmail.com)
  Organizers, Harvard Swing Kids


The MIT Lindy Hop Society has many exciting events coming up:

Saturday, December 8: BLUES WORKSHOP WITH MIHAI. 
12-6pm, MIT Student Center 4th floor.  $55.
  http://mit.edu/swing/mihai/

The workshop will be followed by a house party hosted by 
John Brooks, at 35 Warren Ave Waltham, MA, 9pm-2:30am.
  http://mit.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10017127039

Next week, December 12 and 19 (and maybe beyond), Nina and 
Dan will teach an intermediate-level Lindy Hop class.  If 
you already know the Lindy Hop swing-out and want to learn 
more, they will teach you more!  (Please do not attend this 
class if you do not already know the Lindy Hop basic swing 
out.)

During MIT's Independent Activities Period, (January 9, 16, 
23, 30), Andrea and Lauren will teach RAVISHING RED HOT 
LINDY: "Being a beginner dancer doesn't have to keep you in 
your dorm room. We'll put an end to those cold, lonely 
winter nights, in January. Andrea and Lauren will be your 4 
weeks of redheaded fun, on the dancefloor. This class will 
introduce you to Lindy Hop and Charleston. Both of these 
energetic partnered dances were created in the 1940s to Big 
Band and Jazz music."

Weeks 1 & 2 will teach Lindy Hop basics.
Week 3 will teach Charleston basics.
Week 4 will meld Lindy and Charleston and give you some extra snazzy moves.
**Each class will build on the previous week.
**Starting from Week 1 is recommended, but not required.

--ken

P.S.: 

Saturday, December 8: Dudley House Winter Waltz, Harvard. 
"Once a year Dudley transforms itself into a winter 
wonderland and bathes itself in barely recognizable graduate 
students spinning and swirling away to the live ecstasy of 
the Dudley House Orchestra."
  http://mit.edu/swing/messages/21