Workshops! Dance camps! Exchanges! Competitions! Travelling for dance can be a great way to meet new people, accelerate your learning, and improve your dancing. It can also be expensive. Registration fees, transportation, accommodations, and food can add up fast. Here are some useful tips to help you get out of town without breaking the bank. …
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Happy Pride! In celebration of inclusivity and openness within the swing dance community, here are some of my thoughts on gender roles within swing dancing. The swing dance community is very supportive of the idea that the dance roles of following and leading are not inherently tied to female and male gender roles. But even …
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It’s with great sadness that I make this important announcement. Bees’ Knees Dance is closing at 750 Yonge St., and re-locating under new management. We have loved The Hive at 750 Yonge St. but the space is too expensive for us and we will be closing this location at the end of June. Our time here has been a success in most ways, but not financially, so the time has come to move on.
Article featuring Bees’ Knees Dance in the Toronto Star.
We’re giving Tap a whirl at the Hive this month! Come give it a try!
Drea and Chris hosted Rogers High School Sports Zone for a little dancing this fall.
If you know me, you’ll know that I don’t like competition. More specifically, I don’t like what competition can do to Lindy Hop. To me, Lindy Hop is art, not sport. It’s a form of personal creative and artistic expression; a source of joy, release and pleasure for the participants…
Mandi, Phil, Jasper and some other Toronto dancers attended the International Lindy Hop Championships last weekend. Lindy Hop is certainly more of an art than it is a sport, but sometimes these competitions produce an opportunity to showcase something truly fabulous.
“As a dance student, how should I deal with different instructors teaching conflicting swing dance styles/techniques?” This is a great question and something that everyone is faced with eventually after they move on from learning from a single instructor.
I used to teach very differently than I do now. After working with Frankie and observing Beginner classes all over the world as well as the result of my own lessons, I’ve changed the way that I do things a lot.
