SWING in Slovenia at Kristofz.com

Also see:

	SWING CLASSES Here you can find out when and where I teach swing dance classes
	SWING MUSIC Listen to the music and read about its history.
	SWING DANCE Some video clips of the dance and a brief history.
	VINTAGE STYLE About the style that is popular on swing scene.
	SWING PARTY About the locations of swing dance parties.
	LJUBLJANA, SI Description of the capitol city of Slovenia.

Some useful links:

Swing and Roll

DJ and Teacher Igor's swing page.

Swing Kids Slovenija

Page - information about when and where swing is happening in Slovenija

Swing Slovenija

Some pictures and videos dedicated to Swing music and dancing.

Sweet Swing

Ljubljana's swing society

Vintage

another Ljubljana swing society

The Swing Brats

A dance group from the slovene city Maribor

Summer Jamboree

If you are not sure, where to go for on your summer holidays - try this out!

The Swing Brats

A dance group from the slovene city Maribor

Vienna hot swing jam

An Austrian swing dance society.

Swing in Ljubljana and in Slovenia

I have been a fan of swing music since I was a child and that is the main reason I started taking swing dance lessons years ago. like this music and dancing to it very much, but what really excites me is the great way of spending free time. In Slovenija the dances take place at evenings in several clubs and pubs, where DJ's play all sorts of swing music (swing, jump blues, boogie, neo swing, jazz swing, ragime...)

I also teach swing classes and organise swing dance performance shows from time to time in order to promote and spread the dance.

Swing music

You all probably know artists like Benny Goodmann, Glenn Miller or Count Basie. Most of the people think of these big bands when thinking about swing music. The range of different artists and thus music styles, however, is very wide.

vintage swing band

If you want to explore this music I reccomend artists like Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry James, Indigo swing, Lavay Smith, Mora's modern rhytmists, Dutch swing college band, Perry Como, Royal crown revue, Bill Elliott, Louis Jordan, Ray Collin's Hot club, Eight to the bar, Big bad voodoo daddy, Collin James, Stray cats, The Brian Setzer orchestra...

You may notice that I stated many artists who perform different music styles from different eras. I like different music styles, from sweet swing to hot swing and boogie, dixieland and rock and roll. You can find more about the music on my swing music site.

Swing dancing

There are different music styles and also music styles. I believe a swing dancer shound know how to dance to different styles of music. Nowadays the most wide spread and popular style is lindy hop followed by balboa. I personally also like collegiate shag, 20's charleston, east coast swing, snowden etc.

vintage swing dancers

The fact is that swing is a 'live' dance. It is a dance with rich history that is evolving even today in various parts of the world. Vintage clothes and style also give it a special energy and ambient.

For me swing dance represents a number of different dance styles, each interesting in it's own way. When teaching I pass the knowledge of all the basic dances, so that young dancers can choose what dance they prefer the most. Read more about swing dancing on my swing dance site.

Swing in Ljubljana, Slovenia

In Ljubljana several good swing dancers have emerged during the last couple of years. Slovene jitterbug scene is relatively good as far as swing dance knowledge is concerned. Many good swing dance events happen during each month and several swing DJ's play swingin' music. Most of the dances take place at bars and clubs, where there is no entrance fee, so that swing dancing is for everyone to enjoy, as it should be.

Therefore i hope many new people decide to start dancing swing and thus contribute their part to the swing dance community in Slovenia.

About Ljubljana

I made a site where you can find basic information about Ljubljana and Slovenija in case you don't know where it is situated or even think it is somewhere near Russia or you have mistaken it for Slovakia. :) Just go to my LJUBLJANA site to check it out!

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about swing in Ljubljana. I will try to help you if I can. And here are some other useful links if you are interested in Ljubljana and Slovenija:

-> Ljubljana on Kristofz.com

-> About Slovenia - tourist site

-> Official Ljubljana site

-> Ljubljana for visitors

-> Hotels in Slovenia

-> Popular slovene search engine