SWING in Slovenia at Kristofz.com
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SWING CLASSESHere you can find out when and where I teach swing dance classes |
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SWING MUSICListen to the music and read about its history. |
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SWING DANCESome video clips of the dance and a brief history. |
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VINTAGE STYLEAbout the style that is popular on swing scene. |
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SWING PARTYAbout the locations of swing dance parties. |
Some useful links:
| Swing and Roll |
| Mine and Igor's swing page. |
| Siswing in Swing Slovenija |
| Sajles Šinkovec's home pages |
| The Swing Brats |
| A dance group from the slovene city Maribor |
| Sweet Swing |
| Ljubljana's swing society |
| Vintage |
| another Ljubljana swing society |
| Swing Kids Slovenija |
| Page - information about when and where swing is happening in Slovenija |
| Summer Jamboree |
| If you are not sure, where to go for on your summer holidays - try this out! |
| Vienna hot swing jam |
| An Austrian swing dance society. |
Swing!
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. There is a long swing music tradition in my coutry, that is why I have been listening to swing all my life. I like the music and dancing 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.
I also teach swing classes and organize 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. The range of different artists and thus music styles is very wide.
If you want to explore this music I reccomend artists like Cab Calloway, Dutch swing college band, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry James, Indigo swing, Lavay Smith, Mora's modern rhytmists, 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
Since I like different music styles I also like dancing various styles of swing dance. Nowadays the most popular style is lindy hop followed by balboa. I personally also like east coast swing, collegiate shag, 20's charleston, snowden etc.
I like the fact that swing is a 'live' dance, a dance that despite its rich history evolves 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 young dancers I try to teach at least the basics of many dances, so that they 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 emarged during the last couple of years, and we teach in several dance schools and swing dance societies. The slovenian scene is quite good as fas as swing dance knowledge is concerned. Many good swing dance parties happen during the week and more and more swing DJ's play swingin' music there. 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.
Some good swing festivals happen every year too, where distinguished foreigh swing teachers teach and dance, that also helps Slovene swing scene to grow in quality. Therefore i hope many new people decide to start dancing swing and thus contribute their part to the swing dance community in Slovenia.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about swing in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I will try to help you if I can. And here are some useful links if you are interested in Ljubljana and Slovenija:
-> About Slovenia - tourist site
-> Popular slovene search engine
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