r/SwingDancing • u/No-Custard-1468 • 3d ago

Discussion Dance resolutions

Do you make dance resolutions for the new year? Have you kept the ones from 2024? What are you looking to work on or try out in 2025?

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u/Sneaky_Ben 3d ago

Europe, here I come. Manifesting that I will go dancing in Amsterdam, Utrecht, London, Cambridge, and two other cities I haven't yet picked out for autumn (open to suggestions).

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u/Alex66_Jack 3d ago

European buddy here. Utrecht was my first scene <3 but I live in UK right now. If you check UK, Oxford and Edinburgh have also great Exchanges! I would absolutely recommend Cambridge, while London have everything but not weekender as far as I'm aware :)

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u/Sneaky_Ben 3d ago

Awesome. I was thinking of just hanging out for a couple of weeks in early May in London and Cambridge to do the weekly dances and get a feel for the local scenes—which weekly dances would you recommend in London? I'm seeing a recurring Monday/Tuesday but it's a big city so I'd like the opinion of a local. I saw this dance in Cambridge which looks legit.

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u/DerangedPoetess 3d ago

not the person you're replying to but the london listings page is here, there's stuff on most nights: https://www.swingoutlondon.co.uk/

my fave social nights are Wednesday in New Cross and anything at the Bishopsgate Institute, and if you're advanced people say very good things about Thursday night with Swingdance UK, but I never made it there. 

if you do blues then the monthly blues at the ritzy is absolutely gorgeous. 

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u/Sneaky_Ben 3d ago

perfect, I will plan to join you for at least one of those in May!