About

Welcome to Balboa, Baby!

Balboa Baby at Balboa Pavilion
Our goal is to make you dance.
Fast and slow.
And love every bit of it.
 
 


DANCE CLASSES FALL 2024

Next classes for Beginner+ and Intermediates:
Balboa From Zero To Hero 2 – Beginner Plus
Tuesday, 19.45 – 20.45: Oct 1 – Oct 29, 2024 (5 weeks)
*IMPORTANT NOTE*: Due to a change of our personal work schedule, this class will start only on October 1. In order to catch up with the total hours, the first 2 sessions will be extended by 30 mins to 19.45 – 21.15.

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Next classes for Slow Swing (Laminu, Slow Balboa):
Get your Slow Swing skills including Laminu and Slow Balboa, and some blues
Tuesday, 19.45 – 20.45:
Dates: November 5 – December 10, 2024 (6 weeks)

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Next classes for Intermediate and Advanced Dancers:
BEYOND DANCE Sessions – New concept!

Tuesday, 18.00 – 19.30:
Block 1: FEEDBACK & LISTENING: October 1 – October 15, 2024 (3 weeks)

Tuesday, 18.30 – 19.30:
Block 2: FAST TECHNIQUE: October 22 – November 12, 2024 (4 weeks)

Block 3: FOLLOWER ACADEMY – Chapter 1: Solo Skills: November 19 – December 10, 2024 (4 weeks)

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Location:The Café of DREHM Pharma GmbH, Grünbergstraße 15/3/3, A-1120 Vienna
(U4 Schönbrunn, 5 mins by foot – find it here)


SHUFFLE CAFE – Your weekly dance social

Shuffle Café will be back on September 18, 2024!

EVERY WEDNESDAY

with various DJs
playing their selected choice
of dancy Swing music
digital or 78rpm/Shellac sets

Schedule for FALL 2024:

18.09.: BACK TO SCHOOL with Axel and Sandra playing 78rpm/Shellacs
25.09.: DJ Marcos
02.10.: DJ Alex Richard playing 78rpm/Shellacs VIA VIDEO FROM STRASBOURG!*
09.10.: DJ Foxhole aka Max
16.10.: DJ Ango2Go aka Johannes
23.10.: DJ Alex Richard playing 78rpm/Shellacs VIA VIDEO FROM STRASBOURG!*
30.10.: DJ Bunani
06.11.: DJ Foxhole aka Max
13.11.: DJ Ango2Go aka Johannes
20.11.: DJ Marcos
27.11.: DJ Foxhole aka Max PLUS DJ Stephan Wuthe playing 78rpm/Shellacs VIA VIDEO FROM BERLIN!*
04.12.: DJ Ango2Go aka Johannes
11.12.: DJ Bunani
18.12.: Christmas Special tbd

* We will stream these sessions on Zoom for all our friends who are not in Vienna!


Time for all Shuffle Café dates: 20:00 – 23.00
Location: Café Caspar, Grillparzerstraße 6, 1010 Vienna (find it on OpenStreetMap).
Streaming links see below.

Free admission – please feed the lolly pig!

Prior Covid testing is still a good idea to keep the event safe – if you feel sick, please stay at home!

Streaming Links for 02.10., 23.10. and 27.11.:

Click here to join via Zoom

Click here to join via Twitch


Please support the Shuffle Café – please feed our virtual lolly pig online:
consider a minimum donation of € 5,- for live concerts – to help us pay the musicians

Via Paypal: https://paypal.me/balboababyvienna
or
Via Bank Transfer:
State “Shuffle Café donation/Spende”
Recipient: Verein Balboa, Baby!
IBAN: AT63 1420 0200 1094 1084, BIC: BAWAATWW



*** VIENNA BALBOA & LAMINU EXPERIENCE 2025 ***
SAVE THE DATE: 21.-23.03.2025


Vienna Balboa & Laminu Experience 2025


PRIVATE CLASSES for BALBOA, LAMINU and SLOW BALBOA


In order to offer input for everyone while staying safe, we are offering Classes for all levels and dancers in person or via Zoom. Send us an e-mail!


About: Since 2012, we’ve been organizing a weekly Swing dance event and a yearly bigger event, mainly with the focus on the dances Balboa and Laminu.

Why?

Because both dances need some boosting in Vienna. Balboa is a hot Swing dance from the 1930/1940ies, danced to Swingy Jazz music that can be very hot and fast.

Laminu is an “orphan dance” that is sometimes referred to as slow balboa – with all the elegance and charme of the slow Jazz music of the era.

How?

This is why we are organising social evenings, taster classes, concerts and workshop week-ends – so that you can join the fun.

Simona holding Balboa and Laminu Badges

Our credo

A point that is very dear to us:  We want to keep our activities affordable. As we do this in our free time, our main aim is to make you happy and successful.

This is why most of our activities are donation-based; just for concerts and bigger workshop week-ends, we need to have a minimum donation or a fixed price to finance musicians, teachers etc.

We want the dance to be as free as possible – in every aspect.