Welcome to Balboa, Baby!
Our goal is to make you dance.
Fast and slow.
And love every bit of it.
Fruity Hop Special: Shellac DJ Gig on July 3, 2024
On Wednesday, July 3, join us for our Shellac DJ Session at Fruity Hop in Vienna!
Axel and Sandra will spin original Shellac records in the beautiful Volksgarten Pavillon.
The music will have a focus on Lindy Hop tempo, but the occasional fast tune.
Date and Time: Wednesday, 03.07.2023, 20:00 – 23.45
Location: Volksgarten Pavillon, Burgring, 1010 Vienna (find it on OpenStreetMap).
Link to the event page: https://ighop.at/project/fruity-hop/
DANCE CLASSES FALL 2024
Next classes for Beginner+ and Intermediates:
Balboa From Zero To Hero 2 – Beginner Plus
Tuesday, 19.45 – 20.45: Sep 24 – Oct 29, 2024 (6 weeks)
👉👉Register here👈👈
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)
👉👉Register here👈👈
Next classes for Intermediate and Advanced Dancers:
BEYOND DANCE Sessions – New concept!
Tuesday, 18.30 – 19.30:
Block 1: FEEDBACK & LISTENING: September 24 – October 15, 2024 (4 weeks)
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)
👉👉Register here👈👈
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
Summer break! No Shuffle Café until Mid September 2024.
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
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.
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.