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WINTER 2025: Rock My Balboa Classes
Tuesday, 19.00 – 20.00:
BALBOA Beginner+/Intermediate : Ideal for all dancers who just had a semester of Beginner+ classes or who want to catch up with their Bal.
Dates: January 14 – February 18, 2025 (6 weeks)
*UNTERRICHTSSPRACHE: DEUTSCH, ENGLISH ON DEMAND*
Here are some basic notes:
Note: We highly encourage you to find a partner for class.
Admission: Each 6-week-block: € 75,-/person
Location:The Café of DREHM Pharma GmbH, Grünbergstraße 15/3/3, A-1120 Vienna
(U4 Schönbrunn, 5 mins by foot – find it here)
What is required?
You have basics in Balboa, such as basic rhythms (double time/uphold, single time/downhold), comearound, out&in, lollies and want to work on your elementals to improve your dancing..
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You want to “Entschleunigen your life”? Then learn how to dance to Slow Swing music!
If the music is really slow, you should try Laminu – and behold, Sandra & Axel are the very few persons on this planet teaching this dance!
This is an exceptional, elegant dance that provides you with the skills to swing it to slow tempo. Laminu is a sibling of Balboa from the late 1940ies and kind of an orphan dance – only very few people are still dancing Laminu, and Balboa, Baby! is one of the superfew who offer classes.
If the music is slow, but you almost want to do a Lindy to it, then Slow Balboa is your friend! This is a slow version of Balboa – hence the name – and can be danced to not-so-slow, but still mellow Swing music.
And sometimes, you need to take a dive into Blues to round up your skills.
This fall, we are offering a 6-weeks-course of Slow Dancing for Balboa dancers (aka Balboas).
WINTER 2025: Slow Dancing Jumpstart – Preparation Sessions for VBLE 2025
For all of you who want to take Slow Swing classes at VBLE 2025 and need basics in Laminu and Slow Balboa.
Dates: Tuesday, 19.00 – 20.00. | February 25 – March 18, 2025 (4 weeks)
*UNTERRICHTSSPRACHE: DEUTSCH, ENGLISH ON DEMAND*
Some notes:
Note: We highly encourage you to find partner for class #KeepTheBalance
Admission: Each 4-week-block: € 50,-/person
Location:The Café of DREHM Pharma GmbH, Grünbergstraße 15/3/3, A-1120 Vienna
(U4 Schönbrunn, 5 mins by foot – find it here)
What is required?
You have no basics in Laminu/Slow Swing Dancing and want to learn basics to attend Intermediate classes at Vienna Balboa & Laminu Experience 2025.
So what does Laminu look like? Here’s the VBLE 2022 Teacher’s demo from Sandra and Axel:
THEY ARE BACK! <3 👏🏼 <3
Beginning in 1998, Abigail Browning fell in love with the grace and athleticism of swing dancing, and has pursued the art and history of Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Charleston ever since. She fosters creativity and musicality for follows and leads through technique, and emphasizes body control through isolation, repetition, and balance while having fun and understanding the historical background of the dance. When not dancing or DJing, Abigail is pursuing her PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Studies at NC State University.
Adam Speen strives to provide a unique perspective combining classic swing dance technique with a modern ideology. Partnership and playfulness are the focus for Adam on the dance floor, creating a ‘yes and’ environment for his partners and himself. He brings the same positive environment to the classroom where conditioning drills, visual media, and demonstrations by students are commonplace. Adam loves having the opportunity to travel and teach so many amazing students, but you will find him his happiest on the social dance floor. When not dancing, Adam works as a Toxicologist at the US EPA.
Returning to VBLE!
Rudolf and Tiphaine Wolfsgruber-Paillard have joined forces to spread their love for Balboa in 2012. Rudi is known in the swing world for his creative enthusiasm, playful improvisation, and solid technique, and Tiph for her elegant flow, smooth connection, and sound quality of movement.
Social dancing has always been a main focus of theirs and they are at their happiest shuffling around on various dance floors around the world.
Together, they strive to push their limits, perpetually improve, share their passion, and hopefully inspire and infect their students with the Bal bug.
What’s VBLE without Dan Guest? Dan is a fixed star in our VBLE universe.
In Balboa, Dan Guest was instrumental in the revival of the dance, having learned from many of the original “old timer” Balboa dancers.
In Laminu, Dan has been one of the main drivers to keep this dance alive and to investigate the source and history.
Dan’s teaching focuses on the techniques and body mechanics that make dancing feel natural and effortless at all tempos. Being a perfectionist, he emphasises lead and follow technique together with developing good basics. He has a relaxed and light-hearted teaching style with a knack for simplifying and explaining complex ideas. His teaching is based on recognised learning methodologies for the acquisition of motor skills. He explains how to put energy and life into all aspects of the dance and how to vary the dynamics to really make it swing!
Jessica Sötterman (Lennartsson) is a multi-talented dancer specialising in swing-related dance styles. Like most other successful dancers from Sweden she started at very young age. Her career is and has been most comprehensive and includes several major titles. She is the only dancer in Sweden to receive Svenska Sportspegelpriset (Swedish Sport News Award) in recognition for her extra ordinary level of dancing and international success. Jessica is internationally well-known and is frequently seen around the world teaching and performing. She was also a member of the Harlem Hot Shots and has been touring in Sweden and internationally with them.
Axel Schwarz and Sandra Hartbach are the founders and organizers of the Vienna Balboa & Laminu Experience – and basically the heart and soul of Vienna’s Balboa Scene. At VBLE, they will teach Laminu and the Balboa Rueda at VBLE.
Since 1998, Axel and Sandra have been dancing together, discovering, teaching and choreographing all forms of social dances.
Their deep passion for swing and jazz music ever growing, they finally started swing dancing in 2006, first focusing on Lindy Hop and Balboa.
Over the last years, they became even more curious and discovered other dances of this era, including rare dances like Laminu, Peabody, and others.
In 2009, they again started teaching Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston, Laminu – and also Ballroom classes, bringing together the experience and technique of their dancing and the joy and enthusiasm of swing dancing.
Their heart is burning for Balboa and Laminu – and for musicality. When teaching, they want to pass on their experience and love for dancing and music, trying to arouse this passion in their students who eventually will bring this to the social dancefloor.
In addition to teaching and organizing events, they are DJing with original 78rpm/Shellac records and LOVE to DJ for Swing Dancers!
Grillparzerstraße 6, 1010 Wien
Tel.: 01 9576793
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Öffnungszeiten
Dienstag bis Sonntag
09:30 bis 23:00 Uhr
Montag Ruhetag
Warme Küche
10:00 – 15:00
17:30 – 21:00
15 – 16 February 2014, Vienna/Austria
Teachers: Ari Levitt and Jodi Fleischmann (US)
Live/Parties: impromptu Live Music with Johanna Zoller and Fabrice Desire (UrCoolele Trio) and Marc D’Olimpio!
In February 2014, we had fun with Ari & Jodi from Seattle!
A week-end of Blues workshops and lovely parties.
Photos of Snowflake Blues Vienna 2014
28 – 29 September 2013, Vienna/Austria
Teachers: Doriana Galliano (FR) and Frank Lyaruu (NL)
Live/Parties: impromptu Live Music with Johanna Zolller and Fabrice Desire (UrCoolele Trio) and Marc D’Olimpio!
This was our first Blues workshop in Vienna!
Blues music is a style of music that a lot of people love and appreciate, but yet have troubles to dance to this very slow beat and relaxed rhythm.
On the week-end of 28/29 September, 2013, Doriana Galliano (FR) and Frank Lyaruu (NL) shared their passion and understanding of Blues with us.
Photos of Fall In Blues 2013:
