3:15pm – 6:00pm
Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.
PREREQUISITE
You already do partner dancing of some kind, but no prior Slow Balboa experience is needed. There is no need to bring your own dance partners.
$15 discount if you have taken a Slow Balboa course series, or 2 or more Slow Balboa workshops, in the same role you will do this workshop in, and are comfortable with the Slow Balboa Basic in that role.
TEACHERS
DETAILS
Learn a great way to dance to Slow Swing music.
Slow Balboa is a smooth graceful Dance, perfect for slow swing tempos. It can be adapted for many styles of slow music. It is a classic Swing Dance enjoying an enthusiastic modern revival.
Part 1: Learn the Slow Balboa basic, walks and pivots.
Part 2: Playing with the Promenade (a follow favourite), plus Cuddle Tandem Swivels
NEED A PARTNER?
A partner is NOT required. It is common for people to attend by themselves. Partner rotation is allowed and encouraged in all lessons. You may register on your own or with a partner. Nevertheless, if you still seek a partner, please post that at the Facebook event.
You can also ask people at Swing Toronto dances and such. You could also click the buttons above for help.
VENUE
Top Floor
Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.
Dovercourt House
805 Dovercourt Road, Toronto, ON M6H 2X4
SCHEDULE
Saturday, April 11, 2026
3:15pm – 6:00pm
PRICE
Prices are per person. HST included.
Regular
($44.25 + $5.75 HST)
Full-time students with ID
($30.97 + $4.03 HST)
You meet the discount prerequisite
CASH ONLY pay at door
Meet discount prereq f/t student
CASH ONLY pay at door
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$40 F/T student for the workshop, lesson and dance party (4-10:30pm))
Special offer: $40 for everything 4pm to 10:30pm if you took Vicky’s Rockabilly Jive workshop before
7:00pm – 11:00pm
Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.
PREREQUISITE
Prior dance experience is not required, but already being able to do some kind of dancing is helpful for this all levels beginner friendly workshop. No need to bring your own dance partners.
TEACHERS
DETAILS
Learn 1920s Two Step and Shimmie, which were super popular in the 1920s, when everyone danced!
Stay for Jazz Age DJ’d Dance that follows the workshop.
1920s Two Step is a smooth, fun, easy-to-learn version of Polka (“Polka without the hop”), which was sometimes mixed with Shimmie Dancing. These dances are vernacular, improvisational, playful, free spirited and open ended.
Two Step was extremely popular from the 1890s through the 1920s. We will teach 1920s style Two Step.
Two Step can also be part of 1920s Jazz Age vernacular Fox Trot, by far the most popular dance of the 1920s and the Jazz Age, done from fast and Jazzy to slow and graceful (it is something quite different from contemporary Ballroom Fox Trot).
Note to Swing Dancers: Two Step is a precursor to swing dancing, and is where the triple step in Lindy Hop and swing dancing comes from. The first known swing dance,Texas Tommy Swing, from which Lindy Hop and other swing dancing developed, is, according to for example dance historian Richard Powers, an Afro-American reworking of Two-step/Polka.
NEED A PARTNER?
A partner is NOT required. It is common for people to attend by themselves. Partner rotation is allowed and encouraged in all lessons. You may register on your own or with a partner. Nevertheless, if you still seek a partner, please post that at the Facebook event.
You can also ask people at Swing Toronto dances and such. You could also click the buttons above for help.
VENUE
Upper Hall
Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.
St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church
175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3
SCHEDULE
Friday, June 5, 2026
7:00pm – 11:00pm
Two Step & Shimmie Workshop
7:00pm – 9:45pm
1920s Jazz Age Dance Party
9:50pm – 11:00pm
PRICE
Prices are per person. HST included.
Regular
($44.25 + $5.75 HST)
Full-time students with ID
($30.97 + $4.03 HST)
Event package pricing TBA
*Swing Toronto partners with Stripe for payment processing.
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$40 F/T student for the workshop, lesson and dance party (4-10:30pm))
Special offer: $40 for everything 4pm to 10:30pm if you took Vicky’s Rockabilly Jive workshop before
2:00pm – 4:45pm
Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.
PREREQUISITE
Prior dance experience is not required, but already being able to do some kind of dancing is helpful for this all levels beginner friendly workshop. No need to bring your own dance partners.
TEACHERS
DETAILS
Learn Peabody (Swing Walk), one of the super popular dances of the Jazz Age and Swing Era, including at the amazing Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City, the epicenter of Lindy Hop and Swing Dancing in the the Swing Era!
Peabody (Swing Walk) is a very engaging and distinctive traveling partner dance, usually done to fast music, but adaptable to a wide range of tempos. The basic is just walking (it is a form of “One Step,” with roots going back at least as far as the 1910s), but it can also include syncopations, and can, if you like, be danced slow-slow quick-quick.
Note to Lindy Hoppers and Swing dancers: “All of the Lindy Hoppers” at the Savoy in the 1930s and Swing Era did Peabody, including Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, widely considered the greatest and most influential Lindy Hop performance group of all time. As well as dancing Peabody socially, Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers included Peabody in their dance shows, before the highlight of their shows which was Lindy Hop with air steps.
Simon & Cheryl’s main teachers for Peabody are the very wonderful Chad Fasca and Midori Asakura. You can see them doing Peabody & Charleston in the above video (the traveling dancing is Peabody). In the other video you can see Frankie Manning & Norma Miller, of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, showing the Peabody (Swing Walk) they danced at the Savoy in the Swing Era.
NEED A PARTNER?
A partner is NOT required. It is common for people to attend by themselves. Partner rotation is allowed and encouraged in all lessons. You may register on your own or with a partner. Nevertheless, if you still seek a partner, please post that at the Facebook event.
You can also ask people at Swing Toronto dances and such. You could also click the buttons above for help.
VENUE
Upper Hall
Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.
St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church
175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3
SCHEDULE
Saturday, June 6, 2026
2:00pm – 4:45pm
Peabody Workshop
2:00pm – 4:45pm
PRICE
Prices are per person. HST included.
Regular
($44.25 + $5.75 HST)
Full-time students with ID
($30.97 + $4.03 HST)
Event package pricing TBA
*Swing Toronto partners with Stripe for payment processing.
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$40 F/T student for the workshop, lesson and dance party (4-10:30pm))
Special offer: $40 for everything 4pm to 10:30pm if you took Vicky’s Rockabilly Jive workshop before
2:00am – 8:00pm
Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.
PREREQUISITE
Prior dance experience is helpful for this all levels beginner friendly workshop, but is not required. No need to bring your own dance partners.
TEACHERS
DETAILS
Learn Waltz in the style of the 1920s, including at least one 1920s turning basic (rotating with your partner as you travel around the room)!
Waltz was very popular in the 1920s and Jazz Age.
NEED A PARTNER?
A partner is NOT required. It is common for people to attend by themselves. Partner rotation is allowed and encouraged in all lessons. You may register on your own or with a partner. Nevertheless, if you still seek a partner, please post that at the Facebook event.
You can also ask people at Swing Toronto dances and such. You could also click the buttons above for help.
VENUE
Upper Hall
Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.
St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church
175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3
SCHEDULE
Saturday, June 6, 2026
2:00am – 8:00pm
1920s Waltz Workshop
2:00pm – 4:45pm
Jazz Age Waltz Dance (w snacks)
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Jazz Age Blues Dance (w snacks)
6:30pm – 8:00pm
PRICE
Prices are per person. HST included.
Regular Admission 2pm to 8pm
($53.10 + $6.90 HST)
Full time student with ID 2-8pm
($35.40 + $4.60 HST)
Dance only 5pm – 8pm
Dances only 5-8pm f/t student
Event package pricing TBA
*Swing Toronto partners with Stripe for payment processing.
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$40 F/T student for the workshop, lesson and dance party (4-10:30pm))
Special offer: $40 for everything 4pm to 10:30pm if you took Vicky’s Rockabilly Jive workshop before