George Mason University Swing Dance Club 

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Feb 8th

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George Mason Invasion at the Mobtown Ballroom →

We’re bringing 18 tonight. Get ready, all!

Dec 9th

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As much as Maryam hates being on camera, here’s some info about our club that was put together by Connect2Mason! 

Dec 9th

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Nov 29th

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11/28/2011 Email - 3 events for the end of the...

Whoa everyone, we’ve got a LOT coming up to round out this semester. Next week we will have events 3 nights in a row! PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS EMAIL. THIS THURSDAY: This Thursday night will be our last regular night of lessons this semester! Intermediate at 7, beginner at 8, dancing till 11 as usual in the JC Dance Studio.  A WIDER CIRCLE: Facebook event. A Wider Circle is a non-profit...

Nov 28th

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11/17/2011 Email - tonight!

Bryan and I are out at rehearsal this week, so there’s some awesome stuff lined up for this evening in our stead. Special guest instructor, Max Desens, finalist in the ILHC Open Jack & Jill and a dance instructor at The Naval Academy, is coming up for the evening to work on counterbalance, connection, and how to create feel-good swingouts. Intermediates 7pm, Beginners 8pm, Open Dancing...

Nov 17th

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11/09/2011 Email - tomorrow, baltimore, workshops,...

TOMORROW’S CONTENT - 7-8pm Intermediate: We’ll be working on musicality, but this time, hitting BREAKS! - 8-9pm Beginners: We’ll be giving you a bunch of sweet turn options! - 9-11pm Social Dancing BALTIMORE Thank you to everyone that came up to Baltimore this past Friday. I think it’s clear to all involved that it was definitely an experience to remember! Never have I...

Nov 9th

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11/02/2011 Email - tomorrow's classes and lindy...

For tomorrow night, the intermediates will be working on musicality from 7-8, and for the beginner class from 8-9 we’re going to work on FULL OUT SWING OUTS!! Then dancing until 11. All in the JC Dance Studio. And we’ll see many of you at STRUT in Baltimore on Friday. It’ll be a night to remember, for sure.  If you are interested in attending Lindy Focus with some of us from...

Nov 2nd

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10/26/2011 Email - LINDY HAUNT

Tomorrow night… THE LINDY HAUNT. COSTUMES ARE ENCOURAGED! There will be food, candy, and fun times. Maybe even a zombie rendition of the shim sham.  DANCING ON SATURDAY: We have been invited to go see the GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA right down the street at the Stacey C. Sherwood Community Center. Tickets are $20 ahead of time when purchased here (click on “view activities” and...

Oct 26th

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Oct 20th

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10/19/2011 Email - Content for tomorrow!

CONTENT FOR TOMORROW NIGHT: Back to our normal class schedule. From 7-8, intermediates will be working on swingouts. For the 8-9 beginner lesson, we’ll be building off of the he-goes, she-goes exercise and giving you the basics of a send out and swing out. :D Social dancing from 9-11.  NEXT WEEK - HALLOWEEN: Next week during our normal meeting time, we’ll be having the LINDY HAUNT...

Oct 19th

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10/12/2011 Email - all kinds of great things!

WE HAVE A WEBSITE: First off, after months and months of being in internet-limbo, our website is back up and fully functional! Be sure to take a look! It’s powered by Tumblr, so if any of you are tumblr users, go ahead and follow it so that you see updates. We’ll be posting big highlights and events on the website, as well as videos and photos. We will still be using facebook to...

Oct 12th

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Oct 8th

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One of the producers for Mason Cable Network just happens to be our Social Chair! Last semester, she filmed an episode a show called Dancing with the Patriots. There was an episode focused on Swing Club, and here it is. Thanks Ashlee! Source: http://www.vimeo.com/elizalee

Oct 8th

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Oct 8th

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Please use the navigation to the right to find information about how our club works and what we’ve got going on. The main column of the site (below) will frequently be updated with photos, videos, news and more as the semester progresses! PHOTOS  |  VIDEOS  |  MUSIC  |  EVENTS  |  NEWS  |  EMAIL ARCHIVE 

Oct 7th

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10/6/2011 Email - class content for this week!

Sorry for the late email, I’ll keep it short and sweet! For tomorrow’s intermediate workshop at 7, we’ll add more jazz steps to our repertoire from last week and build up some routines. At our beginner class at 8, we’ll keep building on what we’ve learned, and make you into masters of the triple step! Stick around for social dancing at 9! See you all in the JC Dance...

Oct 6th

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9/28/2011 Email - tomorrow's content and some team...

AT TOMORROW NIGHT’S MEETING: 7-8pm Intermediate Workshop: We’ll be digging into some solo jazz movement!  It’s going to be awesome, you’ll definitely want to be there.  8-9pm Beginner Series: We’ll be going over the basic social moves that we’ve been working on and give you a few more. Then we’ll be talking about DANCE ETIQUETTE! What are some helpful...

Sep 28th

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9/14/2011 Email - lessons switcheroo

A note about meeting times: It was great meeting so many of you at the interest meeting and at the first night of lessons, and it was especially nice already seeing some of you out social dancing at Glen Echo on Saturday! Just to keep you on your toes, we’re swapping our lesson schedule around.The new schedule should make it easier for beginners to make it to social dancing. The intermediate...

Sep 14th

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8/23/2011 Email - SWING DANCE CLUB THIS FALL!

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to what I hope will be another awesome year of swing club!  - INTEREST MEETING! : Thursday, September 1, 7:30pm Thursday September 1, 7:30. We will mingle and demo and get started back up again. Let your friends know! We’d love to help more people fall in love with this dance!! - MEETINGS THIS SEMESTER Our meetings will once again be on Thursday nights....

Aug 23rd