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Upcoming West Coast Swing Dances
| Sunday | Sept. 5th | John Kirkconnell at UB** |
| Wednesday | Sept. 8th | Urban Beat |
| Friday | Sept. 10th | Dance Addicts |
| Saturday | Sept. 11th | Just wanna Dance! WCS |
| Sunday | Sept. 12th | Urban Beat |
| Wednesday | Sept. 15th | Urban Beat |
| Saturday | Sept. 18th | BCSDC |
| Sunday | Sept. 19th | Urban Beat |
Welcome to VanSwingThing.com. I hope you will find it informative as I've put a lot of work into it with the help of like-minded dancers who care a lot about sharing our dance with you.
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The reason I've built it is I'd like to help build our little dance community into something a lot more visible and vibrant in Vancouver. There are many good dancers in this city but the whole community exists underground. Unless you've been exposed to West Coast Swing through a friend, or by accident you wouldn't even know it exists. I hope to help change that, and to make it easier for people to learn this dance. Dancing has changed my life for the better and I hope it improves yours too.
West Coast Swing is a modern partner dance that, as you might have guessed, evolved on the west coast of North America. It grew out of another dance called Lindy Hop which was danced to the big band sound predominant in the early part of the 20th century. West Coast Swing is one of the most versatile and flexible dances that you could learn as it is done to many forms of music including pop, blues, hip-hop, and jazz to name a few. The dance has a distinctive elastic look that allows both partners to express their creativity and build on it together.
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