I went to Swing Maniacs Barcelona last night. It was different….
Turns out, Spanish swing is actually Lindy Hop….
I was busy exploring Barcelona until after the beginner lesson, but I caught the advanced lesson. I think I might want to take a LH class. Maybe.
But since I couldn’t lead Lindy, I just taught single step American Swing. Compared to Lindy Hop, it’s incredibly simple. Rock step is “rock step” in Spanish, too, so that helped.
It was really fun! I also showed the class teacher WCS and Foxtrot. They’re like SDS was, meaning they do the same dance to every song. I didn’t hear a WCS waltz, though….
They also had a really cool line dance from the 20s. Like all dances from the 20s, it was happy, upbeat, and dorky.
Swing Maniacs Barcelona is located at Carrer de l’Església, 4, 08024 Barcelona, Spain, in the GrácIA neighborhood.
(While I discovered this video in 2016 on Barcelona, it wasn’t until after meeting and talking to Kristen in Scotland in 2019 that I found out that it’s a dance called the Shim Sham)
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Travel Tips: Time Management | Twin Cities' Genuine Enthusiastic Man · June 30, 2016 at 15:23
[…] The allure of music brought me to the tail end of a big swing event in a park. The lesson was ending as I arrived and I joined the social dancing. I ended up teaching American East Coast swing to a few ladies, but I changed my dance style to be less confusing to my partners, did some social dancing, and that’s when I finally ‘got’ Lindy Hop, a dance that completely eluded me in my last swing story. […]
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