Balboa dance classes in October - November

Name: Balboa dance classes in October - November
Start: 2025-10-13T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-13T21:30:00+01:00
Location: St Columba's-by-the-Castle

Schedule

Mon Oct 13 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Columba's-by-the-Castle | Edinburgh, SC

Fancy learning to Balboa, a Swing dance suited particularly for faster, swinging Jazz. Its an elegant and smooth partner dance involving a lot of rotations. Balboa is a partner dance and often danced in close-hold embrace, similar to Ballroom or Tango.
You can join either the Fundamentals classes, for which you don't need any dance experience, or the Explorer classes. You don't need a dance partner to register.
We teach Balboa in blocks of 5 weekly classes, so that we can built progression into our teaching, which we find helpful especially for dancers new to Balboa. You don't have to attend all five classes of a block but we recommend for beginners to not miss too many early classes in a block.
Each class costs £8 (£7 concession), and you can buy tickets in advance for 3, 4 or 5 classes.
19:30-20:15 Fundamentals class (suitable for absolute beginners)
20:15-20:45 Joint practice time / social dancing
20:45-21:30 Explorer class (requires previous Balboa experience)
We sometimes also offer weekend workshop and dance weekends. For more experienced dancers, we've got a workshop on 11th October and the Edinburgh Balboa Weekend will take place on 22nd/23rd November.