Monday Swing: Tranky Doo
Schedule
Mon Mar 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Tango Berretin | Portland, OR
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Monday Swing is a weekly vintage swing dance practicum and social dance on Monday nights with DJ'ed music in a cozy SE PDX setting.Lesson: $5
Dance: Sliding scale $10-20
All ages! No partner needed!
7:00 - 8:00 Tranky Doo w/Austin
8:00 - 10:00 Social dance & practicum with DJ music
>> TRANKY DOO <<
Along with the Shim-Sham and the Big Apple, the Tranky Doo completes the holy trinity of the swing-era jazz routines. Let's spend the month learning it!
We will use our time together to learn Tranky Doo choreography, practice it into our muscle memory, and make it our own as solo jazz dancers. This will be a sequential class, meaning we'll rely on what you learn each week for subsequent Mondays where we'll add to the learned choreography.
Why the Tranky Doo? Learning this choreography will add another important piece of swing dance history into your repertoire, provide you with common jazz movements to use in your solo and partner dancing, as well as allow you to join this routine when you see it on the social dance floor! Not sure what this routine looks like, check out this fun rendition:
3/3 No lesson! First Monday Jam Session!
3/10 Lesson One: Tranky Doo
3/17 Lesson Two: Even More Tranky Doo
3/24 Lesson Three: More and More Tranky Doo
3/31 Lesson Four: Finishing out the Tranky Doo
>>What's a practicum and social dance?
We DJ music just like a regular social dance. You can come out and just dance like normal, or you can come planning to work on something: Ask for feedback, work on a move, play with variations, master a routine.
>>Have a specific question?
Experienced dancers and local teachers are available at practicum to help out with sticky spots.
>> Balboa? Shag? Solo? Learning swingouts?
Let the DJ know what you're working on if you have specific music requests!
This building is physically accessible to enter. If you have accessibility concerns, please contact PLS.
Hosted by Portland Lindy Society
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Where is it happening?
Tango Berretin, 4422 SE 63rd Ave, Portland, OR 97206-3771, United States,Portland, OregonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
