Swing Buzz

The ultimate festival for old school Jazz and Lindy Hop

Join for a weekend full of dancing, parties with LIVE music and training with the world's most renowned instructors:

Main teachers:
🇸🇪 Lennart Westerlund & eWa Burak
🇧🇪 Alexandre McCormack & Jill De Muelenaere
🇧🇪 🇬🇷 Sander Costermans & Irene Ragusini

Taster teachers:
🇧🇪 Toffee & Nacho
🇪🇸 Alba & Javi
🇪🇸 Isa & Frank
🇬🇷 Thanos
🇧🇬 Kalina & Miro

Band:
🇧🇬 Old Sea Company Swing Band

DJs:
🇧🇬 DJ Dimas
🇬🇷 DJ Thanos
🇵🇱 DJ Paweł

Join the festival for:

Dance classes with top international teachers
History talks with the legendary Lennart Westerlund
Late night parties with LIVE music and experienced DJs

Levels you can choose from:

Intermediate - you have been dancing Lindy Hop for at least 1 year
Advanced - you have significant experience in Lindy Hop and you can't wait to improve
Pro - fixed partner track. You are a performer, teacher, competitor and are serious about your dancing. The material in this level will cover faster tempos, air steps and other more advanced aspects of the dance.

Full Pass

6 hours of classes
3 hours of taster classes
3 parties with LIVE music and DJs
2 history talks with Lennart

Party Pass

+Taster Classes

3 hours of taster classes
3 parties with LIVE music and DJs
2 history talks with Lennart

Party Pass

3 parties with LIVE music and DJs
2 history talks with Lennart

Lennart Westerlund

Lennart started out dancing a Swedish form of American Jitterbug in the very early 1980s. In 1983 he came across the Lindy Hop through books and old film clips, and in May the following year he travelled to New York on the look-out for the roots of the dance form. He soon met, studied and started to spend time with old-timers including Al Minns, Frankie Manning and Norma Miller. In 1985, he co-formed the semi-professional and later on highly recognized Swedish dance company The Rhythm Hot Shots (now Hot Shots), and started to seriously study also tap and vernacular jazz dancing in general. A few years later, the company was in the forefront of the first steps of the revival of the Lindy Hop, and in 1989 they took over the complete administration of the Herräng Dance Camp, and invited legendary swing dancer Frankie Manning to visit his first major international swing dance camp. When The Rhythm Hot Shots started to receive some serious international recognition during the early 90s, Lennart was one of the key dancers. The company travelled extensively throughout the decade, and was among a handful of other dancers seriously leading the way to put the Lindy Hop back on the map again. At the time, Lennart also established himself as an international instructor, as well as an administrator and background worker, especially at Herräng Dance Camp. In 2004 he opened Chicago swing dance studio in Stockholm, and in 2010, after 25 years, he left the professional performance aspect of the dance, now focusing more on teaching, giving lectures and performing dance demonstrations.

Ewa Burak

Ewa "W" Burak came into lindy hoppin’ in the fall of 1986, after successfully auditioning for semi-professional Swedish dance company The Rhythm Hot Shots (now Harlem Hot Shots). At the time, she did not have any experience with African-American dancing, but her background as a gymnast helped her to very fast become a most skillful acrobatic lindy hop performer. Her repertoire gradually grew during the later part of the 80s and early 90s, also to include lots of vernacular jazz, charleston, tap and other elements of the Harlem jazz dance tradition. In 1989 she teamed up with Lennart Westerlund, and they soon positioned themselves as one of the top performance couples, specializing in fast acrobatic lindy hop. When eWa decided to step back from the professional performance aspect in the late 90s, she continued to teach on a semi-professional level passing on the lindy hop and other traditional jazz dances to a new generation. eWa was during the 90s one of the most recognized and celebrated lindy hoppers out there. She was a key member of The Rhythm Hot Shots, she frequently partnered Frankie Manning, and she was often on the road teaching and performing in the constantly growing lindy community. Her style of lindy hoppin’ and vernacular jazz dancing was and is characterized by a pure and powerful quality based on Harlem traditions and long time experience. Modern influences have never been a part of her dancing, and today she belongs to an exclusive minority of lindy dancers that is clearly rooted in the history of the dance form.

Alexandre McCormack

Alex is Benelux multiple-time vice champion in breaking and has taught various street styles since 2006. In 2013, McCormack discovered old clips such as Hellzapoppin and the Spirit Moves and set himself on the journey to emulate the “oldstyle” in black american Jazz and Lindy Hop. Most of his inspiration comes from studying the Greats or discussing directly with elders. His motto is “Master the foundation to understand the dance and personalise to contribute to it”. He will jam for hours into the early morning to uptempo Bebop Swing, shaky Mambo and slow Blues. Back in Brussels, he trains with his group, the Old Soulz on a regular basis.

Jill De Muelenaere

Jill started dancing when she was a child. She is trained in classical ballet, modern jazz and jazz dance, contemporary dance and yoga. She has been teaching these different disciplines for the past years, now sharing her time between her passion for dancing, her work as a contemporary dance and theater producer, a massage therapist and a yoga instructor.
Specifically inspired by the authentic vernacular dancing showed in old movies and the african roots of the dance, Jill is ceaselessly in search for a sense of freedom within the dance. She finds her happiness on the dancefloor in fast athletic lindy hop, a rythmical mambo, or a slow dragging blues, and have at heart to stay true to the legacy of the era and the originators of the dances as best she can. In class, her goal is to create a joyful yet challenging and encouraging experience for everyone, allowing each dancer to develop their own individuality in their dancing.

Old Sea Company Swing Band

One of the finest swinging jazz acts around!
Old Sea Company is a dynamic group of musicians based in Sofia playing for dancers. They know jazz, they speak jazz and you will never want to leave the dancefloor before their last piece is over.

The ultimate festival for old school Jazz and Lindy Hop

Full Pass

Party Pass

+Taster Classes

Party Pass

Lennart Westerlund

Ewa Burak

Alexandre McCormack

Jill De Muelenaere

Old Sea Company Swing Band

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