Swing Dance Instruction By Mike Quebec

12/05/2024

Jitterbug January, the vintage swing dance event, here in Union City...for the over-priced advanced fee of...$1 dollar.

The Eventbrite link is below!

Swing into 2025! Friday evening swing dance social and open house. Beginner friendly dance lesson included. Happening on January 3, 2025!

09/11/2024

Tonight's (Tuesday's) 7:45 p.m. Lindy Hop curriculum.

08/14/2024

New Vintage "Jitterbug" Swing Dance Series for Beginners, starting on Friday evening, August 23, 2024, 7:45 p.m., at the Mark Green Sports Center, 31224 Union City Blvd, Union City, CA 94587, Tel. (510)-675-5808.

It's fun, it's easy to do, and it's a healthy way to both learn to dance and while participating in a heart healthy social activity.

Friday evening sessions begins on Friday, August 23, 2024 and ends on September 27, 2024.

Information is on the flyer.

To register, go to the City of Union City's registration link at: https://secure.rec1.com/CA/union-city-community-and-recreation-services/catalog

Click on "Dance and Music Classes," then scroll to "Vintage Swing (n' Other Dancin' Things)" Social Dance Series. Click on that, then scroll to 8/23-9/27 and click on that. (You will have to "Create Account.")

For additional questions regarding curriculum, text Mike at (510)-240-2732 or email at [email protected].

Smooth Style Lindy Hop, Balboa, Collegiate S**g, East Coast Swing, and Rockabilly Jiving weekly clas

07/07/2024

SWING DANCING, FUN AND EASY ON FRIDAY NIGHTS:

Spend a Friday evening at The Mark Green Sports Center learning how to dance the work week away with our beginner-friendly East Coast Swing class.

Swing dancing is a fun and healthy activity that gets you moving in a fun, safe, and sociable environment.

East-Coast Swing is the simplified, easy-to-do version of vintage swing dancing that requires no previous experience whatsoever. It's energetic and fun to do, done to fast-paced vintage Big Band, jump blues, and early rock n' roll, and the class structure is designed in such a way as to enable participants to immediately use what they learn, regardless of skill level.

* Partners are highly encouraged.

Michael Quebec has been teaching swing dancing since 1995. He has been featured in The Argus, The Philippine News, channel 26's Pinoy Pa Rin, and opened up for rock n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis at San Rafael's Millenium Party in 2000. Catch his dance videos on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

Session start and end dates:
Friday evenings, July 12 to August 16, 2024.

Location:
The Mark Green Sports Center
The Aerobics Room
31224 Union City Blvd.
Union City, CA 94587
Tel. (510)-675-5808

Fee per person:
$68 Union City resident/$78 non-Union City resident

Online registration link:
https://secure.rec1.com/CA/union-city-community-and-recreation-services/catalog

Smooth Style Lindy Hop, Balboa, Collegiate S**g, East Coast Swing, and Rockabilly Jiving weekly clas

06/06/2024

Our first episode of our 1950s true crime series premieres on Saturday, June 8, 2024, 8:00 p.m. Pacific/11:00 p.m. Eastern/10:00 p.m. Central.

Learn about the manipulative mom who made her teenage son do the unthinkable in October of 1957. (June Cleaver, she wasn't!)

The series itself is for 1950s history fans who are looking for a more complete look at our favorite decade, both the good, and the bad, and everything in-between, warts and all.

Episode one will be up for free viewing on YouTube from this Saturday onward at the following link below:

This is the first episode in our 1950s true crime series.For this first episode, we cover the October 1956 case of 35-year-old Hammond, Indiana housewife Gla...

04/06/2024

S**g…In Tandem: Collegiate S**g and Tandem Charleston Workshop for Beginners and Intermediate Swing Dancers.

Are you relatively “new” to Lindy Hop and would you like to up your game and add to your repertoire for fast tempo dancing?

This workshop will cover the basics of Collegiate S**g as well as working on your Tandem Charleston.

The only prerequisites are a basic knowledge of Charleston and basic Lindy skills, and comprehension of leading and following. (And a willingness to learn and have fun, too!)

This workshop is a fundraiser for our new 501(c)(3) California non-profit organization, Atomic Youth: Youth Culture History, 1946-1979 (Tax I.D. # 93-3779030), an educational, historical, research organization dedicated to preserving and postwar youth culture history. (Participants will receive a tax-deductible receipt.)

* And yes, we know that this workshop’s focus will actually be teaching dances that pre-date that time period, but we are hosting this workshop as a request, as our Lindy friends wanted a fast dancing workshop to address Big Band era music. (Our next workshop will focus specifically on dances after World War Two.)

Due to both the size of the venue and our desire to maintain quality instruction, SPACE IS LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS.

Registration and complete information is at the following Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shagin-tandem-tickets-840921237057?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join the Facebook event page to stay updated at the following link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/363768289823597

For additional questions, contact instructor Michael Quebec at:
(510)-240-2732 (text) or [email protected] (email.)

To see what Atomic Youth is all about, visit our website at:
www.1950shistory.org.

A fun vintage swing dance workshop in Collegiate S**g and shadow/tandem Charleston. This is the first fundraiser for our new non-profit.

04/01/2024

Collegiate S**g and Tandem Charleston Workshop:

Ticket link at Eventbrite is below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shagin-tandem-tickets-840921237057

Save on advanced tickets (and get a tax deduction, too, as we are a 501-C3 non profit.)