Welcome to the Festival!
Spirit of St.Louis Roma
is glad to welcome you in the most explosive Swing event in the eternal city

WHAT Swìngala

M&M Advanced
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M&M Open
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Solo Jazz Open
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Who Swìngala

Discover the teachers and all the artists of Swìngala...

Skye Humphries & Frida Segerdahl

Remy Kouakou Kouame & Alice Mei

Tadas Vasiliauskas & Pamela Gaizutyte

Maria Ferrer & Aurelien Derbellay

Vassia

Alexandros

Filastro Band

Swing Valley Band

Vincenzo Fesi

Marìa Aparisi Galàn

WHERE SWINGALA

SWINGALA GALLERY

Nice shots from the past Swìngala editions

Swìngala

Swìngala is an international Lindy Hop and Jazz Roots Festival organized by Spirit of St.Louis Roma.

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Spirit of St.Louis Roma

Spirit is a Lindy Hop school and dancing community in Rome, check out our website or join us on Facebook!

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HOW Swìngala

Schedule and Parties


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The classes will take place on saturday and sunday.

PARTY

7pm Registration

7:30pm Vassia Cultural talk

8:30pm Theme Class

9:30pm Open Mix & Match Prelims

10:00pm Solo Jazz Prelims

10:30pm Party starts - Live music by Swing valley band

23:30pm Teachers Intro - Open Mix & Match Final - Solo Jazz Final

3am End Party

LESSONS

9:30am Auditions (all levels except intermediate)

From 10.30am until 5.10pm Lindy Hop Classes

From 5:30pm until 7:40pm Jazz Roots Classes

PARTY

9pm Theme class - Vassia & Alex

10pm Advanced Mix & Match Prelims

10:30pm Party starts- Live music by Luca Filastro Septet

11:30pm Teachers Show - Advanced Mix & Match Final

3:30am End Party

LESSONS

From 10am until 5:30pm Lindy Hop Classes

From 6pm until 7pm Jazz Roots Classes

PARTY

9:30pm Theme class - Vassia & Alex

10:30pm Party starts

11:30pm Crazy Contest

2am End Party

Lindy Hop Levels

No Auditions - You have been dancing for at least 1 year and you regularly attend lessons and social dance. You feel confident with the main 6 and 8 count figures (Swing Out, Inside Turn / Outside Turn, Circle, Tuck Turn, Texas Tommy, Charleston basic, Tandem, Hand to Hand) which you know how to lead / follow.
Compulsory Auditions - You have been regularly dancing for at least 2 years and you regularly attend lessons and social dance. You know the basic figures of Lindy Hop and some variations. You are starting to improvise following the change of music and you can easily handle medium-fast rhythm.
Compulsory Auditions - You have been regularly dancing for more than 3 years and you regularly attend lessons, social dance and international workshops. You can easily handle any rhythm (slow, fast and very fast). You improvise following the change of music without errors.
Compulsory Auditions - You have been regularly dancing for at least 5 years and you regularly attend lessons, social dance and international workshops, during which, after the auditions, you are sent to the highest levels. You can handle any rhythm and you know how to lead / follow and improvise. You can do rhythmical variations without affecting your dance.
Compulsory Auditions - You have been regularly dancing for MORE than 6 years and you attend international workshops on a regular basis (and even participate in competitions). You are a dancer with a wide experience. You like improvising following the change of music and you have developed your personal style working on musicality. You can easily dance to fast tempo and super fast tempo, without disconnecting from your partner.

JAZZ LEVELS

You know the basic jazz steps and shim sham.
You know the basic jazz steps, shim sham and maybe tranky doo and big apple. You can improvise to jazz music.
You know the basic jazz steps (and some variations) and the original routines (shim sham, tranky doo, big apple). You have taken some weekly jazz dance classes (at least for a few months) and you can easily improvise to jazz music.

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CONTACTS

Any Question?

Do not hesitate to contact us:

swingala@gmail.com

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