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Rockabilly Dance Classes in Sydney

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Rockabilly is one of the original street dances, its fast and its fun. Because Rockabilly is a street dance there is flexibility to develop your own style. The lead is strong and the moves are sharp and fast. The girls do a lot of spinning around the guys and there is a kudos for those dancers who tear up the floor to the super fast tracks! Find out about Rockabilly Workshops

Rockabilly music is the earliest form of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It is a fusion of blues, hillbilly boogie, bluegrass music and country music, and its origins lie in the American South. As Peter Guralnick writes, “Its rhythm was nervously uptempo, accented on the offbeat, and propelled by a distinctively slapping bass….The sound was further bolstered by generous use of echo, a homemade technique refined independently by Sam Phillips and Leonard Chess in Chicago.”

While recording artists such as Bill Haley were playing music that fused rhythm and blues, western swing and country music in the early 1950s, and Tennessee Ernie Ford performed in a somewhat similar style on songs such as “Smokey Mountain Boogie,” they were not playing rockabilly.

As Nick Tosches writes, “By the early 1950s, it was not uncommon to encounter simultaneous country and rhythm-and-blues recordings of the same song.”

And he points out that the Delmore Brothers and Hank Williams were performing, in the late 1940s, music that could be called rock and roll. But rockabilly was a stripped-down version of its various sources, and thus a specific stylistic moment in the evolution of music that before had existed in many forms.

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LOCATION/TEACHERS

DETAILS

Swingtime HQ
Level 2, 108 Parramatta Road, Camperdown.
Teachers - Jim and Margie

Rockabilly Workshop Dates

Date	Time	Level
Sunday 13th July	3pm to 6pm	Beginners
Sunday 27th July	1pm to 2:30pm	Beginner Refresher
Sunday 27th July	3pm to 5pm	Intermediate
Sunday 17th August	3pm to 6pm	Beginners
Sunday 31st August	1pm to 2:30pm	Beginner Refresher
Sunday 31st August	3pm to 5pm	Intermediate
Sunday 14th Sept.	3pm to 6pm	Beginners
Sunday 28th Sept	1pm to 2:30pm	Beginner Refresher
Sunday 28th Sept	3pm to 5pm	Intermediate
Sunday 28th Sept	3pm to 6pm	Beginners
Sunday 26th October	1pm to 2:30pm	Beginner Refresher
Sunday 26th October	3pm to 5pm	Intermediate
Sunday 16th Nov.	3pm to 6pm	Beginners
Sunday 30th Nov.	1pm to 2:30pm	Beginner Refresher
Sunday 30th Nov.	3pm to 5pm	Intermediate

Beginners Rockabilly Dance Workshops

Workshops from 3:00pm to 6:00pm

Come and learn this cool dance style from the 1950’s. We will show you the basics, technique and some cool moves to get you started in this 3 hour workshop.
This workshop is designed for brand new beginners or dancers who would like to refresh the basics.

Beginners Rockabilly Dance Workshop Information

Location: Swingtime Level 2, 108 Parramatta Road, Camperdown. Cost: $30 per person Time: 3:00pm to 6:00pm Register: Margie on 0410 668 995 or email swinginkitten@primusonline.com.au by the Saturday prior to the workshop Deposit: No deposit required - pay on the day Enquiries: Margie 0410 668 995 or swinginkitten@primusonline.com.au

Private Lessons: If you would like to accelerate your dance skills, we are available for private lessons as well. Just give Margie a call on 0410 668 995 to arrange a suitable time.

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Beginners Refresher Rockabilly Dance Workshops
Workshops from 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Beginner Refresher Workshop is now offered just prior to the Intermediate session so you can refresh the basics before moving on to Intermediate. This is ideal for dancers who have completed the 3 hour Beginners Dance Workshop who would like to consolidate what they have learnt.

Beginners Refresher Rockabilly Dance Workshop Information
Location: Swingtime Level 2, 108 Parramatta Road, Camperdown.
Cost: $15 per person
Time: 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Register: Margie on 0410 668 995 or email swinginkitten@primusonline.com.au by the Saturday prior to the workshop
Deposit: No deposit required - pay on the day
Enquiries: Margie 0410 668 995 or swinginkitten@primusonline.com.au

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Intermediate Rockabilly Dance Workshops
Workshops from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

This workshop is a 2 hour session which is designed to improve your dancing technique as well as learning new dance moves. This workshop is for dancers who have at least satisfactorily completed our Beginners or Beginners Refresher Workshops or dancers who would like to improve their style and learn more moves.

Remember, if you are more comfortable dancing with your own partner, you are welcome to come as a couple and stay together or come by yourself and join the rotating circle, where you will get a chance to practice with a number of different partners.

Intermediate Rockabilly Dance Workshop Information
Location: Swingtime Level 2, 108 Parramatta Road, Camperdown.
Cost: $25 per person
Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Register: Margie on 0410 668 995 or email swinginkitten@primusonline.com.au by the Saturday prior to the workshop
Deposit: No deposit required - pay on the day.
Enquiries: Margie 0410 668 995 or swinginkitten@primusonline.com.au

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