Weekly Saturday Night Dance

Swing and Sway is a unique dance school, which fosters a passion for dancing in all its students, using over 38 years of experience and proven success. We specialize in effective dance teaching of Latin, Ballroom, Salsa, and other dances. We ensure that all our students will progress quickly from their first lesson to the dance floor. And – most importantly – we do all of it with a lot of fun!

We currently teach Private and Semi-Private lessons. Private group lessons (organized by the students) can be coordinated as well.

Our students create their own learning plan and can choose any dance from the list below:

• Ballroom – Latin: Cha Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba, Jive, Paso-Doble
• Ballroom – Standard: Tango, English Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep
• Latin Club dances: Salsa, Merengue, Bachata
• Argentinean Tango and Milonga
• Other party dances: Hustle and the Slow Rock (2-step)

Our way of teaching is very effective, giving our students the right amount of information in order to hit the dance floor as fast as possible. We also do it with a light approach, with a lot of humor and fun. Since we teach many dances, we teach each "family" of dances in an up-to-date approach, which is a perfect fit for the Canadian dance scenes.

We teach dancing as a language. Our students can dance with anyone who has learned the same style of dancing. The approach is to teach steps and variations, that can be used in a flexible way, and not structured routines. We also teach the roles of the leader and follower in relation to each other. We train our dancers to use musicality and sensuality. Our way of teaching is light and gradual. We start with the basic necessities to start dancing and then progress as much as the student wants to progress.

We teach Standard and Latin Dances following the International-Social style. It means that the basic steps, variations, and technique are done using an International syllabus, but with adaptation to social dancing (i.e. dancing at dance parties/practices, events). We include a moderate amount of information regarding Technique, Musicality, Lead and Follow, Sensuality and other elements.

Our Salsa syllabus contains a mix of modern and old-school variations combined with transferable variations and techniques between Latin-Ballroom and Salsa. We also teach Merengue and Bachata with a lot of variations (moves).

The Argentinean Tango is taught utilizing cross-information from Ballroom dancing. For example, an "Ocho" is explained using the knowledge of a "Swivel" from other dances. The advantage of this system is the speed and ease of learning.

For more information, please visit our Dance Lexicon or Useful Information pages.