LINDY HOP / OPEN group

MONDAYS, 18:30 – 19:45

* REGISTRATIONS (only when Krakow enters the yellow or red covid zone).
– malzurawska@gmail.com
Registration is not valid when Krakow is in the green zone! 🙂

ABOUT THE CLASSES:
Start the week with joyful dances to the rhythm of swing music straight from 1930s Harlem!
Lindy hop is a dance in pairs that was born out of the human need of the heart – the need to express itself to the rousing music of the great big jazz bands of the Golden Age of Swing.
It was danced literally everywhere – during the day in the streets and courtyards as “street dance”, in the evenings it took on a more festive character and moved to the salons of Harlem in New York. He carried away crowds, helping to forget about the difficult one interwar reality.
Hop brings with it a huge amount of positive energy and creates unlimited possibilities for improvising, interpreting music and expressing yourself in it. But it is loved by crowds of people around the world also today: since the 1980s it has been experiencing a renaissance and reigns on the dance floors around the world creating a crazy Lindyhoppers communities 🙂

Here’s how it works in practice 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcefGtjXCiU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I8UHpqxLw8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2h5A1btINqSv0qWCfxXpU KPAoX0lqDQNNL0f9U1Al2Zpq9-ZbW5hv7hEU –

Welcome to the magical world of swing 🙂

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LEADERS:
Gosia Żurawska
Dancer, photographer, craftswoman. Swing dance instructor. From the moment she encountered Lindy Hop on her way, this dance became one of the determinants of her directions for Gosia. She visited many swing communities in Europe, discovering the richness of cultures, learning, sharing experience and getting involved in organizing festivals. For many years she has been associated with the Herräng Dance Camp in Sweden, where, apart from lounging on the green grass and gazing at the Scandinavian sky;), she improves her dancing and instructor skills and draws inspiration from teachers and dancers from all over the world. However, he always returns with great joy to the Krakow swing family, where he currently conducts Lindy Hop, Solo Jazz and switching classes (smooth change of roles in dance). He also sows the seeds of the swing in his home city of Lublin. Gosia sees the greatest beauty of swing dances in the freedom they remind of and the loud laughter they bring out from the dancing people. That is why you can often meet her with a camera in her hand, as a “catcher” of dance floor emotions. Always looking for a balance between joyful expression to which the swing invites, mindfulness and meditation in dance, Gosia also practices GaGa and Choreotherapy.

Karina Shorets
Since the end of 2013, Karina has been intensively involved in the world of swing, first as a student and dancer, now as a passionate instructor. For several years, he has been conducting regular classes in Krakow, and has been teaching in Katowice for a year. He belongs to the first jazz choreographic group Jazzy Pearls in Poland. He systematically teaches throughout Poland, among others Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk and ect .. He regularly goes to foreign festivals, where he improves his dance technique, learns from the world’s best instructors, conducts workshops and takes part in competitions. In 2018 she joined the first ever modern European swing choreographic group HDC Daily Meeting Chorus Line. Since the beginning of 2020, he has been implementing and developing his original project Kick “Swing. Designs Kick dance shoes” Swing Dance Shoes. From December 2018, he plays at the Teatr im. Adam Mickiewicz in Częstochowa in the play “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

CLASS DATES: Mondays at 18.30-19.45