Name: York Lindy Weekender
Start: 2025-04-12T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-13T18:00:00+01:00
Location: English Martyrs RC Church

We are thrilled to announce our York Lindy Weekender with the amazing Katie Cobalt and Mike Sonder!
We will have a day of incredible teaching and dancing, as well as a day of flying high with aerials!
Schedule:
Saturday Workshop
- Workshop 1 from 11am-1pm
- Lunch 1pm-2pm
- Workshop 2 from 2pm - 4pm
- Cultural talk 4pm-5pm
The Saturday workshops will be perfect for anyone who wants to take their Lindy up to the next level, with a great opportunity to learn from this incredible teaching duo who love to share their passion for the history of jazz!
It is assumed that all attendees are comfortable social dancing 6 count, 8 count and Charleston ideas (not suitable for newer dancers). You are comfortable varying up your dancing, and enjoy broadening your vocabulary. You want to take on some new challenges, work on your technique and expand your individual expression in your dancing.
Saturday All-Levels Social Dance
- Social open to all levels, 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Join us in the evening for a social dance, open to dancers of all levels. You can buy a social pass if you are only planning to attend the social dance.
Sunday Aerials
- Aerials Workshop 1 from 1:30pm - 3:30pm
- Break: 3:30pm - 4:15pm
- Aerials Workshop 2 from 4:15pm - 6:15pm
The Sunday workshop will include 4 hours of classic Lindy Hop aerials. These will be where a base (lead) offers support to a flyer (follow), whose feet will leave the floor. You will need to sign up with a partner(s) as we will not be rotating in class, and won’t be matchmaking on the day. If you would like to attend aerials and do not have a partner please email [email protected] and we will try our best to pair up those interested.
The first half will work on some introductory aerials where the flyer will not go upside down, and is a good baseline to work on your fundamentals. The second half will demonstrate some more advanced aerials where flyers will go upside down. The workshop is suitable for beginners to aerials. There is no pressure to go past your point of comfort, as we recognise that everyone is at a different stage of their aerial journey.