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Save the Date! 29.5. – 31.5.2026
eWa Burak und
Lennart Westerlund
Welcome eWa Burak and Lennart Westerlund
Du möchtest wissen wie Lindy Hop wieder populär wurde und deine tänzerischen Fähigkeiten verbessern sowie in einen gemütlichen Groove kommen? Dann sind eWa und Lennart genau deine Trainer. Sie sind maßgeblich an deer Revolution des Lindy Hop in den 80ern beteiligt und begeistern sich heute noch an deen traditionellen Lindy Hop anfängen.
You want to know how Lindy Hop became popular again, improve your dancing skills and get into a comfortable groove? Then eWa and Lennart are exactly your trainers. They were instrumental in the Lindy Hop revolution in the 80s and are still enthusiastic about the traditional Lindy Hop beginnings today.
Manuel Bicain
Welcome Manuel Bicain.
Du möchtest mehr… noch tiefer einsteigen und wissen wie das Tanzen in Argentinien ist, dann solltest du Manuel kennenlernen. Jeden Bewegungsablauf seines Tanzens kann er dir beschreiben und deinen perfekt analysieren.
You want more… and know what dancing in Argentina is like, then you should get to know Manuel. He can describe every movement of his dance and analyze yours perfectly.
Friday
Chorus Line
All Levels
17.00 – 19.00
Defacto Art
Wallstraße
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Welcome Dinner & Dance
19 – 23 Uhr
Defacto Art
Wallstraße
Friday
Teachers Track
17.00 – 19.00
Swing Spirit Studio
Wallstraße 17
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Saturday
Lindy Hop
Level 1
10.00 – 12.00
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Lunch Break
12.00 –13.00
Authentic Jazz
13.00 – 14.30
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Beginner Airsteps
14.45 – 16.15
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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City Tour
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Historie Talk
Ort wird noch bekannt gegeben
19 – 20 Uhr
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Main-Party
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Saturday
Lindy Hop
Level 2
10.00 – 12.00
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Lunch Break
12.00 –13.00
Teachers Track
13.00 – 14.30
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Beginner Track
14.45 – 16.15
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Sunday
Lindy Hop
Level 1
10.30 – 12.30
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Lunch / Firewall / boat tour
12.00 – 14.30 Uhr
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Dips and Tricks
ab Intermediate
14.30 – 16.00
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Sunday
Lindy Hop
Level 2
10.30 – 12.30
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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Lunch / Firewall / boat tour
12.00 – 14.30 Uhr
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Teachers Track
14.30 – 16.00
Katherineum zu Lübeck
Königstraße 27-31
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choose your Pass
ALL IN
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4 h of Lindy Hop 1,5 h Solo Jazz 1,5 h Airsteps 1 Dinner & Dance Friday |
11 h classes
350 € |
Full Pass
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4 h of Lindy Hop 1,5 h Solo Jazz 1 Dinner & Dance Friday |
7,5 h classes275 € |
Lindy Hop Pass
| 4 h Lindy Hop 1 Dinner & Dance Friday 1 Talk & Dance Saturday |
4 h classes145 € |
choose your Pass
Beginner Track
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2 h of Lindy Hop 1 Talk & Dance Saturday |
2 h classes50 € |
Teachers Track
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5 h of Teaching classes 1 Dinner & Dance Friday |
5 h classes150 € |
Fun Pass
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2 h Dips and Tricks 1 Dinner & Dance Friday |
3,5 h classes135 € |
Social Activity Pass
| 1 Dinner & Dance Friday 1 Talk & Dance Saturday 1 Stadtführung 1 Bootstour |
85 € |
Sozial Pass
Du hast gerade nicht so viel Geld…
Bist Student oder Schüler?
Melde dich bei mir. Du übernimmst ein paar Aufgaben und dafür kannst du vergünstigt an diesem Festival teilnehmen. Schreibe gern direkt eine Mail an workshop@swingspirit.de
Lindy Hop – Intermediate
Du tanzt schon eine Weile, die Moves wie Swing Out Circle, Charleston Variationen und Tandem sind für dich kein Fremdwort mehr. Deine erste Sucht nach Figuren ist gestillt und du willst mehr. Dann ist dieser Kurs genau das Richtige für dich.
You’ve been dancing for a while, and moves like swing out circle, Charleston variations, and tandem are no longer foreign to you. Your initial craving for new moves has been satisfied, and you want more. Then this course is just right for you.
Lindy Hop – Intermediate Advanced and up
Du fühlst dich wohl mit Lindy Hop und möchtest tiefer einsteigen. Du spielst mittlerweile auf der Tanzfläche und interpretierst die Musik. Technische Details wie Counterbalance und Release sind dir bekannt, dann ist das dein Level.
You feel comfortable with Lindy Hop and want to dive deeper. You are now playing on the dance floor and interpreting the music. You are familiar with technical details such as counterbalance, tension and release, then this is your level.
Beginner Track
Du möchtest neu mit Lindy Hop starten, bist gerade gestartet oder tanzt schon einwenig, fühlst dich aber noch unsicher. Dann ist das hier genau dein Kurs. Unsere schwedischen Lehrer nehmen dir die scheu und lassen dich wie auf einer Wolke tanzen.
Have you just started Lindy Hop or are you already dancing a little but still don’t feel confident? Then this is the course for you. Our Swedish teachers will take away your shyness and make you dance like you’re on cloud nine.
Chorus Line
Was ist eine Chorus Line?
Eine Gruppe aus Tänzern/innen, die bei Shows oder in Musicals auftritt.
Diese Klasse ist für dich, wenn du an deiner Präsenz im Tanz für dich oder auf der Bühne arbeiten möchtest. Außerdem wenn du unterrichtest und für deine Teilnehmer/innen neue Inspirationen benötigst oder du einfach Lust hast, gemeinsam mit uns Solo zu tanzen.
What is a Chorus Line?
A group of dancers who perform in shows or musicals.
This class is for you if you want to work on your presence in dance just for you or on stage. If you teach and need new inspiration for your participants or you simply want to dance solo with us.
Dips and Tricks
Dieser Kurs widmet sich wundervollen Dips und Tricks mit denen ihr auf der Tanzfläche glänzen könnt. Als Endpose, in mitten eines Songs oder bei einer Performance. Dips und Tricks eignen sich immer, um einen besonderen Moment noch besonderer zu gestalten.
This course is dedicated to wonderful dips and tricks with which you can shine on the dance floor. As an end pose, in the middle of a song or during a performance. Dips and tricks are always a great way to make a special moment even more special.
Beginner Airsteps
Ein Einsteiger-Workshop in die Welt der Airsteps, auch Aerials genannt. Hier lernst du einige der einfacheren und anfängerfreundlicheren Airsteps und wie du diese aufregenden Bewegungen in deinen Tanz einbauen kannst, so dass sie nicht nur eine akrobatische Fähigkeit sind, sondern ein Teil deines Swingtanzes.
Niveau: Für Tänzer mit wenig oder keiner Erfahrung in Air Steps oder körperlichem Training. Es ist obligatorisch, sich als Tanzpaar anzumelden, denn wir werden die Partner nicht wechseln.
A beginners workshop into the world of Airsteps, also called Aerials. Here you will learn some of the simpler and more beginner friendly Air Steps, and how to add these exciting movements into your dancing, so it’s not just an acrobatic skill, but a part of your swing dancing.
Level: Aimed at dancers with little or no experience in air steps or physical training. It is mandatory to sign up as a dance couple, because we’ll not change partners.
Teachers Track
Beim Teachers Track wirst du einige Kniffe und Möglichkeiten unserer Lehrer über das unterrichten von Lindy Hop lernen. des Weiteren wird eine Klasse geben die über Lindy Hop hinaus geht. Um die Verantwortung als Lehrer, die wir eingehen wenn wir andere unterrichten, unser Einfluss und was dazu gehört.
In the Teachers Track, you’ll learn some tricks and techniques from our teachers about teaching Lindy Hop. There will also be a class that goes beyond Lindy Hop. It will cover the responsibility we take on as teachers when we teach others, our influence, and what that entails.
Historie Talk
… Thema wird noch bekannt gegeben.
Who are eWa Burak, Lennart Westerlund and Manuel Bicain?
Lennart Westerlund
Lennart started out dancing a Swedish form of American Jitterbug in the very early 1980s. In 1983 he came across the Lindy Hop through books and old film clips, and in May the following year he travelled to New York on the look-out for the roots of the dance form. He soon met, studied and started to spend time with old-timers including Al Minns, Frankie Manning and Norma Miller. In 1985, he co-formed the semi-professional and later on highly recognized Swedish dance company The Rhythm Hot Shots (now Hot Shots), and started to seriously study also tap and vernacular jazz dancing in general. A few years later, the company was in the forefront of the first steps of the revival of the Lindy Hop, and in 1989 they took over the complete administration of the Herräng Dance Camp, and invited legendary swing dancer Frankie Manning to visit his first major international swing dance camp.
When The Rhythm Hot Shots started to receive some serious international recognition during the early 90s, Lennart was one of the key dancers. The company travelled extensively throughout the decade, and was among a handful of other dancers seriously leading the way to put the Lindy Hop back on the map again. At the time, Lennart also established himself as an international instructor, as well as an administrator and background worker, especially at Herräng Dance Camp. In 2004 he opened Chicago swing dance studio in Stockholm, and in 2010, after 25 years, he left the professional performance aspect of the dance, now focusing more on teaching, giving lectures and performing dance demonstrations.
Lennart is today still a most active dancer, instructor, lecturer, judge and administrator but his main focus is to travel around the world passing on a variety of old-school American swing dances such as Lindy Hop, solo jazz, tap et cetera to a younger generation. His repertoire also includes all sorts of lectures around dance history, jazz music and musicality for dancers. After some 40 revival and renaissance years of the Lindy Hop, Lennart is one of very few of the pioneers that are still active in the scene. His background and dedicated interest in the Harlem roots of vernacular jazz dancing has positioned him as an important link between the past and the present.
Ewa „W“ Burak
eWa came into lindy hoppin’ in the fall of 1986, after successfully auditioning for semi-professional Swedish dance company The Rhythm Hot Shots (now Harlem Hot Shots). At the time, she did not have any experience with African-American dancing, but her background as a gymnast helped her to very fast become a most skillful acrobatic lindy hop performer. Her repertoire gradually grew during the later part of the 80s and early 90s, also to include lots of vernacular jazz, charleston, tap and other elements of the Harlem jazz dance tradition. In 1989 she teamed up with Lennart Westerlund, and they soon positioned themselves as one of the top performance couples, specializing in fast acrobatic lindy hop. When eWa decided to step back from the professional performance aspect in the late 90s, she continued to teach on a semi-professional level passing on the lindy hop and other traditional jazz dances to a new generation.
eWa was during the 90s one of the most recognized and celebrated lindy hoppers out there. She was a key member of The Rhythm Hot Shots, she frequently partnered Frankie Manning, and she was often on the road teaching and performing in the constantly growing lindy community. Her style of lindy hoppin’ and vernacular jazz dancing was and is characterized by a pure and powerful quality based on Harlem traditions and long time experience. Modern influences have never been a part of her dancing, and today she belongs to an exclusive minority of lindy dancers that is clearly rooted in the history of the dance form.
eWa is today living in Virginia (USA) and Knivsta (Sweden). Her engagement in the lindy scene of today includes teaching locally as well as on an international level. She still occasionally performs, and she has for many years been one of the teachers and workers around the Herräng Dance Camp. Her background and knowhow of today position her as an important link between the traditions of the dance form and the contemporary communities.
Manuel Bicain
Manuel started to dance Swing in 2003. When he got into the traditional jazz and improvisation world, he found the prefect way to express himself and to share his art with people.
He studied with local teachers and took clases in Europe with the best dancers of the world. He combined his training with martial arts, contact improvisation, theater and circus for several years. He has also studied tap and body percussion, disciplines that he’s still practicing.
He is the organizer of Swingin’ Festival (a Lindy Hop and Tap event), Swing Break Camp, and Campeonato Porteño de Swing (the first swing championships in Southamerica). Currently, he organizes swing parties and he is the producer of the jazz band Brazofuerte All Stars.
Manu participated in several shows as a swing dancer, and won different prizes in competitions. He teaches Lindy Hop, involving not just his heart and dance knowledge in each class, but also modern educational techniques to transmit what each student needs.
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Registration
Du hast dich für einen Pass entschieden? Super dann kannst du dich hier für den Workshop anmelden.
Have you decided on a pass? Great, then you can register for the workshop here.