New to West Coast Swing?

Start with Curious Westie Part 1 and Part 2 to learn core 6 and 8‑count patterns, introduction to connection, quality of movement, and elasticity. Then move to Tier 2: Recreational Westie and its add‑ons (Solo Westie, Skills & Drills) to expand your vocabulary and refine technique. Finally, Tier 3: Dedicated Westie deepens creativity, combining concepts and variations for richer, more textured dancing.

Curious Westie – Part 1 is the perfect start to your West Coast Swing journey. You’ll learn the basic rhythm, connection, and core 6‑count patterns to get you dancing right away. Next, you’ll explore 8‑count patterns, from the basic Whip to classic variations, while adding concepts like setting and moving the post.

Curious Westie – Part 2 is a 12‑week course that helps you feel confident picking up new patterns and variations on the social floor. You’ll expand your dance vocabulary while being introduced to key skills like connection, movement quality, weight transfers, elasticity, and smooth, controlled rotation and momentum.

It’s also perfect for dancers who feel a bit unsure socially or want to build stronger fundamentals before moving on.

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You’ve started social dancing, maybe a bit shy, maybe mostly with familiar partners. Recreational Westie helps you grow your confidence and expand your dance vocabulary. You’ll explore new patterns, variations, styling, and musicality while applying clear connection and techniques to everything you learn.

In Tier 2, you join the core Recreational Westie classes plus rotating add‑ons (Solo Westie and Skills & Drills). These focused sessions sharpen specific elements of your dancing and accelerate your progress.

⚠️ Entry requires completing Curious Westie Part 1 & 2 or a skill assessment.

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You’ve built confidence and can dance most Tier 2 patterns. Now you’re ready for a new challenge. It’s common to feel a bit stuck at this stage.

• Followers may notice certain patterns only work with more experienced leaders and wonder how to make them consistent.
• Leaders may feel limited by familiar patterns and look for more variety, creativity, and flow.
  
  

Dedicated Westie expands on Tier 2 with more complex patterns, variations, and concepts, plus the technique needed to dance them comfortably with any partner. You’ll grow your vocabulary and learn how to combine ideas for a more expressive, textured dance.

⚠️ Entry requires completing Tier 2 or a skill assessment, to ensure that there is a good fit.

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Solo Westie

Solo Westie is a class for both leaders and followers, focused on developing solo movement. You’ll work on balance, timing, syncopations, and micro‑musicality through styling options, all combined into a short choreo that offers challenge at every level.
It’s an excellent way to grow your personal dance skills, even when you don’t have a partner.

Skills & Drills

Skills improve through repetition, and this class is built around drills that isolate key parts of the dance. By training specific concepts, you develop muscle memory and a natural feel for movement.
We’ll explore topics such as spins and turns, timing, agility, playful footwork, and micro‑musicality using different body parts, along with other technique‑building essentials.

Notes:

• Solo Westie and Skills & Drills classes will alternate every 6 weeks.
• If you want to follow both, a subscription of just 1x per week is sufficient.
• If you only want to follow one or the other, we recommend getting a Membership for your core class and a punch card for the preferred add-on class.
  

Westie Clinic

The Westie Clinic is a bi-monthly ~3 hours session.

Overall session rules:

• to ensure a good experience for everyone, each session is limited to 24 participants
• new participants and dancers who haven’t received feedback yet will have priority
• if you’re already actively working on something, please consider registering on the day of the Clinic, if spots are still available. This helps ensure that dancers who haven’t received any feedback yet can be first in line

The main goals are:

• offering more personal feedback
• help dancers who feel stuck
• growing the level of the community by tackling multiple aspects of being a dancer

The structure will be:

• personal feedback in the form of ~5 min privates
• focused practice (solo & partner switching). You can ask the teacher for help
• random spotlight groups training (not for competition, but as a training tool)

⚠️ The Westie Clinic is aimed to anyone who has completed at least 12 weeks of Tier 2: Recreational Westie, or has enough experience to dance comfortably on 80-110 BPM.

Seasoned Westie

Seasoned Westie is an invitational class designed for experienced dancers ready to enhance their connection, musicality, and movement at a deeper level. This class builds on strong fundamentals and pushes into advanced territory, blending technique with creativity.

Entry Criteria:

• Minimum 2 years of WCS experience
• Confident timing across 70–120 bpm
• Clean execution of foundational patterns
• Adaptive partnership skills and functional connection
• Demonstrated body control, balance, and frame integrity
  
  

What to Expect:

• Musicality & Interpretation
• Advanced Techniques
• Timing Play
• Connection Enhancements
• Patterns with new concepts

⚠️ Entry is by invitation only, with new applicants accepted every 12 weeks. Feel free to reach out if you're interested. We'll get in touch and most likely ask you for a dance or two before clearing you.