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LEGEND OF THE YEAR 2019 **NOMINATIONS NOW CLOSED!**

Hello Dancers! It’s time to start thinking about who is going to be 2019’s legend of the year.  Have a look around the community and see who you think should be nominated.  Remember you can nominate as many people as you like! We’ve decided to make our annual Legend of the Year another People’s Choice […]

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First Aid Training for Team Swing Patrol

This year team Swing Patrol had the opportunity to do an accredited first aid training course with one of our amazing community members, Dave McDermott. We had so much fun while completing the one day Level 3 Emergency First Aid at Work. The full course specification can be found here:   http://www.firstaidawards.com/cfs/qualification-specifications/FAA-QS-EFAW.pdf   Scroll down to […]

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Solo courses only!

At our solo class we’ve decided to shift to offering courses rather than drop in classes. There are a number of reasons for this that we thought worth sharing with the curious amongst you!   1. Building Skills We really enjoy working with you in our courses and getting to know you a little bit […]

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Dancing at the Brighton Bandstand

We had a fantastic time dancing at the Brighton Bandstand again this summer and a massive thanks to the many who have come and danced. A special thanks to Nicole who has been instrumental in managing these free dances.   Scroll down to check out our photo and video gallery of the awesome Brighton swing […]

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Three in One!

Team Swing Patrol represent at three UK Summer festivals over one crazy weekend! Swing Patrol have a fabulous tradition of having a team of dancers at Summer Festivals but we have never had three different teams at three different Festivals.. all on the one weekend! Our fabulous three crews of dancers entertained crowds at Standon […]

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Goodbye Steph ‘n’ Pete!

I don’t write the Swing Patrol blogs and am very grateful to Anjali who does such an amazing job with the many cool blogs now on our website. I did want to write this one myself as I was so moved by what I recently witnessed. Our two King Cross Swing Patrol teachers are moving […]

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The Ahoy Ball 2019

Our Ahoy Ball is our annual dance on the Thames each summer where we cruise up and down the Thames while we enjoy the magnificent backdrop of London and dance the night away. Once again the Ahoy Ball was a total sell out. We danced our socks off to the sounds of our awesome DJs, Christopher Allen, Sam […]

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Swing at the Scoop!

Swing Patrol held two events at the Scoop in London Bridge in June and they were both awesome! Nothing like a bit of swing dancing by the river on a beautiful summer evening. We had taster classes where we got everyone up and dancing, not to mention amazing performances by our very own award winning […]

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A Summer of Festivals!

Swing Patrol love English summer festivals and they have always been part of our summer dancing. We have had teams sharing the dance we love at some of our favourite Festivals including Bestival, Camp Bestival, Secret Garden Party, The Good Life Experience, Wilderness, Love Supreme, Boomtown, Isle of What Festival, Love Box, Citadel, Green Man, […]

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Scott Cupit on BBC Somerset Radio

On the morning of Saturday 13th July, Scott & Arrianne were driving to Hayley & Adrian’s (our Clapham teachers) wedding in Cornwall. As they drove through Somerset they were tuned into BBC Somerset. The compère asked for anyone who had broken a World Record to phone in. Suddenly Scott found himself on the radio with […]