3 - 5 May 2024

Lindy Hop weekend with Peter & Lauren

For Dancers Only returns in May 2024, offering a captivating weekend filled with workshops and socials. Focused on elevating your social dance skills, FDO is dedicated to ensuring you get maximum enjoyment and fun from your swing dance styles.

TIX at the ​door

About Us

The Team

The Teachers

Trudi started For Dancers Only in 2014, travelling around Australia to teach alongside Peter. Dean has been helping carry the heavy things since the 2015 event and now together they are producing the biggest one ever!

Peter and Lauren are two dynamic swing dance instructors with over forty years of teaching experience between them in the great classic dances of the Swing Era. Based in Seattle, they spend much of their time teaching at dance events and workshops all over the world.

SCHEDULe

class descriptions

Class 1: Make It Comfy. Technique upgrades to ​take your dancing to the next level and make ​each social dance as easy and efficient as ​possible.

Class 2: Make it Smooth. Explore the Art of ​moving between 6-count and 8-count moves ​with ease and finding creative ways to add ​additional rhythmic variations to your dancing.

Class 3: Make It Fast. Learn how to make fast ​tempos feel as easy as slower songs. Explore ​tricks and techniques to keep you dancing all ​night.

Class 4: The Science of Social Dancing. Our ​most popular class! Part experiment, part game, ​you’ll come out of this class with incredible new ​insights into partner dancing and your influence ​on each other.

Class 5: Fancy Feet. Play with footwork variations ​to add style and pizzazz to your everyday social ​dancing!

Class 6: Playful Move Combos. Learn one of our ​favorite move combos inspired by solo jazz ​movements from the swing era.

Class 7: Musicality 101: BEYOND THE BREAKS. ​Suitable for all levels and abilities, this class ​shows students immediately usable ways in ​which great dancers REALLY use musicality in ​their dancing. This is not the usual “Music Theory ​& Structure 101” class.

Class 8: Musicality 102: EXPLORE YOUR STYLE. ​This class takes musicality and makes it personal ​as we explore your own individual style.

passes

All Workshops & Socials

All Social Dances

Friday

Art of Social Dancing

Saturday

Workshops, Ball & Late Night

Sunday

Workshops & Social Dance

Friday

Art of Social Dancing

Saturday

Ball & Late Night

Sunday

Social Dance

*both passes include entry into the Mix & Match and/or Strictly Lindy competitions at the Saturday Ball

tickets

Single Day Workshop

Saturday Only

Workshops $120

Sunday Only

Workshops $120

Individual Social Events

Friday

Art of Social Dancing $40

Saturday

Ball $45

Late Night $20

Sunday

Social Dance $45

*Saturday Ball ticket includes entry into the Mix & ​Match and/or Strictly Lindy competitions

competitions

At the Saturday Evening Ball!

FULL pass, SOCIAL pass, and Ball ticket include entry to the comp.

Mix & Match

Strictly Lindy

Competitors are randomly partnered with a ​dancer of the opposite role and are judged as ​a partnership on how well they dance to part ​of a randomly selected song. They are ​generally free from pre-planned ​choreography and aerials. In this way, mix-​and-match competitions are one of the ​closest ways to being able to judge a ​partnership’s ability to social dance, which is ​what For Dancer’s Only is all about!

Competitors choose their own partner ​beforehand and enter as a couple. They are ​judged as this couple in both the heat and ​the finals. Although choreographed ​sequences are not disallowed, the judges will ​be looking for timing, spontaneity, creativity, ​teamwork, technique, variety, musicality and ​connection to the music. Strictly Lindy is ​where you’ll see the tricks & aerials!

vo​lunteer

Helpers

Support Staff

You will be volunteering your time ​helping the FDO team over the weekend.

This is for 1 hour or 2 hours of help.

In recognition of the hours you will be ​taking out of your weekend at FDO, ​Support Staff will receive a refund of $30 ​once all their shifts have been completed.

This is for over 2 hours of help.

An event like this takes a lot of work to organise, but it’s when the weekend is ​underway that we need more hands to keep everything running smoothly.

We need people who can: lift heavy stuff, check off passes, decorate, look after a band, ​sweep, collect things, handle monies, sell tickets, answer questions, etc etc....

private lessons

Why take a private?

About

Cost: AUD $300 per hour. This is for both ​Peter and Lauren, and includes studio hire & ​all fees. You are welcome to share with ​other dancers.

What: Lindy Hop, Balboa, Collegiate Shag, ​Slow Jazz, Tap

Where: The Wriggle Room, Level 1 / 201 ​Marrickville Road

When: Times will be made available from ​Tuesday 30th April - Tuesday 7th May.

Private dance instruction (from your ​regular class teacher or visiting ​international teachers) is a highly ​recommended way to learn.

• Customised to your learning and ​dancing requirements
• More specific - great way to get ​nerdy on one or two things
  
• Time flexibility
• Accelerated learning

COde of conduct

Safe Spaces

For Dancers Only is dedicated to providing an exciting and fun dance experience for attendees to all of our events. Our event is welcome to all, regardless of gender/gender identity, race, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, religion, or any other potentially segregating criteria. At all of our events, we insist that all attendees, instructors, and volunteers adhere to the safe space policy rules outlined below.​

1. Always seek consent. Everyone has the right to refuse to dance at anytime during classes & events without giving a reason.
   
2. Be respectful. Do not use misogynist, misandrist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, racist, or other prejudiced language.
3. Do not bully or harass anyone at our events. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of workshops or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

The organisers will respond to rule violations with verbal warnings, expulsion from the event, contacting of local police, and/or other actions at the organisers discretion. Please take a moment to review the rules listed above before attending our events in order to ensure understanding and prevent unfortunate events.​

We care about your safety and well-being. If anyone or anything makes you feel uncomfortable at our events, or you see someone else being harassed, please do not hesitate contact Trudi and/or Dean. You may also contact us anonymously using an online form which will be available here prior to the event.

policies

Ticketing - Refunds

Health

We do not refund those who registered for a class or ​event but cannot attend because they have changed their ​mind, or do not attend, this includes conflicts with work ​or travel.

We will, however, issue a refund for missed attendance if ​it is for a serious health related reason (eg: COVID ​related illness, hospitalisation) or death of a close friend ​or family member.

Further details can be found on the ticket website & on ​your ticket once purchased.

We take the health of our community seriously.

Do not attend class or an event if you are sick or are likely to infect others. We will issue you a refund if you cannot come to a class or event due to illness & supply a doctors certificate.

Masks

Masks covering the mouth and nose are welcome to ​be worn at any of the classes or events if you so wish.