Columbia University Swing Dancing Club

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CU Swing is Columbia's swing dance club. It offers weekly, 1 hour classes in Lerner 555 taught by a professional swing instructor.

Levels

The class is offered at three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Anyone is free to show up for any class, but beginner is tailored towards students who have no prior swing experience.

Guy:Girl ratio

Most of the classes tend to have a slight excess of girls, with a guy girl ratio of about 4:5. To prevent anyone from being left without a partner, some girls will spend the class learning to dance as "leads".

PCification

To satisfy the PC needs of the Columbia community, the instructors make frequent, awkward attempts to play down the inherent sexism of a dance in which the "follow" partner (which guys never volunteer for) is expected to do whatever steps their "lead" partner (which girls rarely volunteer for) leads them into. You'll often hear phrases like "Ladies, you must rise to the occasion of being led." The instructor also encourages men to try acting as the follow and women act as the lead.

Club dues

As of Spring, 2007, semesterly dues were $20 (an uncomfortable jump from the $10 dues of 2006).

External Links

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