Go Hop the Jitterbugs!

    • 7. + 8. November 2026
    • Collegiate Shag (2 Levels)
    • Lindy Hop (2 levels)
    • Balboa (2 levels)
    • Teachers: Teresa Fernandez & Nicholas Taipa
    • 2 workshop days
    • 1 dance night, live: The Swing Service

Organizer: 1. Boogie Woogie Club

 

The partnership of Teresa and Nicholas grew from their shared jitterbug passion, meeting again and again on the Balboa, Shag, and Lindy Hop floors. Currently splitting their training time between Teresa’s home in Munich and Nicholas’s in Vilnius, they bring a passionate and playful energy to every class and competition, always ready to share their love of swing.

Get ready for inspiring and fun classes with Teresa and Nicholas!

 

 

                                Teresa
Fernandé

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicholas
Taipa                                           

 

Teresa discovered swing dancing in 2019. It wasn’t long before she knew she wanted to learn everything about it. Having been surrounded by music since childhood, she quickly learned the basics and became interested in various swing dance styles, including Lindy Hop, Collegiate Shag, Balboa, and Solo Charleston.
Since then, she has won the Fast Feet Endurance competition at the BCN Shag Festival three consecutive times and has placed in Balboa, Collegiate Shag, and Lindy Hop competitions. In addition, she has been teaching at Vintage Club in Munich since 2022, as well as at other swing dance events. Today, she continues to develop her passion for swing dancing through competing, teaching, and sharing the joy of dance with her students.
Nicholas has been teaching dance professionally since 2009. He started instructing ballroom, transitioned to Argentine Tango (won the US Championships), then stumbled into swing where he ended up winning a few Lindy, Shag, and Balboa competitions and coaching a team along the way.
After a pandemic detour into other projects and then some world traveling, he’s back to dancing and teaching in places like Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Germany, and California.

He believes partner dancing is one of the best things a person can do for themselves and their community.

 

 

 

The Swing Service are musicians who see jazz as an open art form: communicative, accessible and contemporary.
The band combines vocals, trombone, piano, double bass and drums to create a sound that is rooted in tradition while also looking to the future. Their repertoire includes selected jazz standards, interpreted with respect for history and the courage to add their own signature, presented in a variety of tempos that are perfect for dancing.

The Swing Service breathes new life into classics and shows how timeless swing really is. In doing so, they pursue a clear goal: to bring jazz out of its niche and into everyday life. Their music is intended to move, surprise and, above all, be accessible – for connoisseurs and newcomers alike.

 

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Zeitplan / Schedule
Saturday, 7.11.2026
10.45 h Check-in
11 – 12.30 h BALBOA curious
12.30 – 12.45 h break + check-in
12.45–14.15 h LINDY HOP curious
14.15 – 15.30 h lunch break
15.30 – 17 h LINDY HOP confident
Evening
20 – 1 h Social Dance Night with The Swing Service
Sunday, 8.11.2026
10.45 h Check-in
11 – 12.30 h SHAG curious
12.30 – 12.45 h break + check-in
12.45–14.15 h SHAG confident
14.15 – 15.30 h lunch break
15.30 – 17 h BALBOA confident
Levels

Please remember: dancing at a higher level isn’t about how long you’ve been dancing or how many moves you know – it’s about the quality of your movement, connection, balance, and musicality.
If you are unsure what levels to attend, please talk to the teachers of your current class.

Shag Curious

  • This course will refine your basics and get you on the social dancefloor in no time.
  • You’ve already started learning and dancing Shag and you want to improve your basics, deepen your knowledge and get new input.
  • You want to built up your vocabulary and experience and improve your musical dancing.
  • Local level: Shag Tempo Tuesday 1&2

Shag Confident

  • You are secure with dancing with the music and your body shows the rhythm when you dance.
  • You are able to dance to faster music in a relaxed way.
  • You incorporated a groove and shag-like posture.
  • Your vocabulary contents the basic Shag moves and a general understanding  of stretch, tension and release in dancing
  • You have a good connection and you can lead/follow more complex patterns without thinking about it too much.
  • Local level: Shag Tempo Tuesday 2 and UP.

Lindy Hop Curious

You have the most important Lindy Hop basics down in your sleep – like 6- and 8-count rhythms, Swing Out, Tuck Turn, Lindy Charleston… and you’ve attended many Lindy Hop classes and courses. You can connect your body to the music and partner, the bounce to the steps and music. You want to practice, understand and refine your basics and connect yourself more to the dance. You go to social dances on a regular basis.

Local level comparison: That Swing Level 2+3, KHG Erlangen Level 2 repeaters, BWC Monday Level 2 repeaters, swingomania intermediate

Lindy Hop Confident

You’ve been learning and dancing Lindy Hop intensively and you can draw from a wide repertoire of basics that you are confident in leading or following. And you already know that you will never be done learning Lindy Hop :D. You have attended several (international) workshops. You go to social dances regularly and feel confident with your dancing no matter to what tempo or with what partner you dance. You have a good connection and and can lead or follow more complex patterns without thinking about the basics. You want to dive deeper into styling, musicality and tempo.

Local level comparison: That Swing Level 3, KHG Erlangen Level 3, swingomania advanced and UP.

Balboa Curious

You have already collected some Balboa experience are able to lead/follow the basic rhythms. Now you want to practice, built up your vocabulary and experience and improve your musical dancing.

Local level comparison: Tempo Tuesday repeater, KHG-Kurs repeater

Balboa Confident

You are a huge fan of Balboa, have learned, practised and perhaps even understood the most important basics such as quicks, slows, up-hold, down-hold, toss out, come around, various footwork variations… and can dance to faster Balboa music.
You want to practise, understand and improve your basics and connect more with the music. You regularly go to social dances and other swing events.
Local level comparison: Tempo Tuesday intermediate repeater, KHG-Kurs intermediate repeater and UP!

Orte / Locations

 

  • Dance/practice night Saturday
    • Salon im Künstlerhaus (ground floor)
      Adresse: Künstlerhaus im KunstKulturQuartier. Königstraße 93 (Entrance at „Pfundskerl“ Restaurant)
Kosten

per block (1,5 h each)

  • Members of 1.BWC: 30 € per block
  • Non-members: 50 € per block
  • Non-members + students/pupils/apprentices: 40 € per block

Payment: Cash at check-in

Anmeldung / Registration

Individual registration is needed.
After you registered, if you cannot come for any reason please let us know as soon as possible.

zum Anmeldeformular – Registrationform

 

Dance Night

 

SATURDAY Salon im Künstlerhaus

Dance night with DJs and live music.
LIVE: The Swing Service
No entrance fee, donations appreciated.

8 pm – 1 am

Find the location and google maps links above under LOCATIONS.