Perth City Swing

Perth City Swing We teach the Lindy Hop! A vintage social dance powered by the soundtrack of Big Band Swing.

If you can have fun and smile at the same time, you're halfway there - just like it was in the 1930's, the music will take care of the rest!

✨ CLASS REVIEW! ✨Oh, what a night for COOL THINGS!Level 1 tackled the Swing Out from Open with style and sass while Leve...
10/06/2026

✨ CLASS REVIEW! ✨

Oh, what a night for COOL THINGS!

Level 1 tackled the Swing Out from Open with style and sass while Level 2 welcomed Helen, John and Louise stepping up for the first time - and what a time we had! There were connected and disconnected Tuck Turns, and Double Turn Outs with bells on, but most importantly there were CATCH UPS, and all the fun and playfulness that comes with the concept of surprising your partner 🌟

This weekend there’s every chance to try out your new moves on the social floor - Oz Big Band is taking to the stage from 7pm at the Mustang Bar on Friday night
https://facebook.com/events/s/oz-big-band-at-the-mustang-bar/1747345893091086/

and Smooth Sailing is this coming Sunday from 5pm. Let’s dance!
https://facebook.com/events/s/smooth-sailing/1289796419846951/

- Gemma and Robbie


✨ Happy Birthday Dawn Hampton! ✨Dawn Hampton was born on 9 June 1928. She was a cabaret and jazz singer, performer, saxo...
09/06/2026

✨ Happy Birthday Dawn Hampton! ✨

Dawn Hampton was born on 9 June 1928. She was a cabaret and jazz singer, performer, saxophonist, dancer, songwriter, and one of swing dancing’s legends.

Dawn Hampton began her lifelong career as a musical entertainer with the Hampton family’s band when she was just three years old! Alongside other members of the musical Hamptons, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater and the Savoy Ballroom in New York City, and was a recipient of the State of Indiana’s Governor Arts Award in 1991.

Known as the ‘Queen of Cabaret’, Dawn Hampton delighted audiences with her original compositions and expressive, theatrical presence. As a dancer, she was largely celebrated for her incredible musicality. Her passion for feeling the music was infectious and her perfectly timed smooth style was an inspiration to all.

The Swing Revival of the late 1980’s brought Dawn Hampton to worldwide attention again. ‘The Lady’ as she was also known, continued to perform and dance, sharing her story and teaching workshops all over the world.

Fun fact: In 1992, alongside Frankie Manning and Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton appeared as a dancer in the Lindy Hop swing dance scene in Spike Lee‘s movie, Malcolm X.

Image 1: by Tamara Pinco
Image 2: From my personal archives, taken in Harlem, NYC at a Street Parade celebrating the inauguration of World Lindy Hop Day on 26 May 2014. Dawn Hampton is handing out copies of her famous handwritten Prayers - one of which I was lucky to receive! Thank you, Dawn. The light is on, always 🌟

TONIGHT AT NORTH PERTH TOWN HALL!While the Winter rains are storming on, we’re dancing up a storm of our own kind in the...
09/06/2026

TONIGHT AT NORTH PERTH TOWN HALL!

While the Winter rains are storming on, we’re dancing up a storm of our own kind in the Big Hall and EVERYONE’S invited!

6:30pm Level 1: Week 3 of our 5 week drop in Beginner Syllabus - The Swing Out from Open

7:30pm: Level 2: Let’s play Catch Up! When the lead surprises the follow in playful and creative ways…

Awwww YEAH!

- Gemma and Robbie

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✨ CLASS REVIEW! ✨WOWEEEEE North Perth, you know how to BRING IT. Last nights classes were a RIOT!Level 1 was joined by A...
03/06/2026

✨ CLASS REVIEW! ✨

WOWEEEEE North Perth, you know how to BRING IT. Last nights classes were a RIOT!

Level 1 was joined by Andrew, Amy, Eva, Danni and a million more smiles where our 8 Count Rhythm took us on a journey to some sweet Swing Outs from Closed and a Lindy Circle as the icing on the cake 🌟

Then in Level 2, we fine tuned our Swing Out fundamentals before turnin’ up the SPICE with some inside turns for follows and an extra turn on top for everyone!

SO FUN. Thanks for a great night team, see you next week!

- Gemma and the ever wonderful Cheryl


TONIGHT AT NORTH PERTH TOWN HALL!Come rain or shine, Tuesday nights at the Big Hall is where the fun is AT and tonight i...
02/06/2026

TONIGHT AT NORTH PERTH TOWN HALL!

Come rain or shine, Tuesday nights at the Big Hall is where the fun is AT and tonight is no exception!

6:30pm Level 1: Week 2 of our 5 week drop in Beginner Syllabus - The 8 Count Basic and Swing Out from Closed!

7:30pm: Level 2: TURNIN’ up the spice in The Swing Out!

See you there!

- Gemma and Cheryl


🎵 Where to Social Dance in June! 🎵Friday 5 June - The Mustang BarSwing DJ from 6.30pmLive music from Adam Hall & The Vel...
01/06/2026

🎵 Where to Social Dance in June! 🎵

Friday 5 June - The Mustang Bar
Swing DJ from 6.30pm
Live music from Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys from 7pm
FREE before 8pm, $10 door charge after

Friday 12 June - The Mustang Bar
Swing DJ from 6.30pm
Live music from Oz Big Band from 7pm
FREE before 8pm, $10 door charge after

Sunday 14 June - Smooth Sailing
Swing DJ from 5pm - 7pm at the WA Rowing Club
$5 Members / $10 Non-members
https://www.facebook.com/share/1JPdosXnXR/

Friday 19 June - The Mustang Slowdown!
Swing DJ from 6.30pm
**BEGINNER FRIENDLY** Live music from Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys from 7pm
FREE before 8pm, $10 door charge after
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EvT7mx184/

Friday 26 June - The Mustang Bar
Swing DJ from 6.30pm
Live music from Oz Big Band from 7pm
FREE before 8pm, $10 door charge after
https://facebook.com/events/s/oz-big-band-at-the-mustang-bar/1526303125745317/

See you on the floor!

✨ Happy Birthday Clora Bryant! ✨Clora Bryant was born on 30 May 1927. She was an American jazz musician and vocalist and...
30/05/2026

✨ Happy Birthday Clora Bryant! ✨

Clora Bryant was born on 30 May 1927. She was an American jazz musician and vocalist and one of the first female jazz trumpeters to gain national recognition.

Self taught from a young age, Clora Bryant was a vivacious and fiery trumpet player with a powerful sound. She was a featured soloist for celebrated all female big band orchestra ‘The International Sweethearts of Rhythm’ and a drummer for ‘Queens of Swing’ - an all black female jazz band, with whom she toured.

With her flawless technique, she played with skill and authority. She swung with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker and Harry James, performed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and was the only female trumpeter - or trumpetiste as she liked to be called - to perform with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

Later in life, she gave lectures on college campuses about the history of jazz and in 2002, she was honoured the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz award at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Clora Bryant was a force in jazz who broke gender barriers with her horn, playing a critical role in carving a place for women instrumentalists in the male-dominated world of jazz, and inspiring countless female jazz players to follow her lead.

Fun Fact: As a child, Clora Bryant’s father - an unflagging supporter of her dreams - took her to the dance halls where jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Jimmie Lunceford were playing and stood outside the window with her on his shoulders so she could hear the music.

Image: Clora Bryant playing at Hermosa Beach, California, in 1954 by Loomis Dean/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images

✨ CLASS REVIEW! ✨OOF. There were smiles for miles, swingin’ beats, and the happiest of HAPPY faces and feet!Tom and Mimi...
27/05/2026

✨ CLASS REVIEW! ✨

OOF. There were smiles for miles, swingin’ beats, and the happiest of HAPPY faces and feet!

Tom and Mimi joined in on Level 1 where we served up a smorgasbord of Six Count and looked ACE while we danced it! Then our Musicality Specialty Class got nerdy about phrasing, geeky about history, funky to some classic tuuuuuunes and super PLAYFUL in our Lindy Hop, taking moves and grooves to the next level with a whole heap of tips and inspirations to take to the social floor. To top it off, we danced to Shiny Stockings in honour of Frankie Manning’s birthday 🌟

Thanks for celebrating World Lindy Hop Day with us. (And thanks so much for my own surprise birthday love 🥰) We had an absolute BLAST!

- Gemma and Robbie

✨ Happy World Lindy Hop Day! ✨ and✨ Happy Birthday Frankie Manning! ✨Today, the swing dance community worldwide celebrat...
26/05/2026

✨ Happy World Lindy Hop Day! ✨ and
✨ Happy Birthday Frankie Manning! ✨

Today, the swing dance community worldwide celebrates the joy of Lindy Hop and the birthday, life and achievements of Frankie Manning.

Frankie Manning was born on 26 May 1914. He was one of the pioneers of the dance in the late 1920’s, a legendary member of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers and a choreographer and instructor who stood out for his high energy dancing, innovative routines and BIG personality. He is credited with creating the ‘air step’ in the dance (alongside partner Frieda Washington), while his groundbreaking choreography for the dance scene in the 1941 film Hellzapoppin' is widely celebrated as the pinnacle of Lindy Hop.

Frankie Manning played a vital role in the revival and historical preservation of swing dancing leaving a lasting legacy as Ambassador of Lindy Hop. To honour one of the most celebrated dancers in swing history, World Lindy Hop Day was officially inaugurated on 26 May 2014 - on what would have been Frankie’s 100th Birthday.

Fun fact: Frankie Manning’s nickname was ‘Musclehead’ because he danced so hard with such intense passion, speed, and athleticism that the veins in his neck and head would visibly bulge!

So, wherever you may be this fine Tuesday, be sure to lock in some time and space to dance, dance, DANCE! Bust out a sweet swing out or two, sprinkle in a Shim Sham, or just rock step, triple step your way through the day. But above all, let’s take a moment to appreciate how AMAZING Lindy Hop is and what a wonder it is to be able to dance this historical dance.

Happy World Lindy Hop Day!

Images:
1. Frankie Manning and Ann Johnson performing the sn**ch in a still from ‘Hellzapoppin’ 1941
2. Couple competing in a Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hop contest, by George Karger 1938
3. Whyte's Hopping Maniacs, Paris 1937 photo credited to Studio C.Bracken (Dancers from left to right: Naomi Waller and Frankie Manning, Lucille Middleton and Jerome Williams, Mildred Cruse and Billy Williams.)
4. Frankie Manning, age 80, performing at the Smithsonian Institute by Frank Johnston / The Washington Post via Getty Images

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