Toronto Lindy Hop

06/22/2026

ATTENTION ATTENTION!!! 🗣📣📢

We RETURN this Friday, June 26th 2026 with another half of a VERY big apple. Specifically, the second part of the Big Apple routine that we started learning at the last Hogtown. This time, we will be at a DIFFERENT VENUE (mere footsteps from the usual Dance Annex Studio 527)!!!

Join Aleks this time for part 2️⃣ of our special Big Apple edition of Hogtown Hop. Come learn the dance craze of the swing era choreographed by Frankie Manning!

No partner? DON'T NEED ONE!!! We'll groove solo together--socially ✨

🗓️ Date: Friday, June 26 2026
🕗 Time: 8pm - The Big Apple part 2, 9pm - solocial dance
📍Location: Dance Annex - Studio 693, 693 Bloor St W, Lower Level

🎟 Tickets: at the door or online on Tickettailor (+$1 processing fee)

💰 Pricing:
$15: lesson + DJ-ed dance
$10: DJ-ed social dance only
Full-time students with valid ID:
$10: lesson + DJ-ed dance all inclusive

👞 Bring indoor dance shoes or dance in socks to help us maintain the studio's beautiful floors! (Leave your outside shoes at the door)

Don't forget: a (big) 🍎 a day keeps the doctor away ☺️😉

06/12/2026

Be prepared to burn the floor as DJs Jasper and Dina spin some 🔥fire🔥 tunes that will get your feet moving after Aleks' workshop on the first part of the Big Apple! 🍎Remember to bring indoor shoes 👞 or dance in socks 🧦in studio!

🎟 Tickets are available for purchase online on Tickettailor or at the door. Cash is easier and saves you a $1 processing fee online!

📍Dance Annex Studio 527 is located mere steps from Bathurst Station on the Bloor Line. There is paid parking in lots close to the venue.

💰 Pricing:
$15: Big Apple Workshop workshop + dance
$10: Social dance only
Full-time students with valid ID:
$10: Big Apple Workshop workshop + dance all inclusive

SEE YOU TONIGHT!!!!

06/08/2026

Only 5 days to go until our next Hogtown solo workshop this Friday, so we thought we'd (re)-introduce our incredible teacher. You saw him perform at World Lindy Hop Day, he's the one and only: ALEKSANDR VALUISKIKH!

Aleks is a social swing dancer, competitor, and hobby musician. Aleks started dancing the Lindy Hop in 2013 in Smolensk, Russia, and has been actively dancing, teaching, traveling, choreographing, and competing all across North America since 2018. As a teacher, he strives to deliver lessons that are challenging yet engaging and fun. ✨🥳

Come learn the first part of the big apple 🍎 with Aleks on Friday!

05/27/2026

You see this very big apple on this image? Learn The Big Apple routine at Hogtown Hop!

Join our very own Aleks for part 1 of our special Big Apple edition of Hogtown Hop (part 2 will be on June 26 at a nearby venue)! Come learn the dance craze of the swing era choreographed by the man whose birthday we're celebrating today, Frankie Manning!

No partner? DON'T NEED ONE!!! We'll groove solo together--socially ✨

🗓️ Date: Friday, June 12
🕗 Time: 8pm - The Big Apple part 1, 9pm - solocial dance
📍Location: Dance Annex Studio 527, 527 Bloor St W, 2nd floor

🎟 Tickets: at the door or online on Tickettailor (+$1 processing fee)

💰 Pricing:
$15: lesson + DJ-ed dance
$10: DJ-ed social dance only
Full-time students with valid ID:
$10: lesson + DJ-ed dance all inclusive

👞 Bring indoor dance shoes or dance in socks to help us maintain the studio's beautiful floors! (Leave your outside shoes at the door)

05/22/2026

These pictures accurately reflect how we feel about the fact that TLH World Lindy Hop Day is ONE. DAY. AWAY. 🥹🥰

See you TOMORROW (Saturday, May 23rd 2026) at ~noon~ sharp at St. Barnabus for our three fantastic all-level Lindy Hop workshops (there's truly something for everyone: we made sure of that!) OR at 6:30 pm at Cecil Community Centre for the social dance of your life with Mr. Martin Loomer and the Orange Devils 🎺🍊😈

Credits for these photos, and all others from our winter Lindyland dance, go to the incredible Kang Kang Margolese 📸

GET READY TO SWING OUT!!! 🕺🕺🕺

05/20/2026

We are so lucky to have the incredible Kang Kang Margolese back as photographer for World Lindy Hop Day this Saturday, May 23rd. We can't wait to see the incredible photos he takes this time round. 📸🏞

Come to Cecil Community Centre at 6:30pm for our live band social with Martin Loomer and the Orange Devils, or start your day off earlier with workshops at St. Barnabas at noon!

See you soon :)

05/20/2026

**THIS JUST IN**
On the SECOND BAND BREAK of Toronto's World Lindy Hop Day dance this Saturday, we will throw a JUST DO IT CONTEST.

HOW IT WORKS:
1. NO SIGN UP NECESSARY! Just be on the dance floor and be ready to dance!
2. Choose your style: grab a friend and do lindy OR dance individually and do solo jazz!
3. DANCE! You will dance to four to five songs of various tempos for around 90 seconds each.
4. On the last song, judges will *TAP IN* three finalists. If you get tapped in, that means you're dancing in finals! Finalist can be a couple or an individual.
5. Finals will be AUDIENCE JUDGED. Finalists will trade choruses for jam style spotlight. Don't worry, we'll count you in.

Are you ready??!!

05/18/2026

Wise words about your dance journey from the legendary Dawn Hampton who celebrated World Lindy Hop Day with us in 2015.

Join us once again for our May 23rd, Toronto Celebrated World Lindy Hop Day with the best live big band music, beginner lesson, performances, workshops, a competition and more!

05/16/2026