Swing into Lindy Hop
Part of Pomegranates 2024
(Sat 27 Apr: 8:30pm)
Come and try Lindy Hop with our Pomegranates festival dance musicians-in-residence from Edinburgh’s own Castle Rock Jazz Band.
Why Lindy Hop? Alongside Scottish Ceilidh, Jive and Swing, Lindy Hop is one of the social dance forms at the heart of the Pomegranates 2024 festival production Elegies - the first dance theatre adaptation of Hamish Henderson's poetry, his first-hand account from the frontlines of the Second World War. Developed by Black American communities in the 1930s, Lindy Hop soon became one of the popular social dance cultures of 1940s dance halls across the pond, where its frenetic movement, spinning and twirling were in part an attempt to escape and forget the horrors and atrocities of the war.
Join us for two joyful sets of Lindy Hop in the welcoming environment of the Storytelling Court, transformed for the night into a 1940s dance hall complete with a festival bar mixing pomegranate cocktails and mocktails. Swing with the rhythms and bring your own personality while sharing a dance with another person.
Established in 2022, Pomegranates is Scotland’s annual festival of international dance. Initiated and produced by Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in partnership with Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh City Libraries, Dance Base and the Scottish Storytelling Centre. This year, the festival features artists’ residencies and social dance sessions, exhibitions and tours, shows and workshops, plus our first Pomegranates Family Sunday. Find out more about Pomegranates below.
This event is ticketed on a Pay What You Can basis, suggested £10. A booking fee of £1.50 is charged per transaction.
