Courses
Looking to learn Lindy Hop? Total beginner or advanced, Sugarspin is thrilled to welcome you. You don't need a fixed dancing partner, we rotate partners in class.
We start a course twice a year, next one in February 2027. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date. Hope to see you on the dancefloor soon!
Levels / Classes
Sugarbeats
Level 1
You’re a beginner and want to experience the Lindy Hop! With the Sugarbeats you’ll learn the fundamentals: partner connection, differences between six- and eight-count moves, and basic steps towards your first Swingouts. We’ll also take you along with us to your first social dance! During this course you can expect: • Six-count moves such as the send-out, pass-by and tuck-turn; • Eight-count moves such as the promenade and lindy circle; • Floorcraft: how to dance in tight spaces; • The Charleston: how to keep dancing when music gets fast!
Lollipops
Level 2
You completed the Sugarbeats and feel like digging deeper into the dance. The Lollipops-course will help improve your basics- and treat you to new moves and techniques. If you want to comfortably develop your basics before moving on to the Cotton Candies, you are encouraged to repeat this class. With the Lollipops you can expect: • Lindy Hop’s signature moves like the swingout and sugarpush; • Techniques such as: frame, compression and momentum; • Working on your confidence as a dancer; • Charleston tandem.
Cotton Candies
Level 3
You have mastered the material taught in the Sugarbeats and Lollipops and are ready for the next level! In the Cotton Candies you'll finetune your basics and your technique, as well as be introduced to several intermediate figures. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀, 𝘀𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸. During this course you will learn: • Clean basics, perfect triples • Comfortably dancing Lindy to a broad range of tempos (90-180bpm) • Perfecting your swingouts • Intermediate figures (pop turns, barrel rolls, sailor kicks, Frankie sixes, hacksaws, airplanes, and more!) • Variations on figures learnt in the Lollipops.
Marshmallows
Level 4
You have completed the Cotton Candies at least twice in your dancing role, and mastered the material in the Cotton Candies level description. You are ready for new challenges! The Marshmallows is our highest level class, where we focus less on building repertoire and more on improving the fundamental aspects of dancing such as connection, posture, flow, frame, rhythm, and styling. New moves are taught in a way that facilitates the improvement of underlying fundamentals. This is also the level where you will really start to take 'vanilla' moves and learn to express yourself, based on personality, music and partnership. Other topics on the curriculum are rhythm variations, musicality and Charleston. The aim of this level is to make you a fundamentally better dancer; not because you know flashy moves (we will cover those too of course!), but because you have more control of your movements and a greater sensitivity to the partnership and music. 𝗧𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝟳𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀.
Bluesberry Muffins
A new class within Sugarspin that focuses on blues dancing. Blues dances are swing dances that predate Lindy Hop and are characterized by the pulse, the rhythmic connection to the music, that still allows you to groove and dance freely to Blues music, alone or with a partner. The level is open to everyone and will start from complete beginner level and is suitable for everyone that wants to learn more about blues dancing! During this course you will learn: • To dance within the blues aesthetic • Skills on how to be a good dancepartner. • Techniques to connect to the music and your partner. • Solo dancing as an individual dancer and solo movement within a partner dance. • Musicality by embodying different types of rhythms within blues dancing. • Improvisation and ways of inspiring each other. • Vocabulary within blues dances.
Schedule
September 2026 - February 2027
Mondays
Time | Big Room | Aquarium room | Small Room |
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19:00 - 20:00 | Sugarbeats (L1) | Marshmallows (L4) | Bluesberry Muffins |
20:00 - 20:45 | Social dance | ||
20:45 - 21:45 | Cotton Candies (L3) | Lollipops (L2) | Practice space |
No lessons on:
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28-12-2026 Christmas holiday
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04-01-2027 Christmas holiday
On 25-01-2027 we dance the last lesson of this block.
Cost & Registration
Class | # of lessons | Cost |
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Lindy Hop (all) | Ca. 18 | Membership (€ 140,00) |
Membership (€140,-)
At Sugarspin you pay a membership fee. As a member you register for a main course, but you can take an extra course that would fit your dancing level (if there's space, and the lead/follow balance allows for it). So potentially you can take extra classes at no extra cost. This way we want to encourage our dancers to revisit material/techniques from a previous course - or start learning the other role (lead/follow).
E.g. when a follow dancer completes the Sugarbeats (Level 1) and moves to Lollipops (Level 2), they might also apply for the Sugarbeats again, this time to learn how to be a lead-dancer. This dancer can also be admitted to the Sugarbeats as a lead if
1) they commit to dancing both courses,
2) there's enough space in class, and
3) that class' lead/follow balance allows it.
The current membership fee is €140,-. Membership lasts for the duration of one block of ca. 18 weekly lessons, spread over ca. 5 months. The next lesson block starts September 2026.
Social support
Social Fund
For many dancers in our community, Lindy Hop is more than just a hobby; it’s a source of energy, and a place to let go and connect with others. We'd like people to have the possibility to meet and dance together, no matter their socio-economic background. That’s why we created a social fund that’s available to anyone who needs a little support to make our classes accessible to them. If you need to make use of the social fund to pay for a course, you can let us know in the registration form.
If you'd like to donate to the social fund, you can register the amount in the registration form. Your contribution will be used exclusively to offer a fellow dancer in financial need a registration at a discounted rate. If you'd like to make a one-time contribution outside of the registration time – send us an email and we’ll provide you with the details.
Volwassenenfonds
The municipality of Groningen wants to encourage people to be active in sports or the arts. People who are living on subsistence level can apply for the Volwassenenfonds through their local WIJ-team to get financial support for this purpose. Here you can read about the requirements and application.
Location : Floresplein 19, Groningen
House rules
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Be on time for your lesson. Your teachers and fellow students appreciate it.
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Pay close attention to your body's needs to prevent injury. If you feel like you need more of a warm up / cooling down, act accordingly.
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We are guests at Het Floreshuis, and staff consists mostly of volunteers. Let's help each other out; please clean up after yourself.
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Wear shoes with light-coloured soles so you don't leave skidmarks on the floor.
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Bring a water bottle, a fan or towel / 2nd shirt in case things get hot (they sometimes will).
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Ask for a dance. Outright grabbing someones hand is not appreciated. Here are some additional suggestions on dancing etiquette and floorcraft.
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Always be excellent to each other.