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 September 2025.
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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; • Learn how to do pop-turns and other spins; • Working on your confidence as a dancer; • Charleston tandem.
Cotton Candies
This is one of our two highest levels and focuses on social dancing skills and having fun on the dancefloor. This level features rotating content and is intended to be taken multiple times. For some it may be where they will spend most of their time dancing with us to just dance a night away. Your basics are clean and your triple-steps are spot on. You can effortlessly lead or follow a promenade, lindy circle and Charleston hand-to-hand, and you are quite familiar with the swing-out and tandem charleston. You want to work on your technique and connection as well as expand your Lindy Hop vocabulary. During this course you can expect to: • Learn intermediate figures that go beyond standard six or eight count moves; • Focus more on social dancing; • Perfect your swingout and add fantastic variations; • Gently speed up your Charleston and Lindy dancing.
Marshmallows
This is one of our two highest levels and focuses more on dancing technique. This class is meant for those who've taken their dancing, technique and motivation to the highest level with us. The Marshmallows require you to be present regularly in order to keep up - and to practice often by social dancing or with a practice partner. The class will feature rotating content and is thus suitable to be taken multiple times. You are ready to learn advanced moves, but you also realise that you’ll need to continue working on the core moves to hone your fundamentals. You know how to effortlessly lead or follow swingouts, Charleston in tandem and fast Lindy Hop. You are starting to use rhythm variations in your footwork and know how to use connection to dance beyond just the basic figures. During this course you work on: • Obtaining a deeper understanding of the principles of the dance; • Blending Charleston and Lindy; • Perfecting your fundamentals; • Learning advanced rhythm and figure variations.
Schedule (February onwards)
Mondays
Time | Big Room | Small Room |
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19:00 - 20:00 | Sugarbeats (L1) | Cotton Candies |
20:00 - 20:45 | Social Dance | |
20:45 - 21:45 | Lollipops (L2) | Marshmallows |
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 can commit to dancing both courses, 2) there's enough space in class, and 3) if that class' balance of lead/follows allows for 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 2025.
Social fund
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. You can read about the requirements and application on their website.
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. Become a better dancer by becoming a better person. Here are some additional suggestions on dancing etiquette and floorcraft.
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Always be excellent to each other.