Here's the info for Friday to Monday (There are so many events, I'm
wondering, is this Champaign, or Chicago??):
Friday (3 events)
Dance Contest in Salsa & Swing
8 PM, at the Levis Faculty Center (check your campus map)
$7 per couple to compete, $3 cover for non-participants.
Open dance floor and live entertainment. First Prizes for
both categories is $50 cash and a trophy.
Jazz Happy Hour ($2) Canopy Club, SUSAN HOFER & FRIENDS
5 to 7pm
Cutting Edge will be hosting swing night in 314 Illini Union
(the big room right off the north elevators) on Friday, April 2 with
beginner lessons by Jeff from 8:30-9:00 and music from 9-12. Admission
will be $2.
also...
Salsa at the Regent, 11:30pm
Saturday (4 events)
IVCF: InterVarsity Swing Dance at the Union, 8:30pm. Lessons by Stef
dancing till midnight!
THE FIRST EVER CTMC SWING DANCE!
(Christian Music Theater Club), 7pm-midnight
newman hall lounge (lewis lounge) 6th and Armory
it is $2 (the money goes to oliver!)
lessons start at 7:00 By Christi and Warren
Dancing Illini Spring Social: Nightclub and Latin Dance (and workshop)
Where: Freer Hall room 310, NE corner of Goodwin & Gregory
Cost: free, dancing 7:30 to 10, e-mail <incognita1@hotmail.com>
(workshop is earlier in the day)
White Street Arts Center Teen Dance, 9pm to 11:30pm
cost: 1 dollar. Contact <prisecar@uiuc.edu> for info,
no smoking/drinking/hanky panky, dress to swingpress,
location: on White Street, between 3rd and 4th
*my mother will be there! (I'm serious)
also...
Maryanne's in Charleston
also...
the Virtues, at JuJu's
Sunday
the Office (Urbana). 18 or over. Free Lindy Hop pointers
at 9pm, by the Swing Society, Dancing at 9:30pm. Free event,
so please buy something (kitchen is open 'till 11pm).
Monday
U of I Jazz Band II at City of New Orleans
Singer: Valene Granger ("Val the Gal") YEAH!!!
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also: Don't forget the Champaign County Nursing Home Swing Dance!
It's Friday, April 2, at 6:45pm until 8pm. It's in Urbana, on Main.
also: April 9,10,11 you should go to:
U.S.O. Revival Weekend
Be a part of five generations of dancing, music, and good times. Events
for
all ages.
The Main Event The Big Night Out
Featured entertainment
The Blues Swingers Speak Easy Swing
Dancers from across the country Teen Dance Contest
LOTS OF DANCE SPACE!!!!!!!!!! Navy Pier Grand Ballroom
Sunday April 11, 1999 6pm-12am
$18.00 General Admission
Tickets available at: Ticket Master-312-559-1212
also, check the hotline: 312-895-4250
or check out the website @ www.slohand.com
Finally, Andy Weaver is interested in getting a head count of how many
people would attend an intermediate lindy hop workshop before school is
out, from some famous Chicago instructors. They're AWESOME! If you
would be interested in taking it, e-mail Andy Weaver <bweaver@uiuc.edu>,
and include in the e-mail either "interested" or "definitely going."
Have a great weekend,
:)
Valentin Ion Prisecaru
President, Swing Society of the University of Illinois