31 Jan - 2 Feb 2025

I Say HellO!

Get yourself a ticket to ride & join us for Lindy in the Sky with Diamonds Swing Dance Festival. Featuring international teachers, adventurous learning, and three parties in two boss venues, you'll wish this weekender lasted eight days a week (it's only 3!)

teaching LINEUP

Help! I need somebody! We love to get recommendations from our community of who we should ask to join us for Lindy in the Sky. Our requirements? Inspiring, creative, fun, would want to chat with them over a pint. We reckon we've got a great lineup for 2025- we're finalising some details, here's who's confirmed so far!

Stephen Atemie & Korantema Anyimadu

Stephen is a fresh young talent emerging from the new generation of Lindy Hoppers. In 2017, Stephen travelled to South Africa to spend a month working with the charity Sing Inchanga. There he shared skills with local children & young people across their own dance styles and Lindy Hop. Stephen's performance/competition credits include 10 Downing Street, Harrods, Savoy Cup (France), ILHC (USA). His latest projects include organising talks, webinars and advocacy for cultural appreciation within the Lindy Hop/AAVJ communities across the world as a board member for Collective Voices For Change (CVFV)

Korantema Anyimadu is a dancer from London and fell in love with African American Vernacular Jazz in 2014. She has tapped for Zadie Smith and performed at the 2012 London Olympics. When she's not dancing, Korantema is a curator and zine maker, and runs an award winning creative project called Black Hair Stories. She is passionate about the cultural links between the past and the present, and the stories of the African and Caribbean diaspora. Korantema was the former co-leader of the chorus line troupe, The London Starlings (formerly known as The Dinahs)

Claudia Fonte

Swing dancer (Lindy Hop & Authentic Jazz), Clàudia Fonte explores and embraces all kinds of playful ways in her dancing. Her main source and inspiration is Swing music itself. Taking the classic rhythms and moves as the foundation, she challenges herself to keep them alive through her own perspective and interpretation. Even though considering and admiring the great historical tradition of Swing dances, she believes in its evolution and expansion; respecting but also transforming the roots she explores different ways of communication and expression, as in vernacular jazz also in the partner dance.

Authentic Jazz is where she feels most in her element. Solo jazz enables her to achieve a creative atmosphere of exploration and play where she takes on the challenges proposed by Swing music and finds her own voice and style. Essential to her approach is promoting solo dancing in the context of social dancing. Sharing tools and techniques her objective is to help the dancers to explore and develop a style the most authentic for them. She believes that the dance floor is where everything starts, and the magic happens; where all dancers find their own way of dancing.

Schedule

The long and winding road leads

Classes:

The Arts Bar on Hope Street

Liverpool Guild of Students

Party Venues:

Friday & Saturday Night - Mountford Hall, Guild of Students

Sunday Night - Stanley Theatre, Guild of Students

Please note- the Arts Bar has steps to the entrance and lifts internally. Other venues are fully wheelchair accessible, if you need more detailed info, email us

Friday

6.30pm Registration opens

7.pm Social begins

11.45pm Social ends

Saturday

10am Registration opens
10.30am Classes start
3.45pm Classes end

4pm Panel Discussion
7pm Social starts
11.45pm Social ends

Sunday

10.30am Classes and tasters start

3.45pm Classes end

4.30pm Social starts

7.30pm Social ends

Registration

Passes:

Super Early Bird:

Full Weekend Pass (all classes & socials) £150

Socials Pass £50

Early Bird:

Full Weekend Pass (all classes & socials) £160

Socials Pass £55

Regular Prices:

Full Weekend Pass (all classes & socials) £170

Socials Pass £60

All tickets will be released on 5th October
Early Bird Full Weekend pass will be on sale throughout November
Regular Weekend passes will be on sale throughout December & early January

Shared passes are for two people sharing the same ticket- only one person from the pair can be at the festival at a time- it's ideal for parents, carers or those managing health conditions that might mean they're unable to do a full weekend.
Pay What You Can if you're unable to pay full price, contact us to get on the waiting list for these passes (no questions asked), we release one place for every ten passes we sell.

email: info@merseyswing.com

Registration form