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Saturday Night Swing

Swing Dynamite's weekly dance - 151 Chapel St. features great jazz and blues music for all styles of swing dancing, and frequent special events.  One room for Vintage Swing dancing and one room for West Coast Swing dancing.  Beginner Lesson: 8:15pm, Dancing: 9pm-1am For more info please see the Saturday Night Swing (saturdaynightswing.com) website. Bring a change of shoes to dance in!

Uptown@DWA

Monthly  Saturday-Night West Coast Swing Dance Party from 8pm - midnight (and after party). 
Dance With Alana Studios - 1800 Bank Street (@Alta Vista), Suite Lucky #13 (Free parking)
Cover is $7/person – $1 for cold water/pop. DJed music: Blues, R&B, Contemporary, Soul, Motown, Pop, Funk.  See http://dancewithalana.com for dates and more details.

Sunday Social

Once a month come out & practice your Swing & Salsa dancing at Dance With Alana`s Sunday Social from 2pm - 5pm. No partner or experience needed. 
Dance With Alana Studios - 1800 Bank Street (@Alta Vista), Suite Lucky #13
Check the schedule posted on http://dancewithalana.com for dates and more details.

Weekly Blues Dance (Sundays)

Blues Dancers are welcome to the live blues performances at Atomic Rooster on Sunday evenings from 6:00-8:00pm.  Facebook page >>


Where to Dance

In Ottawa

University of Ottawa - SwingUO
Carleton University - www.carleton.ca/carletonswing
Saturday Night Swing - www.saturdaynightswing.com/
Count On Dancing - www.countondancing.com/parties_dhd

Dave's list of Ottawa venues and events - www.dance-ottawa.com
Ottawa Blues Jazz & Swing Guide - www.ncf.ca/ottawa-blues-jazz

Out of Ottawa

Jody's Event list - www.swingoutoftown.com

Montreal
Swingin' Montréal - www.swinginmontreal.com
Swinging Air Force - www.swingingairforce.com
Studio 88 Swing - www.studio88swingin.com
Le Jazz Hot http://www.lejazzhot.ca/
Cats' Corner - www.catscorner.ca

Kingston
Queen's Swing Club - http://www.queensswingclub.com

Swinger's Dozen - http://swingersdozen.googlepages.com

Toronto
Toronto Swing Dance Society - www.dancing.org/tsds
Toronto Lindy Hop - www.torontolindyhop.com
Odd Socks - odd-socks.org

Québec City
Port-o-Swing - www.portoswing.com

Way way out of Ottawa

Cleveland
Cleveland Swings - www.clevelandswings.org
Get Hep Swing - www.gethepswing.com

Rochester NY
Rochester Swing Dance Network - www.ggw.org/~rsdn
Lindy Jam - http://www.lindyjam.com

Ithaca
Ithaca Swing Dance Network - http://www.dance-ithaca.org

New York, NY
New York Swing Dance Society - www.nysds.org/nysds/

Chicago
Windyhop - www.windyhop.org

Man, you got money!

Swingland Calendar International - www.mycalendar.net/webcal1/asp1/vc.asp?CALID=10309
Herrang Dance Camp - www.herrang.com
Swing in U.K. - http://www.DanceYourselfDizzy.com

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Swing Idol May 26th!

Swing Idol has returned! On May 26th the swing community will gather to share an evening of performances, food and social dancing (and celebrate Swing Idol Dave's 80th birthday!) - here is your opportunity to impress your swing dancing friends with all of your non-swing talents! Interested performers and audience members should contact Dave Watson - tickets for the show are $7 in advance/$10 at the door and are on sale at the OSDS Friday night dance.