Woodside Swing provides both community and education for Spokane-area swing dancers

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Put on your dancin’ shoes and get swingin’!

Like many sports, dance can present several barriers to access, especially for adults. For example, most ballerinas start out at a very young age, which means the form is especially unwelcoming to newcomers in stiff, full-grown bodies.

Swing dancing, however, welcomes those of all ages and skill levels. Conceived alongside the rise of jazz music, swing dancing originated in African American communities in 1920s Harlem, New York. From its very conception, swing dancing was meant to be social, heavily

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