Here are links to local and national dance calendars. Start dancing and soon you'll have friends all over the country!
Century Ballroom
Ron Bolin Dance Calendar (once there, scroll down for calendar)
Seattle Dance Calendar
Educated Feet — Dance instruction on Bainbridge Island with Sheila Phillips
Left Foot Boogie — Dance instruction in Swing, Salsa and Waltz with veteran Living Traditions instructor Jodi Fleischman
Lykes To Dance — Line dancing, Zydeco and Salsa with MaryLee Lykes in Shoreline
Northwest Dance Network — Quality social dance instruction and dance events
HepCat Productions — Swing dance classes with former American Lindy Hop champion Chris Chapman
HepJen.com — Former Seattle-ite turned San Francisco-ite HepJen's short list of Seattle Swing dances
Savoy Swing — Non-profit dedicated to Lindyhop and Balboa dances and instruction
Seattle Swing Dance Club — West Coast Swing dances, classes and workshops
Michelle Badion — Tango and Salsa
SalsaBeatSeattle
— Salsa calendar
Sonny Newman's Dance Hall
Tango Calendar
Gatorboy Productions — Zydeco dance instruction with Sean Donovan
Sean Donovan’s Seattle ZEN Calendar — sign up for his weekly e-mail calendar
Cascade Zydeco, Portland — Dances, workshops, an excellent annual Zydeco dance camp and coordinators of the Zydeco stage at the Safeway Blues Fest in Portland
Gary Hayman’s National Zyde-zine — No longer being maintained, but still has a lot of info on Zydeco
Northwest Cajun Zydeco — Excellent Seattle Zydeco dance organizers.
Seattle Cajun Zydeco Events Calendar
Waltz Etcetera — Monday night dances in north Seattle.
Waltz Eclectic — Sunday brunch dances in Portland
Friday Night Waltz — Waltzing in Alameda/San Francisco
Social Dance at Stanford University — Dancing in Palo Alto, including Waltz Week and Waltz Weekend
Atlanta
Boston
Connecticut
Philadelphia, PA
Washington, DC Dance
Washington, DC Folk Dance
Safeway Blues Festival, Portland, Oregon — tons of Blues, and a Zydeco stage hosted by Cascade Zydeco
Folklife Festival, Seattle — Every kind of music for every kind of taste
Jazzfest, New Orleans, Louisiana — Better music per square inch than anywhere else, and great food, too
What they were saying — slang of the 1920s
ocal.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm
History
streetswing.com/histmain/z3ecs1.htm — "East-Coast Swing" vs. "Lindy/Jitterbug"
mixedpickles.org/20cdance.html — early 20th Century dance
mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html — Jazz-age dancing
Fun video with vintage style Swing
Ondřej Havelka — Beat me, daddy
Balboa
Alex & Julia dance Balboa 2006 Russia
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers play Vernon and Irene Castle
Castle Walk
Sugar Sullivan and Lindy Hop
Sugar Sullivan dancing at the Savoy Ballroom
20's Charleston
1920's The Charleston
30's Lindy Hop
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the Big Apple
40's Lindy Dance
Lindy dance from the movie "Hellapoppin'" (1941)
Astaire and Rogers
Ginger Rogers — Charleston Scene from Roxie Hart (1942)
Swing Time — Rogers & Astaire
Too Hot to Handle — Astaire & Rogers
Smooth Lindy
Bill Haley, Rip It Up
Also watch the high school dance scene in "It's a Wonderful Life."