Stadtl Shuffle 25. – 27. 4. 2025
What to expect
Come join us for a delightful weekend in a walkable city full of cafés, early 20th century architecture and people with their hearts open!
Three nights, each with a different flavour. During the day, choose between immersion in balboa classes or non-dancing activities led by our community members. Balance dance, social interactions and rest in any way your heart desires.
If you’re fond of small and cozy events where connections seem to flow more easily, we’ll be happy to have you!
Values of our event
Building a community of care
As balboa dancers, we already share the same interests and practices. By bringing care into the mix, we’re learning to build a more honest, caring community – locally and as a whole.
Thanks to welcoming guests from different cities and contexts, we can get inspired and learn what makes a dance community strong – reaching back to the relationships we foster in day-to-day life.
Peer to peer learning
By a way of immersion in an open-level group, we’re polishing the skill of learning something new in every class, no matter the material or experience of others.
By listening to and caring for our dance partners, we’re empowering others in the community to become stonger dancers – together.
Safe space to explore
We do our best to create a prejudice-free environment, where balboa can serve as a space for play, self-discovery and connecting with others.
We do not tolerate hasassement of any kind and will have a safe space team ready to assist you whenever needed.
Please read our Code of Conduct before registration.
Love for balboa and swing
We cherish the dance, deeply enjoy swing music and are curious to see where the scene is heading.
We recognize that balboa is a part of tradition of jazz dance, black art form originating in Harlem, New York.
We thrive to be respectful guests in a culture that doesn’t belong to us.
Classes
All classes will be held in English and will take place in Swing Wings studio.
>1 year of experience: full pass
Join us in a 6 hour long immersion, getting inspired by a delighful couple of facilitators as well as each other! You might expect discussions, video-watching or other non-dancing activities as a part of those 6 hours. This way, you’ll be able to thoroughly get to know our teachers and dig deep into their dance philosophy.
Mirroring the experience many of us share in our local communities, we’ll learn together in one open-level group (minimal requirements apply). To join the group, you need more than 1 year of experience with balboa. You should be comfortable with basics in pure bal and bal-swing: up-hold, down-hold, come around, lollies, swivels, toss-out. However, the classes will be suitable for much more experienced dancers as well!
< 1 year of experience: beginner+ track
If you started your balboa adventure less than a year ago, beginner+ track is just the thing for you. You still need some experience with balboa: you should know at least one of the balboa basics and some of the moves. This track is not meant for complete beginners.
To welcome you to the world of balboa festivals, the teachers will spend 2 hours with you on Friday evening. This way, you will have the whole weekend to try the new ideas on the dancefloor and will also be able to join the daytime communal activities during the weekend!
Note: you’ll need to register the beginner+ track as an addition to your party pass. The beginner+ track will only open if enough people register in time, so don’t leave it up to the last minute 🙂
Teachers
Our teachers are Giedre & Camille, both living, teaching and co-creating a wonderful balboa community in Berlin, Germany.
About Giedre and Camille:
Giedre‘s journey into the world of swing dance began with Lindy Hop back in early 2000s. After traveling around the world learning and teaching swing dance Giedre established her base in Europe’s party capital, Berlin, where she became an active member of a vibrant Balboa dance community. An educator by nature and a historian by the degree, Giedre is currently researching women’s role in early Jazz music and dance history. In her classes one should expect a fair amount of musicality, fun technical tips and lots of good ideas on improvisation for both leaders and followers.
Camille is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. He teaches Balboa from his experience of body awareness, movement experimentation and improvisation. Expect a less conventional approach to learning couple dance, with balance and visualisation techniques, emphasising understanding your own body to open your connection to the ground, to your partner and to the music.
Photo credit for Giedre&Camille: Elena Policky
Why we like them: Full of fresh ideas, Camille and Giedre value rhythm as well as human connection. Play seems to be a big part of their dance and partnership – and who wouldn’t benefit from taking themselves a bit less seriously? 🙂
With this playful mindset, they recently placed second in Open Strictly at European Balboa Festival in Toulouse, and how radiant they looked! Maybe you’d wish to follow their dancing adventures on Instagram?
Parties
Friday warm-up
A warm welcome to Brno in one of the coziest venues around!
Expect to hear a journey through our DJs’ favourite tunes in both digital and analog format: DJ Peter will invite a guest to trade one set each on vinyls, culminating in a shared set, battle format.
The rest of the night we’ll entrust to an experienced guest DJ, balancing the vinyls and completing a well-rounded Friday experience.
Saturday celebration
You’ll barely want to step out of the dancefloor during the main night!
Our band for the night Radio King Quartet will come from Prague, bringing the most trusted balboa melodies along.
The DJs theme: the best of balboa classics for a soirée full of shuffling on the most beautiful wooden floors of Moravian Gallery.
Possible afterparty with more unorthodox swing tunes to let your balboa run wild: TBA.
About Radio King Quartet:
Led by David Maxa (drums) with Petr Pospíšil (vibraphone), Jakub Šafr (piano) and Martin Voříšek (clarinet), they’re masters of authentic 1930s Benny Goodman sound and among the most experienced swing musicians of Czechia.
Why we like them: What a scrumptious vintage rhythm they produce! Whether pleasantly fast or delightfully slow, their music invites you to dance and rarely takes no for an answer.
Although a fairly fresh band in the scene, David, who’s also the drummer for Ondřej Havelka and His Melody Makers, brought together true masters in swing and it shows- Vibraphone, a not-so-common instrument these days but legendary under the hands of Lionel Hampton, is a beautiful addition – and you already know its player Petr from Tryin’-To-Be-Good Men, the main band of our previous editions.
Sunday early chill
in one of our favourite cafés
Whether you’ll stay in Brno for a bit or need to be tucked in your own bed by Sunday night, come share some more dances during late afternoon!
Specific venue yet to be announced. We’re dreaming of tasty snacks, refreshing lemonades and conversations under the sun of late spring.
A place to meet some of our local DJs, enjoy a few thematic sets, share your farewell hugs and see what the evening brings.
Venues
Moravian Gallery
A baroque palace turned into a set of tiny balboa ballrooms for Friday and Saturday night!
During the day, you can pop in for brunch or modern art.
If you hold dear memories of Little Balboa Weekend from pre-pandemic times, this venue will be a beautiful throwback.
Swing Wings studio
Built in 1913 for an insurance company, turned into hospital storage during socialism.
Now hosting our dance space, our jazz musician friends’ music school as well as accomodation for refugees.
Coffee and cakes will be prepared by our fellow dancers for you to enjoy during your classes.
Daytime activities for party pass holders
What is community if not sharing with others? Let us invite you to spend time with people creating our balboa scene!
Come have a coffee in someone’s favourite café, share a walk around one’s favourite modernist buildings, go vintage shopping or maybe dig in a communal garden. Whatever we like to do during weekends, we’d love to bring you along!
We’ll announce specific activities and how you can join when the time comes. If your schedule allows it, you can also join as a full pass holder.
Prices and discounts
| Pass | What’s included | Price |
|---|---|---|
| FULL PASS | 6 hours of classes with Giedre & Camille + 3 parties including Saturday with Radio King Quartet. | 3300 CZK (~135 EUR) |
| FULLPASS: Swing Wings discount | Reduced price for a full pass. Applicable if you’ve taken a balboa course at Swing Wings in school years 23/24 or 24/25 (be sure to use the same e-mail address). | 2900 CZK |
|
BEGINNER+ TRACK |
2 hours of classes with Giedre & Camille on Friday, available as an addition to your party pass (needs to be registered separately). We will confirm your beginner+ track when enough people register for it. | 800 CZK (~35 EUR) |
| PARTY PASS |
3 parties including Saturday with Radio King Quartet + daytime activities hosted by our community members. | 1400 CZK (~60 EUR) |
| PARTY PASS: groups of 10 | 20% discount on your party pass. Applicable if you register as a group of 10 people (price per person). One person needs to register and pay for the whole group. | 1120 CZK (~48 EUR) |
| SINGLE PARTY ENTRY | If you’re in town and want to pop in for a single party, we’ll have tickets available at a later date unless the event is sold out. Prices to be announced. | TBA |
Terms and conditions:
- Registration and waiting list
We recommend that you register for your fullpass with a partner. Those who sign up solo are waiting on the waiting list to be paired with a participant of the other role.
- Pass transfers
We are not able to refund the ticket price. If you cannot attend, please offer your pass in the Facebook event or local groups. In the event of a change of participant, please contact us at michaela@swingwings.cz. Using the same address, we will be happy to confirm whether the seller actually owns the given ticket.
- Code of Conduct
Stadtl Shuffle is dedicated to providing a safe and comfortable event experience for everyone, therefore all attendees, instructors, staff, and volunteers are required to comply with the Code of Conduct. Organizers will enforce this code throughout the event. We are expecting cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody. If you behave inappropriately, you may be asked to leave with no refund.
Registratioin
Have a question or concern? Reach Míša at michaela@swingwings.cz.