Old School Jazz Dance meets Old School Hip Hop Dance
Mainz, September 12&13th 2025
Swing and Hip Hop have a lot in common: historical, musical, cultural and dance wise.. Both dances offer a lot more possibilities for self expression, improvisation and community than most other dances. How well those two dances and music styles can inspire and enrich each shows this video:
In our first festival in southwest Germany we are bringing the Swing and the Hip Hop Dance communities together and are looking forward to have a blast with you and get crazy!
The event focusses on solo dancing but gives you ideas that you can take into partner dancing.
We invite you
- to get to know historical, cultural and musical roots, similarities as well as differences in Swing and Hip Hop
- experience specialties in Hip Hop and Swing Dance
- integrate Hip Hop and Swing moves into your preferred dance style
- to gain more confidence in self expression in dance
- to gain more experience in Jam Circles
You can expect Parties, History Talk, a dance battle with prize money eas well as workshops with
- Minn Vo (Hip Hop for Swing dancers)
- Alexandre Mc Cormack (Swing for Hip Hop dancers, Jam Circle Culture, Musicality&Self Expression)
- Marcus Scherf (Hip Hop for Swingtänzer:innen)
- Fabio Schmidt (Breakdance Movesfor Beginners)
- 75€ regular
- 95€ who can pay more
- limited number of reduced tickets for 50€
Price for Party Pass
- 30€ regular
- 40€ who can pay more
- reduced number of tickets for 20€
Program
(last updated: March 23rd, 2025)
Friday, September 12th 2025
Saturday, September 13th 2025
Sunday, September 14th 2025:
Free Tea Dance of the Mainz Swing association in a gym close to Mainz central station. Lindy Hop Taster at 2pm, dancing starting at 3pm. More information here
If you have any questions contact:swop@swinginwiesbaden.de
Workshops
What is special about swing music and the culture around it? Which swing dances should you know about? Alexandre will give you answers and show you some moves from swing dance and examples of how you can include them into Hip Hop dance.
teacher: Alexandre Mc Cormack
Workshop in english
What should you know about Hip Hop music and the culture around it? Which Hip Hop dances should you know about? You will learn that and some Hip Hop steps and examples of how to include them into your Swing dance.
teachers: Minn Vo and Marcus Scherf
Workshop in german and english
In Swing and Hip Hop there is steps that you can learn and practice forever. But only through your interpretation, your style you acquire the step and make it to something special and maybe even new. Learn to listen to the music, express yourself through dancing and therefore have more fun.
teachers: Alexandre Mc Cormack
Workshop in english
Where are Jam Circles coming from? Which role do they play in Swing and Hip Hop? Which Jam Circles exist in Hip Hop and Swing? How do you start one and are there rules to follow? Alexandre will answer these questions together with you and most importantly: lets you experience how it feels to dance in one yourself.
Teachers
Since Marcus is 19 he has been dancing Hip Hop and quickly got into teaching the dance. He enjoys passing on the joy in Hip Hop dancing – for a while in up to 20 groups per week. He enjoyed most to learn directly from the masters. Since 2017 he has his own dance school in Mainz in which he exclusively teaches Hip Hop for different age groups and levels.
Fabio has been dancing for 30 years and teaching dance for 20 years. He grew up with Break Dance and evolved with Capoeira and Hip Hop. Fabio experienced the high tide of breakdance in Germany until it got olympic in 2024. He still lives the Breakdance and is happy to share that lifestyle and pass on the dance to you.
DJs
Since almost two decades Lenz is a solid part of the DJ and club scene in the Rhein-Main area. With a strong focus on technical Djing, scratches and a good track selection he has established as a resident in several clubs. DJ Lenz is the perfect DJ to combine both worlds. His heart beats for 90s Hip Hop with Jazz samples, he has supported Hip Hop artists like Jeru the Damaja as well as understands how to get a mainstream crowd going with fun music.
Since her early youth R’n’B, Hip Hop and Swing were a big part of Trudes music taste. Since 2011 she dances swing and enlarged her music choice mainly in the Berlin scene. Since 2023 she djs herself and organizes swing events like the regular Swing-social in the bar club Schick in Mainz. She enjoys putting on Swing, Rhythm and Blues, Blues and Soul and is overstepping genres, f.e. towards Hip Hop.
DJ Il Bacino keeps the dancefloor drowded because as a dancer he knows what dancers want. He accidentally came to swing dancing. To Jazz he came through 90s Hip Hop. Il Bacino plays Swing, Jazz and Rhythm and Blues. In regular DJ workshops he gives insights about the relation of dancers and DJs – from floor to booth and back.
your swinginwiesbaden e. V. Team
