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Sold out

The event is sold out! That is a very nice compliment of the European lindy hop community. THX However it means that we won’t be able to sell tickets at the entry. Sorry about it. There is one exception: participants with workshop pass can buy daily party passes at the entry.
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This year’s theme

Every year we have a specific topic that spice up our parties. This year we plan to make a bloodless Lindy hop REVOLUTION! We wanna have proper swing music in the radio, wooden floor in new buildings and dance parties every night! To protest against the current situation we will go out and start to dance on 28th October… and dance until we reach our goals!
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Cruising on the Danube

One the highlight of the event! At least one time the boat – where we have the parties – will leave the port and will cruise around. As the Danube cuts into two pieces our capital – to Buda and Pest – you can see many important monuments of the city with floodlight like the castle, Parliament, Gellért hill. Also the boat will cross many of the bridges of Budapest: from the roof of the boat you can see...
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Parties on the Európa boat

As in the previous years we will have the parties on the EUROPE boat! Perfect place for a memorable party! Imagine dancing while the boat cruising in front of the Hungarian Parliament. What about dancing on the roof while the boat is passing the old Chain Bridge – that is just over your head some meters. And having more dance floors with different music one step away? Partying until 4 or later in the morning? You get it all!

Contacting Lindy Shock

Posted 24 Jan 2012 in News

Before the dance camp back in October we have archived all account that was not confirmed. If you have such an account and have tried to contact us it did not succeeded.
Now we have loaded back all these accounts as well.

Lost & Found

Posted 20 Nov 2011 in News

Here you can see all the lost & found items we have.
If you recognise any of your stuff please write us on the registration interface and use the name of the photo (_DSC…)

We need you feedback!

Posted 07 Nov 2011 in News

Thx for participating our event!

Hope you had a great time and enjoyed every part of the event!
Every part? We are really interested what did you like and what would you change.

On the registration interface you can fill out our survey and tell us your opinion. Also you can suggest us which teacher should we invite again!

Also it worths to check out the registration interface to download your photo we shot during the check-in. We have found 4 unpaired photos. So if you cannot find your photo please contact us – we might have your photo somewhere :)

In the following weeks we upload the lost & found items’ photos to our web page so you can claim them.
In ~2 weeks we send out our next newsletter with the summary of your feedbacks.

Tasters and city tour on Friday

Posted 25 Oct 2011 in News

We will have 3 tasters on Friday.
- Mindaugas & Giedre: Take your favourite moves and make a fun mix. You will have a nice collection of new easy but fun moves to surprise your partner (Palaház)
- Olivier & Natasha: Slides (Európa boat)
- Pasha & Dasha: Trick your partner! Cool things to make your partner smile (Zsófia boat)
All tasters start at 19:00.
To participate the class you have to check-in first. Check-in starts at 17:00. Also you can check-in on Thursday at the pre party.

We also have a city tour starts at 13:00 from the boat. We probably have only one tour so it might be crowded :(

Schedule

Posted 20 Oct 2011 in News

Here you can download the booklet so you can check out the schedule!
Schedule to download
We have found out that you cannot open this document on Apple :( Here is an other version that works on Apple (however looks really rubbish). Sorry about it.
Schedule for Apple

Less than 2 weeks

Posted 18 Oct 2011 in News

One more accommodation option

Posted 13 Oct 2011 in News

Most of our accommodation option is sold out so no more cheap accommodation :(

As many of you are still looking for a place to stay we have contacted one more hostel – called Bakfark.
It is a youth hostel. During the year it is used by a school however will be empty at the time of Lindy Shock. 10 euros / night / person.
Check out our accommodation page for more information and the map about the location.

However we can go there only if they have at least 20 guests! So
- you can book this accommodation
- as soon we have 20 bookings we can accept your place

So hurry up!

Preparty with Steven Mitchell

Posted 12 Oct 2011 in News

Here are the details of the preparty!

Location of the party:
- HOTEL BARA***
- Hegyalja utca 34-36. Budapest 1118
- Bus stop where you have to get off: Mészáros utca (street)

Happens on 27th October between 21-02.
We will have check-in for Lindy Shock as well that will be open at 20.

Concert: Steven’s One-Nighters Band
Singing: Steven Mitchell

The members of the one-nighter band are leaders of the Hungarian classical jazz music, all of them are well experienced world-wide, and have participated in several concerts together with world stars:
Béla Szalóky – cornet: member of Benkó Dixieland Band, leader of Police Big Band, one of the most versatile and most qualified Hungarian jazz musician (www.szaloky.com)
Zoltán Mátrai – clarinet, saxophone: member of Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band, one of the most active musical partner of Steven on stage in 2010 (www.bohemragtime.com)
Tamás Kovács – trombone: member of Jazz Steps, also joins several other bands from time to time, qualified for the Hungarian jazz-trombone competition in 2007 (www.jazzstepsband.hu)
Tamás Ittzés – piano: leader of Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band, invited Steven as a star guest to sing with his band in 2010 (www.bohemragtime.com)
Zoltán Oláh – bass: plays in several bands, one of the most wanted classical jazz bass player (www.bassjazz.com)

In less than a month…

Posted 29 Sep 2011 in News

…we will meet!

Some news:

  • you can book meals on the registration interface
  • you can download your e-ticket from the registration interface (this is your ticket to enter the event)
  • soon we send out a newsletter summarizing all important news
  • we work hard on the check-in process. We will automatize it to a level that we can process 800 participant in the time frame we have. To make sure we will even make live stress tests :)
  • we have added some new teachers: Nejc & Anna, Milson Saidle and Jay & Carole
  • we have started working on an exchibition for you
  • soon we can announce the details of the Steven Mitchell preparty
  • we have some sponsors: Ljubljana Sweet Swing Festival (Slovenia), Prague Spring Swing Festival, Prague Swing XMas (Czech Republic), Rock That Swing Festival (Munich, Germany), Smokey Feet (Amsterdam, Netherland). Soon we add a page about these great camps! Winners of Lindy Shock competitions win free passes for these events!
  • Practically most of the accommodation we offer are full. Novotel és Császár hotel has some more rooms left. If you need cheap accommodation please contact us. In many of you are still looking for accommodation we can book one more youth hostel however that is not so close.

 

About the waiting lists:

  • most of the cancellations we have is coming from Intermediate followers and advanced plus followers. So these 2 waiting lists moving fast. It might happen that we can accept extra registrations from advanced plus followers.
  • other waiting list are stalled a bit :(

Challenges of organizing an event

Posted 20 Sep 2011 in News

Today one of the company we are working together has called us and told that they have a higher priority customer so the services are cancelled. Well, they have forgotten to tell us that they have such higher priority customers. However they believe that we are lucky and we should be thankful as they have informed us in time.
The service involved is accommodation. No participants are affected “just” some of our teachers and DJs. We did our best to provide them a good place so they can serve participants the best. If you are interested this is the Antique hostel.
In the prevouos week we have tried to cooperate with a company who can provide us bike renting. Based on our one week cooperation and our general experiences with local businesses we have postponed our plans to next year. So no organized bike renting. Sorry.

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