Swing Dance Courses

Autumn 2025

🎭 Roots and Rhythm Week with Vassia 🎭

Dance • Culture • Expression
📅 2 to 4 December 2025
🗺️ Luxembourg

We’re excited to welcome dancer, teacher, and researcher Vassia Panagiotou for a very special Roots and Rhythm Week this autumn! This is a unique opportunity to go beyond the usual class experience and dive into the rich cultural roots of jazz and swing dance.

And the best part?
🎁 It’s a bonus week included in your Autumn term – no extra cost!

🗓️ Weekly Evening Classes

Classes will follow our regular weekday structure to keep groups consistent and focused – except for Monday’s class.

Students will attend on the day of their regular class, allowing for level continuity and focused progression. Vassia will tailor the content to suit the group’s experience while introducing new insights and creative material that enriches both body and mind. Students of the Monday class are welcome to join the Thursday class. Classes during this week will take place from 19h00 to 21h30.

Each evening will include movement, rhythm work, improvisation, and cultural insight – designed to help you connect more deeply with the dance and the music.

🌍 Why a Roots and Rhythm Week?

Learning to dance is not just about steps – it’s also about understanding where the dance comes from, how it connects to the music, and how we can express ourselves through it.

This week is a chance to:

Deepen your dance through rhythm and culture
Gain new perspectives on the Swing Era
Explore improvisation and creativity
Be inspired, challenged, and connected

👤 About Vassia

Vassia Panagiotou is a Jazz Dance performer, educator and choreographer specialising in African American Vernacular Jazz and Lindy Hop.

Her love for the Jazz Dances has led her to an ongoing pursuit of delving into the history of Jazz culture. She studies original video clips, focusing on the legacy of the dancers in Harlem and the tradition of the female performance troupes in night clubs and theaters such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theatre (Chorus Lines).

To get a deeper understanding of the culture, she is also studying jazz music. She is taking tap dance classes with Thanos Daskalopoulos focusing on the musical, improvisational aspect of the art form as it was danced by the hoofers in Harlem. She regularly participates in Athens Tap Jams and studies Jazz improvisation with the guidance of Andreas Papagiannakopoulos.

She travels across Europe to teach, perform and compete. She has worked with many well established dancers in the community, including Marie N’Diaye who introduced her to the tradition of the chorus lines and encouraged her to have her own performance troupe in her hometown.

Vassia lives in Athens, is a co-founder of Rhythm Hoppers (an authentic swing dances school aiming to educate students about the swing music and dance culture), a leader of Rhythm Hoppers Chorus Line & Rhythm Hoppers performers and an organiser of the Athens Rhythm Hop Swing Dance festival.

Listen to her in the interview from “What a jazz podcast” with Elze Visnevskyte

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