USU Big Band Swing Club Archives

Classes have started up again, and so has Swing Club! Lessons start at 7:00, as usual, but this semester, club will be held on Wednesday nights in HPER 102. As usual, the first two weeks are free, so bring a friend!

As a reminder, in case of bad weather, club will be held in the student center just west of the Sunburst Lounge. Otherwise, come and join us outside on the patio. Check your email the day of club if you're unsure about the location.

Classes may be over for the summer, but the swing club is still up and going. Join us at the usual time on Thursday nights at the patio between the TSC and University Inn for lessons and dancing.

Congratulations to the new 2008 Swing Club council members! Check out the Club Council page for details. If you're interested in applying for any of the remaining positions, talk to Rebecca.

It's finally here!! The Harlem Nights 2008 extravaganza! Starting from tonight at 5:00pm going almost non-stop 'til Sunday at 4:00am. This is clearly the largest Swing Dance event Cache Valley has ever seen. Go to the Harlem Nights 2008 homepage to find out more.

You may (or may not) have noticed that our main page has been given a face lift. We hope you like it. Don't forget that this Saturday is the first Saturday in February, so you know what THAT means... Dancing at ELITE HALL!!!! You can find directions and event details on the Elite Hall page.

Happy new year! We have lots of plans for this year. First, club is on Thursdays if you didn't catch the memo. It's still free this week, but will cost $10 for the semester. If you want a shirt, it's an additional $10.

Also, we finally have all of the Elite Hall Benefit Dance pictures in. Feel free to take a gander.

And lastly (but certainly not leastly), our Harlem Nights 2008 plans are coming along just fine. We have the new website up-to-date and ready for you to browse. The cost for the whole weekend is only $80. You really don't want to miss it!

You may or may not have noticed our new logo(s) at the top of the page. Nifty, eh? Also, five new picture pages have been added to the site! You can check them out here.

Now would be a good time to start thinking about attending our Harlem Nights 2008 taking place this coming February. You can find out more information here.

Secondly, we've added a few new accessories to the website. Feel free to explore and find out what they are.

Since this Friday is Fall Break at USU, the HPER building will be closed. Therefore, those of us who will still be around we will be wandering over to a corn maze! Meet in front of the HPER building at 7:00pm and we'll all car-pool over to the Heritage Center. If you're a club member, we'll pick up $2 of your entrance fee (that is, if you're with us when we pay to get in). You're in charge of the rest of the fee ($2 - $4, depending on group rates).

Secondly, Friday, October 26 is our Hallo-swing Dance!!! This is where we come to club all dressed up as spooks, ghosts, weirdos, christmas trees, etc. There will be competitions and prizes for the winners!!!

As you may or may not have noticed, the website has now been changed. Don't worry. It's for the better. There are a few bugs we're still working out and they'll be fixed as soon as we can figure out how. Feel free to explore the site and report any bugs or broken links to the webmaster.
Also, this site is best viewed with JavaScript enabled. If the border doesn't show, then this applies to you.

Tomorrow night at Elite Hall: LADIES NIGHT!! So ladies, join Jill "Rosebud" Sundberg at 7:00pm for a free Jazz lesson! Then follow it up at 8:00 with a $3, 3.5 hour bout of pure dancing (The guys will be showing up after 8:00).

Also, be sure to check out the Salt Lake Invitational which is taking place today and tomorrow.

Thirdly, next weekend is Rockin' In Rhythm at BYU: A whole day of dancing and workshops by nationally acclaimed Swing instructors.

Our website will be undergoing a major overhaul in the next couple days. It will be almost nothing like this current site, except all major addresses will remain. The site will, however, be prettier, more navigatable, and much, much cooler. Along with the facelift, we're going to be removing many of the Harlem Nights pictures. If you want them, get them while you can.

The parade was a hit! If you missed it, oh well... there's always next year. We'll have a lot of pictures to add to the website soon.

Also, the calendar page has been updated (fianlly). It now works remarkably well in both IE and Firefox, so go check it out.

Homecoming Week!!! Tonight we'll be painting the street from about ~9:30pm 'til ~11:30pm. Meet somewhere on 700 North (usually near the HPER building) and wear clothes you would have a paint fight in...

Secondly, We've got a position in the Homecoming parade this Saturday morning. More details to come. However, in lieu of the parade, the J-J-Jubilee will be slightly changed to accomodate those persons who wish to dance down Main Street. The Air-step workshop will be held at 2pm instead of in the morning.

Swing Team auditions will be September 15th at 11:00am in HPER 102. Click here for the information and guidelines sent to us by the instructors.

This just in: Jazzy J will be in town on September 22nd (that's a Saturday) to teach us some of the coolest stuff that ever happened in Swing dancing! More information can be found on the Events page.

We'd like to wish a warm HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our current website. It is now one year old! (hold for applause) I guess you'd like to know a few statistics we've collected in the past year (sorry about the cookies).

In that year, we've had:

4142 visits
17,809 pageviews (~4 views per visitor)
3758 unique visitors
visits from every continent (except Antarctica... stupid research stations...)
visits from 46 out of 50 US states and 43 out of 48 European countries (come on, Vermont and Luxembourg!)

These statistics aren't extremely spectacular, but they're not bad for a site that's not selling something, offering some sort of service, or offering free music downloads. Thank you for your continuing support!

We have "fixed" the calendar page so those using Firefox can view the calendar. The only problem is it does not load correctly on the first try (I'm working on that) but if you select a different month from the drop-down menu, it will generate the calendar.

Secondly, September 5th-8th is the Celebrate America Big Band show! Student night is on Wednesday the 5th. Click here for the official website (Careful, it's got sound).

Today marks the last official Swing Club of Summer 2007! Next week, plan on coming Fridays from 7-9:30pm in HPER 102. I know, Fridays are kind of a lame day to hold Swing Club, but that's all we could get with the building scheduling. Anyhoo, we are working on finding a better place/time to hold club dances. If you have any suggestions, feel free to email them to Ben (council page). In the meantime, see you Fridays!

Summer Swing Club schedule has been changed to Thursdays from 6-8pm in HPER 215. We're looking into finding places to congregate after the HPER building closes at 8. Stay tuned!

The website has undergone a few minor changes. Feel free to cruise around and see if you can tell what changes have been made. (hint: it is no longer the old school year.)

Well, the 2006 school year is over... and Swing will live on! Our new council members have been added to the council page. We're in for a great 2007-2008 school year!!

The Elite Hall Benefit Dance was a HIT! We packed that floor the whole night! I think Elite Hall will live on for a few more years. We REALLY need to do this more often! If you missed this dance, you can still make our regular (but definitely not more important) dances on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month.

It has been announced that this upcoming club dance (Thursday, March 29th) is our council elections for next year. Be sure to show up, meet the candidates, and cast your vote! Let Swing live on another year!

A site map has been added to the website. Also, we've added a dumb little crossword puzzle to the Miscellaneous page. It's not very intelligent, but it's kind of fun. You might even learn something to boot!

More pictures have been added to the Harlem Nights 2007 Pictures page. They're worth stopping by to take a gander. Secondly, plans are still underway for the Elite Hall Special Events (High School Dance and Benefit Dance). Don't forget to make an appearance and support Elite Hall.

We have a new upcoming event: High School Night at Elite Hall!
This will take place at thje regular place/time on Saturday, March 3rd, 2006 from 7:00-11:30pm. Lessons (from 7-8pm) will be free and the cost for the dance (8-11:30pm) will be $4. If you have a valid USU Swing Club ID card, entry is only $1! Don't miss out on this!

The Harlem Nights 2007 Pictures page is now up! Please note that it is a work in progress. Some people still have yet to finish sending in their pictures, so these pages are far from complete. You can find the link on the Media page.
Videos will be coming soon.

We'd lile to thank Ben and Jill Sundberg for their extraordinarily hard and fabulous work on putting together the most successful Harlem Nights Dance ever! Join us next year, same bat time, same bat channel for an even better event.
P.S. Pictures will be up soon on the Media page.

There has been a minor change in the workshop schedule:
STORYTIME WITH FRANKIE IS NOW IN HPER 215!! THERE WILL BE NO SOUL FOOD (sadly) DUE TO HPER REGULATIONS!!

In further news, we have the Hellzapoppin' schedule up. You can find it here

Harlem Nights is coming closer! The locations of all dances and workshops have been nailed down. Also, we have a tentative list of the workshop order. Things might change, depending on what the instructors want. This is going to be soooo cool! You do NOT want to miss it!

The Elite Hall Benefit Dance date has been changed from January 20th to April 21st. We now have more time to plan the event to be extra cool. Mark your calendars and come support Elite Hall. Until then, be sure to come to our regular Elite Hall dances, along with Harlem Nights. You can find information on all these events on the 'Events' page.

The individual events and pricing for Harlem Nights have been updated on the webpage. It's still not all figured out, but times, who's teaching, and price have been settled. Stay tuned for event locations and what will be taught during the workshops.

Happy New Year! We have now moved from the December Pre-pay price to the January Pre-pay price for Harlem Nights. Don't worry if you missed December pricing. This is still cheaper than paying at the door. Check out the Harlem Nights page (link is on the 'Events' page).

The Harlem Nights Pre-registration for December PayPal link is on the Harlem Nights page. If you are not a club member, just click the link and PayPal will show you how to pay for it. If you ARE a club member, email us and we'll send you the link to for the club discount ($70).

The Elite Hall Benefit Dance information has been added to the website. The dance will be held on January 20th, 2007. Be sure to come support Elite Hall and help keep it open! The webpage can be accessed through the Events page.

Pricing for the Harlem Nights events has been added. A PayPal link will be added as soon as we can we can work out a few bugs. Be sure to pre-register for the event as soon as you can!

Two new pages have been added. Because of the "blog" nature of the news posts and they don't get deleted, anything from too long ago will be transferred to the "old news" in the "Archives" page for those who are bored enough to read them.

If you missed the Swing Into Winter Workshops, you'd better repent and come to the Harlem Nights dance in February, because you totally missed out on a kickin' (sometimes literally) event. The workshops were well filled out and the dance at Elite Hall was something else. Also, we should recognize the three finalist couples from the October Madness! tournament: Ben and Jill Sundberg, Justen and Cory Hansen, and Jimmy and Holly Suisse... incidentally, all married couples. All three danced superbly, pulling out moves never previously seen in our scene. It turns out, though, that even though it was neck and neck and neck, somebody had to win. Jimmy and Holly barely pulled ahead and took first in the competition. Personally, I think it was because of the "limbo" move.

Directions to the Friday dance at the Golden Skillet have been added to the Places to Dance page. Now you won't be driving around wondering why there's a dance club in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. Also, we're nearing the end of the October Madness! tournament. We will be having the last few matches this coming Thursday before we have the Finals on Saturday at Elite Hall.

I guess that about wraps it up for Ron's Harvest Moon Lindy Showdown. For those of you who were unable to make it, give a huge congrats to our very own Isaac Ashby for winning the Pro-Am Lindy Hop tournament, Allan Ambrose for winning the Open Lindy Hop event, and Justen Hansen for totally ruling the floor in the Jack and Jill(?) competition. Go USU Swing Club!

The Halloween Dance was a success. For those who weren't there, too bad. You missed out. Also, pictures of the Homecoming proceedings have been added to the Media page.

Information for the Winter Workshops and the Halloween Dance have been added to the Events page. Go ahead and check them out. Also, the Harvest Moon Ball sponsored by Ron is this coming weekend. You can find the information on the Swing Utah Forums.

The October Madness! is continuing its rampage through the club. If you haven't been this month, it's well worth your while. We're having at least two competitions each week, small contests, prizes, and all sorts of just plain craziness.

We have been moved to a new server and are in the process of learning how to deal with different protocols and methods of updating our website. If you see this post, it means I successfully got it working. Fortunately, I believe our address will remain the same.

Saturday, October 7th meet at 10am in the Joann's parking Lot (~200 S Main). Wear either vintage or your club shirt. You do NOT want to miss the only time you'll ever get to dance down a mile of Main Street without the risk of becoming roadkill.

The Street painting was a big success. If you missed it and would like to see our masterpiece, it's been painted in front of the Military Science building.

The Harlem Nights Bash webpage has finally been added. It's a work in progress and will be updated as events finalize. Feel free to check it out. An official link will be added to the Events page soon. So 'til then, use the link provided in this post.

We get to paint 700 North with a cool design advertising Swing Club!
Date/time: Monday, Oct. 2nd at 10:00pm
Meet across the street from the HPER building and listen for Swing music. Wear WARM paintable clothes. We'll be painting, dancing, and basically having a blast.

We've received some more information about the Harlem Nights Bash! It's going to be even bigger and better this year. Mark the first part of February on your calendars because you DON'T want to miss it! We will be having three celebrity guest appearances. The Events page will be your primary source of information until the Harlem Nights page becomes available.

Team auditions were a hit. We're in for some rockin' performances this year! Teams with their respective (although not necessarily respectable) members will be found here. By the way... be sure to wish directors Justen Hansen and Jimmy Suisse a happy birthday.

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