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Balboa Nights - with live band and DJ!
Wednesday 8 January 8.15pm - 11.00pm
The Southgate Club, 17 Chase Side, N14 5BP (Entrance is in Crown Lane)
What a treat we have for you at BALBOA NIGHTS on the 8th January 2025 at the Southgate Club.
A live band headed up by Jessica Radcliffe (ex Alan Mendham Orchestra and London Dance Orchestra) on vocals and Al Nicholls (Aisha Khan and Sister Suzie) on sax, with the solid foundation of Dave Piggott and friends
What a superb way to start 2025.
The doors open and dancing from 7.30pm.
£10 admission plus buy the band a beer at the bar. Thirsty work this live performing .
BALBOA is a dance that originated on the busy dance hall floors in California during the late1920s and throughout the 1930s.
These dance halls sprang up as the railroad advanced along the West Coast with a branch culminating at the Balboa Peninsula. Everyone was doing Foxtrot, but after the great war new dances such as the Black Bottom, Ragtime and the Charleston became popular. However there was no room on the dance floor and the dance hall proprietors made rules and put signs up saying 'No breaking at the chest' and 'No Turns'. So they recreated the fast moves from the Charleston with these constraints in mind. Hence the creation of Balboa :-)
It later evolved into BAL-SWING when the East Coast Lindy Hoppers, such as Dean Collins and Frankie Manning, influenced the dance when they came to Hollywood
We're a small dance community and this new event is an even smaller group of improver dancers looking to practice and share the joy of the dance to existing and those yet to experience BALBOA.
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The Southgate Club, 17 Chase Side, N14 5BP (Entrance is in Crown Lane)
