Calling all Social Dancers! JaSmix 2025 will take place in Rains Hacienda Commons on Saturday, August 16th!
*What is "JaSmix"?*
JaSmix ("Summer Jammix") is an annual community-run summer event featuring an evening full of dance workshops, followed by a Jammix-style social dance party -- and it's all totally free! Everyone is welcome, so come out and dance with us!
From 3-9PM, we'll have private lessons and awesome workshops taught by experienced community members to help you level up your dancing and work on your technique, connection, and expression!
Then, from 9PM until midnight, we'll be playing some amazing music for you to practice and enjoy everything that you learned!
Here is the full schedule for this year's event:
3:00PM-5:00PM - Private Lessons with Timmie - signup required!
5:00PM-6:00PM - "Creating Swing connection" - with Jason
6:00PM-7:00PM - "Power Moves" - with Chris and Anna
7:00PM-8:00PM - "Intermediate Waltz: Musicality" with Cameron and Rocky
8:00PM-9:00PM - "Beginning Fusion Foundations" with Gem
9:00PM-Midnight - SOCIAL DANCE PARTY!!! DJed by Timmie =)
Questions or concerns? Feel free to email
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Mark your calendars, invite your friends, and we'll see you all on August 16th!
--Timmie Wong
JaSmix organizer, 2016-2025
FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS BELOW
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1:1 Private Lessons with Timmie Wong (3-5PM)
Timmie Wong (that's me!) has been social dancing as part of the Stanford dance community for 15 years. This year Timmie will be teaching private lessons with a specialization in cross-step and rotary waltz, his most experienced and accomplished dances. Be sure to register in advance to be eligible for being assigned a private lesson slot!
Preregistration is required for private lessons. Please register at
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"Creating Swing Connection" by Jason Fang (5-6PM)
Whether in Lindy-Hop, Hustle, West Coast Swing, Fusion, or any of the other dances that start from a simple handhold, there's an otherwise-invisible principle that generates your elasticity, momentum, directionality, and creativity. In this class, you'll learn the unifying principle between the different Swing dances as it evolved over the years, level-up your partnering abilities and spatial awareness, and take home a new lens by which to think about fancy moves, and properly dissect some of the movements you might want to steal -- err...learn.
Prerequisites: None, but the class will be tailored toward dancers who already have some experience with swing and Lindy Hop
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"Power Moves" - by Chris Ling and Anna Zeng (6-7PM)
What do you do when the big hit comes and the beat drops? Come learn some examples of powerful moves to match the powerful moments in the music, to inspire you to create your own — as well as the floorcraft to do it safely.
Prerequisites: Be comfortable with dances and basic patterns from Social Dance 1 (Waltz, Swing, etc.)
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"Intermediate Rotary Waltz: Musicality" by Cameron Schaeffer and Rocky Aikens (7-8PM)
Looking for ways to make each of your dances more unique? In this class we'll give you the tools you need to predict changes in the energy of the music you're dancing to. Then, we'll show you how to match those changes by modifying patterns you already know! We'll practice dissecting the different layers of sound in a song and reflecting each of them in our movement. By the end, you’ll be crafting dances that are more expressive, dynamic, and musically connected.
Prerequisites: Minimum requirement of at least 3 months of rotary waltz + comfortable with grapevine and shadow position.
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"Beginning Fusion Foundations" by Gem Chien
Come explore a new way to combine your dance moves into a new and exciting dance experience! Fusion dancing is a contemporary lead-follow dance that blends Tango, WCS, Smooth Lindy, and Blues together. In this class, we'll discuss lead/follow connection, extension/compression, and frame. With this foundation, we'll apply the techniques to explore ways to play with the music, add musicality to your movements, and improvise a partner dance style for any song that happens to be playing in the background!
Prerequisites: Social Dance 1 + one class {Social 2, Social 3, Living Traditions, History of Waltz} or equivalent experience
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Directions and Parking
Rains Hacienda Commons:
https://goo.gl/maps/jgHBiJmfHHfrv8Gn7 - Unenforced parking spaces are available during the event time in the lot adjacent to Hacienda Commons.
For any additional questions, please contact via email at
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