Come to TLX 2025!
Toronto's Lindy Hop scene was founded in October,1995.
October, 2025 is the 30th anniversary, and this weekend is our celebration of that! Toronto's last Lindy Exchange was 15 years ago, and we are definitely due for another one.
A Lindy Exchange Weekend, with a great line-up of dances and live bands, plus beginner friendly dance lessons. More details tba soon.
Put it in your calendar, you don't want to miss this!
FRIDAY night: St Barnabas Hall 7-11pm (big excellent dance floor, very high ceiling, stage for the band, good ventilation)
Friday Late Night, venue tba
SATURDAY: Dovercourt House 1st Floor, noon to 2:30am (big dance floor, licensed bar, AC, the main floor of Dovercourt House, the traditional home of Toronto's Saturday Night Swing for 25 years)
SUNDAY: St Wenceslaus Hall, 2pm to 10:30pm (large excellent hall, the biggest dance floor of the weekend, a stage for the band, free parking, supper at the hall just after 6pm, further details tba)
All venues are three minutes walk or less from nearest subway station on the Bloor subway line.
Arriving early on Friday? Consider having supper at one of the very nearby "GreekTown" restaurants on "The Danforth."
Details coming soon at the Swing Toronto website:
https://swingtoronto.com
Facebook calendar of all Swing Toronto and Waltz
Toronto events:
https://www.facebook.com/SwingTorontoPage/events
ABOUT:
(photos thru the years via Toronto Lindy Hop Reunion Website
https://lindyhopreunion.com/gallery/)
THE WEEKEND!
There will be several live band dances, and more, Friday evening through Sunday Sunday evening, celebrating Lindy Hop and also other Swing Dances including Balboa and Collegiate Shag. Details and themes tba. It will probably sell out, and will be at venues conveniently located on the subway line.
THE BEGINNING OF OUR SCENE:
Toronto's Lindy Hop scene was the first Canadian Lindy Hop scene of the Lindy Hop revival. It was started by Simon Threlkeld & Margaret Tan in October, 1995, with a large and successful Lindy Hop Weekend at a large dance studio on Spadina Ave, Toronto. There has been a continuous Lindy Hop scene in Toronto ever since.
Margaret & Simon organized a series of weekend workshops from October 1995 to June 1996 with the world's most highly regarded Lindy Hop teachers of that time, including the great Frankie Manning, and Swedish Lindy Hoppers, including members of the Rhythm Hot Shots, generally regarded as the best Lindy Hop performance dancers of that time. Margaret and Simon also started Toronto and Canada's first Lindy Hop group of the revival, Toronto Lindy Hoppers (of which Swing Toronto is the successor group), Canada's first Lindy Hop demo/performance group of the revival (also called Toronto Lindy Hoppers), and Canada's first weekly Lindy Hop classes and regular dances.
Simon & Margaret had a lot of help with with starting the scene in October 1995, including from Gary Dafoe & Ramona Zhang, leading people in the Toronto Swing Dance Society (TSDS), including Mona Paris, Gero, Susie Padro, Michael Wagner and others, Peter Renzland, George Randolph (of The Randolph Academy), Max Nii-Noi and others.
Gary & Ramona started a Lindy Hop school in October 1995 with Margaret & Simon's help. Lisa Jacobs also started teaching Lindy Hop locally, and in the winter of 1996 Chachi returned to Toronto from the US (where he'd learned Lindy Hop), and taught Lindy Hop here or a while, before moving to Stockholm, Sweden to study Lindy Hop and other dancing.
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