Swing dancing?

[SwngDncr]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me...is there a swing dancing scene in Cork at all? I know Dublin has some places to go, but I'm not going to just go there everytime I want to swing dance...that's just not going to work for me. I'm sure I won't be able to do it as much as I do here at home (once a week with my college's club) but if there is somewhere not too far, either from UCC or the Leeside Apartments...that would totally make my day and my stay. I guess if there isn't anything it'll be greater incentive to join the million and one other activitites that looked interesting.

[SwngDncr]

c'mon...surely someone knows if there is any place to swing dance in the Cork area?

[pablo]

Wasn't dancing in Ireland banned in the early 1980's due to the amount of people injuring themselves on the dance floor ?

[SwngDncr]

That's the first I'd heard..its possible I supposed...but if it remained so, I doubt that the Dublin Swing Kids site that I found would exist

[false]

what is swing ? Are the people who do this dance called "swingers" ? There is an irish site you can check out http://www.irish-swingers.com/

[SwngDncr]

Umm...I think sometimes the dancers are called swingers, but the site you included.... that's a different type of swinger than what I'm referring to. Swing Dancing is something that originated in the US in the 20s and 30s...its a dance that takes many forms- Charleston, Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Shag, Jive, etc....the one site related to it in Ireland that I've found so far is http://gofree.indigo.ie/~swingit/