It was a lot of fun!
The recap video of our Swing Exchange weekend in August 2024 is here. Check out the impressions of this event in a short video.
Thank you to all the participants from all over Europe. It was very nice to network, dance together, learn and commemorate the young swing dancers who were persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Swing was and is a symbol of freedom and individuality. We look forward to our next events in Prague in November!
25.08.2024, 3:30 pm
United Evangelical Community Bremen-Neustadt, Krankenstraße 11
The swinging Agnamana Duo from Bremen will be playing at the Swing Exchange weekend tea dance on Sunday. It consists of saxophonist Gilles Biedozi and his son Mael on drums. They will be accompanied by Claudius Tölke on double bass.
Admission: free
The transnational project takes a comparative look at the Nazi persecution practices of the northwest German swing youth, the Czech potapki and the swing and jazz music scene in occupied Poland and develops multi-perspective, interdisciplinary and participatory mediation formats.
19:00: History Talk
A history talk with Czech swing dancers Zuzana Hypsova and Zdeněk Pilecky will take place before the concert at 7 pm. Zdeněk Pilecky danced in the 1993 feature film “Swing Kids” and later founded the swing and tap dance studio ZIG-ZAG in Prague. Zuzana Hypsova works as a therapist with Holocaust survivors. They talk about how they use Lindy Hop in their therapeutic work. The interview is in English.
20:00 Concert/Social Dance
The concert starts at 20:00 with Social Dance. Django Heinrich Reinhardt belongs to one of the most famous jazz families in Europe. As part of our Swing Exchange weekend, he will be playing with parts of his swing orchestra and musicians from the Bremen University of the Arts in the St. Pauli parish in Bremen’s Neustadt district.
Admission: free
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