ZZ Summer Camp

Saturday 28.6. (starting with lunch) - Saturday 5.7. 2025 (ending with breakfast)
Rychta Morašice near Litomyšl
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The sun is shining, swing music is in the air and dancing is everywhere….

That’s how we all remember it, and that’s how we all want to start the summer. Like every year. This year we will see you again in Rychta Morašice, near Litomyšl.
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON 21.3. AT 10:00

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Accommodation and food – Rychta Morašice u Litomyšle

Rychta offers three accommodation options:
– Room with bunk beds (5-9L) – some rooms have their own bathrooms, others have bathrooms shared in the corridor
– Dormitory, or summer sleeping in the former granary – capacity 30L (normal beds, NOT bunk beds) divided into 2 floors.
– Your own tent – the place for tents is a meadow lined with tujis right next to Rychta. Showers and toilets are available on the technical ground floor, which has an entrance right from the tent site.

Due to the limited number of beds and type of rooms, it will not be possible to provide the type of accommodation and privacy required by everyone.
If you need privacy, consider booking accommodation somewhere nearby and commuting to Rychta. In this case, you can of course dine with us at Rychta.
We will also not be able to provide accommodation for those not going to lessons for the week, or for family members, chaperones and visitors. Thank you for your understanding.

Full board is provided at Rychta for the entire stay:
– buffet breakfast
– lunch = soup + main meal (we offer 2 options – with and without meat)
– dinner = main meal WITHOUT meat
Last year’s menu can be viewed HERE
Food is cooked fresh in the local large capacity kitchen. The owner of Rychta tries to accommodate us with various individual requirements (allergies etc), but it is not possible to provide too many different types of diets. Please let us know in the registration form if you have any restrictions and we will let you know if we can accommodate them.

 

PROGRAMME AND LESSONS

SWING and much more fun!

This year’s program for swingers will include a total of 23 hours of lessons (main Lindy Hop lessons + 2 blocks of optional thematic lessons). Not only foreign lecturers will come, but you will also meet most of the lecturers from our team. In addition to the lessons, you can enjoy (not only) swing dancing, but also traditional disco / retro dance, themed dance (costume is not compulsory), practicals, slam poetry / stand up evening, flea market, etc.

At the final dance session you can also perform some of the choreography you learn at the camp, or you can admire the performances of others.

Those who would like to push their dance boundaries a little further can try participating in the Mix & Match Pro-Am competition. The format of this competition is that you dance with a random partner to music chosen by the DJ. In the first rounds (called prelims) you always rotate, i.e. you dance to three songs (fast, medium, slow tempo) each time with a different partner. In the prelims, leaders and followers are judged separately.
We select a few leaders and followers to dance with our tutors in the finals (hence the name Pro-Am).
You can win a free pass to one of our international dance festivals.

Due to low interest in past years, we will not be offering a stepper program at Summer Camp.

The main lessons are focused on Lindy Hop.
In the registration form you will find the description of the levels of the main lessons. You will choose a level based on the description and your dance experience (with Lindy Hop).
The level you will ultimately be placed in will be decided at the split audition at the beginning of camp.
If you are applying with a partner and want to be in the same level, you will be judged as a couple at the audition. So it won’t happen that you will be split into different levels because of the audition.

Changing partners in all paired lessons (main and thematic) is compulsory.

All participants choose 2 different thematic lessons for the whole duration of the camp (topics cannot be combined). Click HERE for a graphic overview of all the thematic lessons.
These are different topics that don’t fit into regular lessons. When registering as a couple for the main lessons, each couple can choose different themed lessons. For paired lessons, we will always confirm places according to the current number of leaders and followers.

 

THEMATIC LESSONS – block 1 (6×90 min)

Balboa I/A (Instructors: Maria & Luis)
Suitablefor those who havebeen dancing Balboa for at least 3 years.

Balboa INT (Instructors: Nina & Anthony)
Suitablefor those who have been dancing Balboa for 1-2 years.

Showcase (Instructors: Kamča & Štěpán P.)
Showcase lessons focus on performance and related topics. But they will help anyone who would like to feel more confident dancing in front of people…which is actually all the time. We will discuss styling, expression, how to dance to fast and slow tempos, and we will also look at orientation in music and space. We’ll discuss all of this with a few well-known choreographies. We will then combine everything we have learned into one performance that we will present to others at the end of the camp. Suitable for ADV and ADV+ level.

Simple flash moves (Instructors: Klára&Dejv)
Ideal for those of you who have been dancing for a shorter period of time (1-2 years) and want to start adding elements to your repertoire that will make you shine. Because even the “cool” stuff can be simple. We’ll build on basic figures so you’ll have the opportunity to repeat them. You’ll start to create your own signature moves from your favourite moves.

Jazz (Lecturer: Anička DD)
A program for maintaining and developing physical fitness and dance skills. The class consists of “Luigi’s warm-up”, stretching and strengthening, jazz isolations, jumps and spins. The lesson focuses on jazz, ends with a short variation and is open to all levels. Suitable for all regardless of the level of the main lessons.

 

THEMATIC LESSONS – block 2 (6×60 min)

Jammin’ (Instructors: Míša and Štěpán J.)
The dance floor is in full swing, the band is on a roll, the mood is full of anticipation and with the first bars it is clear that something is about to happen. My friend next door went straight into the jam. You’re hesitating, wanting and not wanting. But it’s time to take a chance and get jamming. We’ll teach you when to get in the jam, when to get out and how to show off to make it worth it! Expect fast tempos (and sweaty t-shirts), shred combos, and a mindset that can help you in the jam and in competition. Jamming just belongs at Lindy Hop!
Suitable for for Lindy Hopper in ADV and ADV+ level, please sign up in pairs – we expect minimal rotation, some lessons will be purely non-rotating.

Slow Bal (Teachers: Maria & Luis)
Suitablefor those who have been dancing Balboa for at least 1 year.

St. Louis Shag (Lecturers: Štěpán P. and Kamča / ZZ)
Discover this cheerful and playful dance! Suitable for those who want to start with Shag, i.e. have little or no previous experience with this dance.
Suitable for all regardless of the level of the main lessons.

LA Style Lindy Hop (Instructors: Nina & Anthony)
How to dance in Hollywood?
Suitable for Lindy Hoppers at the I/A level and above.

Followers Styling (Instructor: Klara)
A whole week of (not only) styling for followers! You don’t get a chance to try and experience the stylings during the regular one-day workshops. But LTS offers ideal conditions! In the morning you learn something and in the evening at the dance floor you can use it right away. The next day we reinforce what worked, tweak what didn’t work and you can go at it again in the evening!
Suitable for all followers with a minimum dance experience of 2 years (or less, but with “solid” swingout).

And for the early birds we have the option of morning yoga with Oli or stretching.
– Yoga with a teacher who is also a dancer is a great preparation for a long day of dancing. Bring your own yoga mat!
– Stretching – if the weather is nice we will be exercising outside, so have appropriate clothing and shoes.

Afternoon and evening activities

In addition to dance lessons, there are plenty of other activities and entertainment waiting for you. If there is anything missing from the programme or you would like to organise something yourself, please contact us.

Attention! Theme nights are NOT mandatory with costume! But where else to go to have fun with everything than at a summer camp for adults, right?!

And therefore it is almost impossible to participate in everything and it is also necessary to rest sometimes. But then again, that FOMO…. 🙂

LECTORS AND TEAM

This year Luis and Maria from Mallorca will come with us again! Last year your feedback was so ultra-positive that they were the obvious choice. They are simply divine not only in dance but also in humanity. You can look forward to their lessons of Lindy Hop, Balboa and this year also Slowball.

The next pair of lecturers from abroad will be the equally great and always positive Nina and Anthony from Switzerland. You could see them in the finals of competitions not only in Lindy Hop and Balboa, but also in shag. The specialty they will bring us this year will be LA style Lindy Hop.

Morning yoga will be led by Oli again.

And of course you can look forward to Zig-Zag lecturers – Klara, Míša, Kamča, Anička DD, Kuba, Štěpán J., Štěpán P., Dejv

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