Let’s Dance! What’s to see if you want to get down and Boogie!
18th Jul 2017
There will be music, there will be laughter, there will be fantastically fast foot-work, and of course there will be dancing! Dust off the cobwebs and get moovin' and groovin' at the Underbelly Festival. We've got a while bunch of dance events for all tastes, ages, abilites and availabilites!
If a vintage fling is your kinda thing we've got you sorted to twist the night away.
Swing Out
11 Sept | More Info
Step back in time to the heyday of the 20s-50s in your best victory rolls, Hawaiian shirt or flappers dress. The evening kicks off with a dance class (Lindy, Charleston or Jive) from your expert hosts SwingDance UK, before a live Swing band takes it away to keep you stompin', jumpin' and jivin' all evening!
Vintage Jitterbug Contest
28 Aug | More Info
Join us as we invite London’s top jitterbugs to show off and throw-down their best moves to be crowned the city’s top swing dancer. With live swing music from London’s finest musicians, all-night dancing and drinking, and culminating in the contest finale where anything goes…. Join us for a social dance or simply come down to cheer your on favourite couple and have a few drinks. Dress in your finest vintage threads, and bring your dancing shoes...
For a late night get down...
Club Briefs
19 Aug & 30 Sept | More Info
Get your dancing shoes on with cult cabaret hooligans and mischief makers Briefs in a late night romp of music, performance and mayhem - all inside Underbelly Festival’s stunning Spiegeltent. Marvel as the Briefs boys, joined by special guest performers, show off incredible circus, variety and burlesque - and show off some moves of your own!
A big disco for the little ones.
Monski Mouse’s Baby Disco Dance Hall
6 Aug - 24 Sept | More Info
This international hit, early childhood event lets parents and under fives loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos. London-based Australian DJ, Producer and Mum of two, Monski Mouse, has designed the Baby Disco Dance Hall as a super-fun session of dancing and play with your small person. Dress to impress disco style and get your disco-dancing-booties on! (that means you too Mum & Dad!)
Posted by Nicki