Copenhagen Slow Balboa Festival 2025

Feb 28th to March 2nd

The Copenhagen Ministry of Balboa is proud to announce our second Copenhagen Slow Balboa Festival with fantastic international teachers tba later.

Venue

The entire festival, both parties and classes will happen at Støberiet, Blågaards Plads 5, 2200 Kbh N. Placed in the midst of Copenhagen with great restaurants and cozy shopping areas all around us.

Bands

The Bands will be announced during the fall – and there will be live bands, both for the Friday and Saturday parties. If we sell well enough we hope to get a 3. band Sunday evening.

Classes and levels

We will have 2 levels, one for beginners and the other, intermediate is for dancers which have prior Slow Balboa workshop or weekly class experience.

The teachers/organizers may ask you to move up or down a level if they believe you have selected or been placed at a wrong level.

  1. Beginners: You have no or perhaps a little prior Slow Balboa experience. Maybe you taken one or more tasters in Slow Balboa. Maybe you danced regular Balboa and/or perhaps Lindy, but at least you have taken some kinds of partner dance classes.

    Saturday, 14:00-17:00 incl. 2 short breaks
    Sunday, 10:00-13:00 incl. 2 short breaks

  2. Intermediate: You know the basics of Slow Balboa and dance comfortably if the music is not too slow (corresponds to having taken weekly Slow Balboa classes in Copenhagen with Anni & Gašper in fall 2024, or with Jon and Zhan earlier. If not from Copenhagen you have taken weekly classes in Slow Balboa somewhere else).

    Saturday, 10:00-13:00 incl. 2 short breaks
    Sunday, 14:00-17:00 incl. 2 short breaks

Evening activities and parties

Friday night

To accommodate new Slow Balboa dancers the music during evening parties will not be only Slow Balboa music. We aim at 50 %  Slow Balboa music and the rest will be a mix of regular Balboa and Lindy music.

    • 19-20 Intro taster in Slow Balboa
    • 20 – DJ until band start
    • Live band
    • DJ until venue closes at 01:00

Saturday night

To accommodate new Slow Balboa dancers the music during evening parties will not be only Slow Balboa music. We aim at 50 % Slow Balboa music and the rest will be a mix of regular Balboa and Lindy music.

    • 19-20 intro taster Slow Balboa
    • 20 – DJ until band start
    • DJ until venue closes at 01:00

Sunday Evening

Sunday evening we’ll have a tea dance. Unfortunately venue does not have a kitchen, but there are restaurants in the vicinity that does sell food.

    • 18-21 Tea dance. If we sell well enough we’ll get a 3. band.

Prices

    • Early bird until December 1st 2024! so book now
    • Participating at one level including party pass Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 1.250 DKK or 168 Euro
    • Participating at two levels including party pass Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 1.750 DKK or 235 Euro
    • Party pass for Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 500 DKK or 67 Euro
    • Party ticket for one night (at the door only): 200 DKK

Location

New signup form and procedure!

Follow the registration link below and look for lines beginning with CSBF – Copenhagen Slow Balboa Festival

Registration https://shop.balboaswing.dk/

Terms & Conditions

Payments

  • Payment must be made within 3 days of receiving acceptance email and payment instructions to secure your registration. If we don’t receive your full payment in due time your reserved spot may be given to another person.
  • Please take care of all transfer costs and conversion cost if paying via bank transfer.
  • Unfortunately we cannot refund your purchased class pass for any reason, but you may transfer your class pass to someone else with the same dance role (leader or follower). If you do so, let us know by email to whom you sold your class pass so we can update the registration.

Liability

  • All participants are attending the event at their own risk
  • The Ministry of Balboa do not assume any liability or responsibility for incidents and/or injuries and loss or damage of any personal belongings during the classes or socials.
  • Classes with very few participants may be cancelled

Other information

It may take us a few days to get back to you, not least because we need to ensure balance between leaders and followers. But if you get nervous about your registration, or if you have questions, you are always welcome to reach out to us via e-mail at dans@balboaswing.dk