Idea

Form a group and enjoy the advantages.

Since the beginning of this adventure as a swing festival, one of the aims of barSWINGona has been to promote the encounter of lindy hop communities from different regions and Barcelona Swing dancers.

In this spirit, barSWINGona encourages dancers from the same community (meaning a city and its surroundings) to attend barSWINGona festival as a barSWINGgroup by giving them a special treat including discounts and gifts (see the details in the sections below).

What are the advantages you get as barSWINGgroup ?
If you qualify as barSWINGgroup then you'll enjoy the following advantages:
  • a fee discount to ALL group members (check the PRICES section).
  • a complimentary gift to the Group leader (check the "Group leader duties" section below).

 

Terms

Register, qualify and act as the barSWINGgroup from your swing community.
What is barSWINGgroup ?
To qualify as a barSWINGgroup you must be a group of lindy hoppers from the same community meaning:
  1. You have to be at least 4 leaders and 4 followers (not necessarily partners or registering to the same tracks and levels).
  2. You must be from the same community: we consider a community is not a region or a country but it is restricted to a city and its surroundings.
  3. You must be foreigner, meaning that you are coming from a city out of Catalonia.
  4. All of you must register for a FULL pass or higher. Workshops, one-day or party passes do not qualify.
  5. All member registrations must be ACCEPTED. Being pre-registered or in a waiting list is NOT an accepted registration.
A group may loose its status if does not have enough members during the final registration process at the beginning of the festival.
What does a barSWINGgroup have to do ?
If you believe that you qualify as a barSWINGgroup and you want to be so this is what the group should do:

  • Choose a Group NAME.
  • Designate a Group LEADER.
  • Each member of the group must indicate both in the registration from when she/he registers.
  • Prepare a Group outfit for the Saturday Swing Communities Party (and you can optionally add some sort of short show presentation)
The Group LEADER should take care of the issues indicated below.
What are the duties of the Group LEADER ?
The barSWINGgroup LEADER must take care of the following:
  1. Prepare a list with all groups members and send it to barswingona@gmail.com For each member it must indicate:
    • name,
    • pass type,
    • track,
    • level and
    • partner.
  2. Check that your group is listed in the Groups list in this section of the festival website.
  3. Make sure that all group members include the group info in their registration forms.
  4. Make sure that all group members pay the registration deposit on time.
  5. Take care of the registration and payment for all members at the registration desk in Barcelona at the beginning of the festival.
  6. Encourage the group members to prepare a nice Group outfit for the Saturday Swing party.
  7. Collect suggestions and complaints from the group members and send them to barswingona@gmail.com
In appreciation to all this work, barSWINGgroup LEADER will get the following:
  1. the registration fee discount as any other member (check the PRICES section).
  2. an invitation to the barSWINGona diner.
  3. a nice complimentary souvenir from this barSWINGona edition.

 

barSWINGona'11 Groups

This is the list of groups registered so far.

Here we'll post the barSWINGgroups registered so far. If you belong to one of this communities you should consider joining then and indicate the name of the group and group leader in your registration form.

City Coutry Group Name Group Leader
Andorra la Vella ANDORRA Ball&Swing Andorra Marta Sementé
Athens GREECE Athinaswing Venia ASLANIDOU
Copenhagen DENMARK Copenhagen team Andreas Ohrg
Madrid SPAIN Grupo de Madrid Jorge Benito
Moscow RUSSIA Moscow Hoppers Rita Vinakour
Valencia SPAIN SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS  
Viena AUSTRIA vienna@barswingona Milo Tesselaar
Wuppertal GERMANY Swingjugend Carmen Bosch

 

Previous barSWINGroups

 
City   Group Name Group Leader
Andorra     Rosa Naudí
Basel   Tickletoe hepcats  
Bordeaux   TAP SWING and CO Audrey Caudan
Castellon   Castellon Baila Valentin
Donosti   DonostiSwing Ana Minguez
Edimburgh   Edimburros  Thom Scott-Phillips 
Freiburg   SwingIn Freiburg Stefan Klingner
Gothenborg   West Coast Jitterbug  Håkan Ivarsson 
Grenoble   Grenoble Swing Romain Feuillette
Istambul   Istanbul Lindy Hoppers Banu Birecikligil
Kiev   Ukranian hoppers Viacheslav Ianchuk
London   Revival Rowena
Madrid   Grupo de Madrid Jorge Benito
Montpellier   Swing Jammerz  
Moscow   Moscow hoppers Rita Vinakour
Munchen   Swing and the City  Christine von Scheid 

Porto

  

Lindy Hop Porto

 Abeth Farag
St. Petersburg   St. Petersburg hop  

Stockholm

   Stockholm Saga Blomberg
Tampere   Swing Team Tampere  Mia Helin
Toulouse   dragibus Fleur Saillofest 
Valencia   Swingar Alex i Rosa
Valencia   ValenciaLindyHop Encarni i Javi 
Vitoria   Swingverguenzas  
Zurich/Kloten   DanceEasyTeam Irene Burgherr