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About the Melbourne Lindy Exchange
November 22-24, 2002

The first Melbourne Lindy Exchange was held in November 2001. Melbourne hosted around 85 visitors, with 60 making their way from 6 states of Australia, and an amazing 25 internationals from 10 countries. The MLX 2001 workshop series was sold out around a week after being first announced, with 125 people attending classes. Around 350 people attended the MLX Ball, and countless others attended the 10 social events over the weekend.

MLX 2002 promises to be even bigger and better. Our aim for MLX 2002 is to provide the ultimate weekend for any Lindy Hop dancer, and to showcase one of the biggest, most dynamic and exciting Lindy communities in the world. Melbourne.

We'll do this by combining the very best social dancing events we can imagine with an exciting set of workshop classes that will inspire you to get on the floor.

Read on for some key dates. If you're curious about the MLX video or if
you'd like to tell others about what MLX 2001 was like, you might like to
download a short Quicktime video clip taken from the MLX 2001 video:


MLX 2001 Video Clip
(1min 32 sec, 2.4Mb)
QuickTime format


MLX 2002 Brochures

Help spread the word about MLX 2002. The brochures are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and are set up to be printed on A4 paper (2 sides) and folded. Download both pages:


Key Dates for MLX 2002

August 22
- Tickets available
- Accommodation registrations open
November 1
- Deadline for Accommodation
November 21
- Early check in & reception
November 22
- Friday night dance
November 23-24
- Workshops
November 23
- MLX Ball

 

About Lindy Hop

Lindy Hop swing dancing communities are thriving in cities across Australasia.  From Perth to Sydney, Hobart to Brisbane, Lismore to Singapore, Auckland to Adelaide, and in many other cities you can find people discovering one of the most exciting social dances of the modern era.

Originating in the ballrooms of Harlem, Lindy Hop swing dancing was given its name by legendary swing dancer "Shorty" George Snowden after the famous pilot Charles Lindbergh when he made his thirty-three hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean to France on May 20, 1927.

Snowden had just won the first Harvest Moon Ball Contest in Central Park in New York, and was asked by a newspaper reporter what style the couple were doing. Shorty thought for a second, and replied "the Lindy Hop... We flying just like Lindy did!" The newspaper reporter did an article on the contest and described what he saw as the "Lindy Hop."