Balboa in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire
Come and learn Balboa where you’ll dance to the great classics from the swing era as well as more modern tunes. It’s fun, sociable and easy to learn. No partner or dance experience necessary as we’ll start from the basics and soon have you social dancing and impressing your friends.
Regular teachers are Gill, Graham & Julia
Tel. 01242 506 279 or Mobile 079 80 80 15 22 or email dancebalboa@balboanation.com
What We Do
We are an active bunch who just love the Balboa dance, and want to share this passion. We run classes weekly, dances monthly, and workshops throughout the year. See our workhop for full details.
Balboa Classes
We teach Balboa in Cheltenham, and in Powick Worcestershire, from the very basics to intermediate level. See our Classes page for more information.
Live Music and Dances
We have a full programme of monthly dances, many with great live bands for you to enjoy, bringing you the best of authentic 1920's30's and 40's style music. See our dance listing or our events page.
Cotswold Balboa Festival
The 2009 COTSWOLD BALBOA FESTIVAL was on 7th and 8th March 2009 Anne-Helene and Bernard were teaching. with Christi Guest and Didier Dumet. .
Full details see our workshop page.
Guest Teachers with the BALBOA BUNCH have included:
Dan Guest (London UK)
Jessica Lennartsson (Sweden)
Christi Guest (Edinburgh UK)
Didier Dumet (Nice France)
Benoit Jegou (Toulouse France)
Andy Spits (Lyon France) Cotswold Balboa Festival 22 nd & 23 rd March 2008
Martin and Tracy King (Ledbury UK)
Zsolt Radnai (Hungary) Cotswold Balboa Festival 2008
Moe Sakan (Japan) Cotswold Balboa Festival 2008
Anne-Helene and Bernard (Toulouse France) Balboa Festival 7 th & 8 th March 2009
Mel and Jo Calanglang (London UK)
Live Music is Special - Bands with BALBOA BUNCH include
Gentlemen of Jive
JB Jazz and Blues
Debbie Arthurs, Nick Gill and Norman Field
Debbier Arthurs hot 4 - Cotswold Balboa Festival 2008
Gypsy Fire (Acoustic Guitar Jazz) 22nd
Swing Museum (Hot club quartet)
Bridget Big Girls Blues
Sid Greenfield Quartet, with Spats Langham, Andy Woods, Danny Blade.
Fat Boy Swing