Save the Fast Dance is back for a fourth year of Balboa and Shag in January 2027!
New year, but our recipe stays the same: 2 sets of main teachers, 2 sets of taster class teachers, 4 socials, live bands, and all the fast music we can offer to dance away those January blues.
The parties kick off Thursday with a pre-party and keep going through Friday, Saturday and Sunday, wrapped around two packed days of classes. Dive into Balboa, Collegiate Shag, or mix and match to grow your fast dancing repertoire.
14-17 January 2027
Tickets
Tickets will go on sale on 1st October 2026 at 19:00 (UK time). Full passes (socials and lessons) cost £150, and social only passes will cost £60.
Tickets will go on sale via the DanceCloud online platform. See DanceCloud's own information about how this works. Note: when requesting tickets on DanceCloud, you are requesting all of the tickets you ask for, so DanceCloud will only make you an offer of tickets if it can offer you all of them, i.e. it will treat requests for multiple tickets as a group booking.
We believe that everyone should have access to opportunities to dance and learn, no matter your financial situation. To that end, we are offering some discounted passes to this event for those who otherwise would be unable to afford to attend. The code ACCESSTOCLASS will reduce the full pass to £120, and the code ACCESSTOPARTY will reduce the social pass to £50. Please email welfare@cambridgeswingdance.com with any questions on these passes.
T-shirts
This edition's festival shirt features a design dedicated to Artie Shaw's "Back Bay Shuffle", created especially for us by artist and local dancer Gena Hudkova. Gena brought her unique style and her connection to the song into this piece.
"The design is based on a main feeling I was getting from the song which was spinning/swirling. After listening to the song quite a few times, I still couldn't shake this feeling off so decided to go with it. Visual representation for that is naturally a spiral. Continuing with the clean simple forms, lines and bright colour combinations this year's swirly T-Shirt design was born."
T-shirts can only be ordered through our online ticketing platform. To reduce waste, they will not be available for purchase during the festival weekend.
Venue
Most of the weekend will be held at Storey's Field Centre in Eddington on the outskirts of Cambridge (opening party on Thursday is at the Old Spring pub). There is free parking in the local park and ride facility, and buses go there regularly from the station and city centre
Safer Spaces Policy
We aim to be a welcoming, supportive and friendly organisation and to look after everyone at our festivals. Cambridge Swing Dance is signed up to the S.T.E.P.S code of conduct and related procedures. For more information on this, please read our safer spaces policy:
