Dance
Music
Community
Swing Culture in Geneva
Music
Community
Swing Culture in Geneva
For a few years now, Backbeat has been sharing its enthusiasm for swing and jazz dances.
Joining Backbeat means joining a curious and passionate community, driven by the desire to explore jazz, its music, its dances and the African-American culture that gave birth to them.
It also means joining a group that is committed to creating spaces for emancipation, meeting and mutual recognition for everyone.
Dances born in the African-American community, during the first half of the 20th century.
Dances that, like jazz, celebrate individual expression and the strength of collectives.
Dances that invite to meet in the difference.
Dances that express an optimism and joy without naïveté: the joy of resistance to oppression.
Popular dances; liberating dances.
Couple dances (the Charleston, the breakaway, the lindy hop, …); individual dances (the black bottom, the charleston, …)
