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Our teachers offer private lessons!
Our teachers offer private lessons!
For inquiries about group classes, please email harrisonburgswing@gmail.com. We offer group classes, including line dances, as well as private lessons and partner-dance choreography.
Private lessons are great for developing your own technique or focusing on particular skills you want to improve! Learn from our instructors who have over 20 years of dance experience between them.
Lessons fees payable directly to the instructor(s) before the lesson starts
Each instructor sets their own fee
Lessons usually last 1 hour
You can hire 1 instructor or a partner pair
Students must find a location for the lesson
We recommend the Harrisonburg Dance Cooperative. Contact them for rental rates.
Our instructors are based in Harrisonburg, VA. If the lesson is elsewhere, they may expect travel reimbursement in addition to the lesson fee.
Lessons can be alone or you can bring a partner!
You can split the cost with your partner!
If you know what you want to work on, tell your instructor beforehand!
They can plan the lesson or develop exercises to help you
Gray Smiley
Gray Smiley
Primary Lead
Wedding Choreography
Proficiencies:
Lindy hop (beginner to intermediate-advanced)
Charleston (beginner to intermediate)
Solo jazz (beginner to intermediate)
General musicality (beginner to advanced)
Nil Kıncak
Nil Kıncak
Primary Follow
Proficiencies:
Lindy hop (beginner to intermediate-advanced)
Charleston (beginner to intermediate)
Solo jazz (beginner)
Gray Smiley is a co-founder of and Director of Operations at Harrisonburg Swing. He is also a doctoral student in the James Madison University School of Music. Gray's been dancing since 2021 and particularly loves fast dances like Charleston and up-tempo Lindy hop. He teaches at Harrisonburg Swing and Swing Cville, regularly attends dance workshops around the United States, and was a finalist in the Lindyfest 2025 Newcomer and Swing Aus 2025 Begintermediate competitions. In addition to general dance vocabulary, his teaching emphasizes musicality, precise control of balance, clear tactile communication, and exact movement timing.
Nil is a co-founder of Harrisonburg Swing and is on its executive board. She first started dancing at Case Western Reserve University four years ago. She teaches at Swing Cville and by day is a biomedical engineer at Merck. She regularly attends dance workshops around the United States and internationally and was invited to judge Any Given Child's 2026 Adult Prom dance contest. Her teaching emphasizes connection, tension and compression, flow & momentum, turns, follower styling, and variations.
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