Beantown is truly a special event. Everyone there was welcoming and friendly. I had many fun dances with people of all levels and enjoyed meeting dancers from all over the country and Canada. The instructors were all top notch and the variety of classes were interesting, exciting, and challenging in a good way. Overall, I was impressed with how thoughtfully planned and organized the event was. Mostly, it’s worth it to spend a week or weekend surrounded by others who share a love of this dance at an event that is so dedicated to facilitating that enthusiasm and helping us all to grow.

Beantown is my favorite Lindy Hop event of the year! Your dancing improves so much over the course of the camp, and you make so many new friends along the way!

Beantown is an amazing Lindy adventure. I send in a check and show up and everything is taken care of. I get to eat, sleep and dance with no worries for 7 days. What could be better than that?

This was my second Beantown experience and it was pure joy. I found myself overwhelmed by happiness and teared up every night I was n attendance. I feel like I had some big dance breakthroughs and pushed myself to challenge myself both physically, intellectually, socially, and emotionally. I danced with instructors, I joined a jam, I partied with strangers, and learned from some OGs. I couldn’t have had a much better experience! Thanks for hosting such an amazing event!

Thank you so, so much for making possible one of the most magical weeks of my life. I’m so grateful for the love and work that you have put in to create this community, which is so filled with love, and has made me feel so loved in a time when I needed it.

As a first-time camper, I have to say that I met many great people, improved my dancing, and had a great time. Staying on campus and being sealed off from the real world, where the music, dancing, and people are all that matters for a few days, made it feel like a true vacation.

Beantown exemplifies all the best parts of what Lindy Hop — the dance, culture, and community — are and should be. Thank you for making that happen.

Beantown is a non-negotiable “must attend” in my dance calendar!  Every year it just keeps getting better, too! I’ve attended 7 consecutive Beantown camps and I have no plans in stopping. The instructors, the classes, the panel discussions, and the student performances are all so valuable and give me so much to ponder and focus on throughout the year. Having elders like Barbara Billups, Sugar Sullivan, and this year David Butts is such a treat and an honor, as we get to hear their stories and in some cases learn classic choreography from them. Beantown has such as “special energy” (to borrow the phrase Gordon Webster said on the last night this year) that it’s really hard to put into words, so you kind of just have to go and experience it ; )

It’s my fourth Beantown, starting in 2018 as a super shy, brand-new dancer. (Had I started at a different, less welcoming event, I don’t know if I’d still be dancing today.) While Beantown has always been a highlight of my year, I reached a new depth of sheer euphoria this time around that I never knew possible. While Beantown may evolve slightly from year to year, in the most important ways, it stays the same. For me, this is remarkable, because it’s served as a benchmark and backdrop to see how I’ve changed and grown throughout the years in an incredibly meaningful way.

I just had a wonderful time. It was so exciting to be able to dance all day with people who love to dance! I learned so much and feel more connected to the Lindy community. Counting down the days until next year!