West coast swing group classes and social dance on Thursdays! Join us for Learn & Play Thursdays! THE WHAT: Leveled group classes followed by a social dance.
Austin Westie Academy is a West Coast Swing venue offering classes and social dancing in the Austin area on Thursday evenings. Our aim is to provide an inviting and fun environment for dancers of all experience levels to learn and dance West Coast Swing! See homepage on our website for instructor schedule: https://www.austinwestieacademy.com/
THE WHEN: Thursday evenings
- 7:45-8:30 Crash Course
08/20/2026
Last week we said goodbye 👋(for now!) to a mainstay in the Austin/San Antonio community 😭😭😭. Good luck 🍀 on all of your future adventures 🏔️ Michael Hassey. We’ll miss dancing 💃 with you… and all of your handstands!!! 🤸♂️
Week 3 of Patterns & Concepts with Kristen Wallace this week at AWA!
07/23/2026
WEEK 3 of our new Crash Course curriculum is here!!!! Get to class! 💙
07/16/2026
WEEK 2 of our new Crash Course curriculum is here!!!! Keep learning friends! 💙
Come learn from Kristen Wallace tonight at AWA!
07/09/2026
TONIIIIIIGHT 🌴😎 WEEK 1 of our new Crash Course curriculum is here!!!! Join us tonight and see what all that WCS hype is about 💙✨
06/11/2026
Welcome to summer in Texas! 😎☀️
Looks like the AC is acting up a bit at Uptown. Prepare for temps 🌡️ that are higher than usual at the studio tonight 🥵. As usual, AWA provides water and some fans. If you already feel warm under normal circumstances though, come prepared with an extra shirt 👕 or sweat rag, a personal fan🪭, and some extra water 💧.
We can’t wait to see y’all tonight! 🧸💙✨
Don’t forget to dance responsibly and take care of yourselves! 💃🥰
Gratitude post inspired by some lovely messages in our suggestion box this past week:)
CORRECTION: Reposting after fixing date typos.
You'd be a FOOL to miss out on AWA in April! For any jokesters out there, glad we aren't hosting at dance on 4/1 itself :) Thankful for all of our instructors!
02/03/2026
We are very thankful to be celebrating 3 years 🪄 of serving the Austin WCS community 🥰. We love that more and more local dancers 💃 are learning their non-primary or non-traditional role 🔄. Wanna show off those skills? Grab ✌️ partners! We are collaborating with Swing Crush 💘 for a 3-for-all fun competition 💪!
The 3 winners 🥇 will each get entrance into the intensive of their choice at Swing Crush. 😱🎉
To participate in the fun competition on 2/5, at least 1 member of every team of 3 must be unpointed per WSDC or compete in the Newcomer/Novice division in their primary role.
See y’all this Thursday!!! 💙✨
| 7:45pm - 11pm |