Dances


Time & Location
Aug 26, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:50 PM
Wakefield, 570 North Avenue, Wakefield, MA 01880
About The Event
We are excited to have Heejung Jung who will be teaching at our monthly dance.
ABOUT:
Heejung was born and raised in Incheon, South Korea. From a young age, she started training in the hapkido, a highly eclectic Korean martial art. After training for more than 10 years, she set her sights on another kind of art, and joined a hip-hop dance team, eventually leading the crew and performing across the country. Later she experimented with lots of other styles of dance, and joined the booming Korean Lindy Hop scene where she both taught and competed.
Heejung moved to New York in 2008. It was there that she really first learned and fell in love with West Coast Swing, attending her first event after learning for just two weeks. After training intensively in West Coast Swing, she returned to Korea and co-founded Westie Korea, the longest running…