Flying Solo with Jo Hoffberg

Cleveland Balboa Club is proud to present FLYING SOLO WITH JO HOFFBERG in CLEVELAND June 2026.

40 dancers. 13 hours. One weekend that’s going to change how you move. Flying Solo is a weekend intensive for dancers who sense that there’s something bigger underneath the steps they’ve been collecting — and they’re right.

This isn’t figure-by-figure memorization. It’s learning how movement fits together: thinking about jazz steps as rhythms (instead of moves) in order to train more efficiently, how to scaffold your own learning so new material actually sticks, and how to build a practice that makes you better when nobody’s watching. We’ll use swing music and vernacular jazz shapes, but we’ll also dance to r&b, disco, funk, and house — because it all comes from the same tradition, and if you can dance, you can dance to any of it.

You’ll work on rhythm, bounce, body awareness, arms, musicality, and improvisation – broken into layers you can actually practice on your own. By Sunday, you won’t just know more things. You’ll understand how your body works, how to chunk information instead of drowning in it, and how to close the gap between the dancer you are right now and the dancer you want to be.

Jo Hoffberg has run Flying Solo in San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boulder, NYC, Berlin, Munich, and Wrocław. 92% of students say they’d do it again. 42% say it was worth more than they paid. Multiple editions have sold out. Dancers regularly travel from other cities to attend.

Open to All Levels (aimed at Intermediate and up). Brave beginners welcome. Register Here!

One of many fun and community focused dance events brought to you by the Cleveland Balboa Club. Want more dance goodness in your life? Check out other upcoming events, including weekly lessons and Cleveland Swing Thing weekend dance workshops.