Rolling Swing 2025 Breakfast Club: Dancing ‘Til Sunrise in France
West Coast Swing dancers at Rolling Swing 2025 Breakfast Club, smiling and celebrating another night of social dancing until sunrise.
What Is Breakfast Club?
If you’ve been around the West Coast Swing scene long enough, you know about Breakfast Club, the unofficial tradition for dancers who keep the party going until the ballroom shuts down and sometimes beyond. It’s where the true night owls and social dance survivors connect by sharing the floor, late-night laughter, and the sleepy smiles that only happen when the sun starts to rise outside a dimly lit ballroom.
For me, Breakfast Club is more than a tradition. It’s a personal ritual. Since 2015, I’ve closed down the ballroom every night of every West Coast Swing event I’ve attended. Whether it ends with one last dance or a late-night food run, Breakfast Club is my favorite reminder of why I love WCS: the music, the connections, and the shared joy of dancing long past midnight.
Rolling Swing Breakfast Club
The late-night social dancing at Rolling Swing in France has become one of my favorite parts of any dance weekend. From Thursday’s bar location through Sunday floor teardown, the most dedicated night owls closed down the ballroom, hobbled their way to breakfast, and proved once again why the WCS community feels like a warm plate of French eggs in the morning:
Thursday
🕓 Ballroom closed around: 1:00 a.m.
🎧 DJ: Unknown
📝 Notes:
Thursday night set the tone for everything that followed. French Westies love social dancing.
This night’s social was held across the street from the event hotel at the bar, La Cervoiserie Bron. I wasn’t brave enough to ask for a group picture so the first Breakfast Club photo of the weekend is with the fellow and honorary Americans.
Breakfast Club survivors at Rolling Swing 2025 Thursday night around 1:00 a.m. after kicking off a weekend of West Coast Swing social dancing.
Friday
🕓 Ballroom closed around: 5:30 a.m.
🎧 DJ: Unknown
📝 Notes: Friday night social was the first social dance held in the event hotel. For a Friday night, the dancing was incredible all night long.
Breakfast Club survivors at Rolling Swing 2025 Friday night around 5:30 AM. No one else got the “Yeah!” pose memo.
Saturday
🕓 Ballroom closed around: 6:00 a.m.
🎧 DJ: Unknown
📝 Notes: Saturday night was so fun. The amount of survivors below showcase how the night went.
Breakfast Club survivors at Rolling Swing 2025 Saturday night at 6:00 AM.
Sunday
🕓 Ballroom closed around: 12:00 a.m.
🎧 DJ: Unknown
📝 Notes: This is why you should always stay Sunday night. We danced until they kicked us off the last floor tiles.
Breakfast Club survivors at Rolling Swing 2025 Sunday night after 12:00 AM.
Reflections
My favorite thing about Breakfast Club is the people and Rolling Swing 2025 reminded me why this community feels like home, no matter where I am in the world or how little sleep we get. Here’s to the next sunrise dance and the friends who make it worth every yawn and sore limb.
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