Courtyard Caper - October

October 18th, 2025

Location: Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE), MP21102 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

Time: 1-5pm (3 hours of instruction; 1 hour of breaks and practice time built in)

Topic: Solo Jazz

Course Description: Coming soon.

Dress Code: Please wear athletic clothing, as we will be moving around and doing floor work (no skirts, please).

Prerequisites: This is an all-levels class.

Dance details coming soon!

Photo credit: Samantha Kunz Photography

Instructor Bio: Sarah Beth (SB) McLellan is a powerful and rooted-in-rhythm dancer, teacher, community organizer, and performer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. SB didn’t grow up dancing, but would spend hours going down Youtube rabbit holes watching Lindy Hop and solo vernacular jazz videos, convinced she’d never learn to move like that. When she stumbled upon a Lindy Hop community in 2015, she dove head-first into vernacular jazz and has never looked back. She co-founded Rapid Rhythms (2017), the vernacular jazz community in GR, where she teaches classes regularly and coaches the Rapid Rhythms Performance Team (with co-coach Scott Herdegen). 

Sarah Beth believes that movement is for everybody and every body. It’s her goal to help students lean into what makes their dancing unique to them. Students can expect classes that are heavy on “play time” to explore concepts, work on technique, and try new things with the tools they already have in their toolbox.