Frequently asked questions

You can find our pricing here.

See our course levels.

Wear comfortable clothes that are suitable for moving around.

Shoes can be non-marking indoor sports shoes flat dance shoes. In the first dancing classes you can also dance in the socks. 

As you progress in your dancing, we recommend to get flat and slippery shoes for rock’n’swing dances.

Our members favourite shoes:

• Bleyer 7530
• Bleyer 7520
• Bloch dance sneakers
• Diamant dance shoes

As a membership benefit, you can get 10% discount on the shoes from our partners. 

You can join as a member by creating an account in myClub. We will send you a membership fee within a month of registration. 

Let us know that you want to cancel your membership in the following way:

• Open your myClub profile https://comets.myclub.fi/flow/profile/edit
• Scroll to end of the page
• Select Yes, for I want to terminate my membership and I don’t have unpaid invoices from lessons.

The board of Comets processes membership cancellation requests about once a month.

Only members can register for our dance courses and other activities. 

You can register without or with a partner to our partner dance courses. We use partner rotation in our classes, therefore you don’t a dance partner. 

In partner dancing there’s usually a leader and a follower. Anyone can be a leader, anyone can be a follower.

Usually a leader initiates a movement and a follower completes it. These roles are in no way gender specific, in fact many people do both, and dancing both roles is often referred as switching. 

You will be asked to chose to either lead or follow when you register to a partner dance course. Or you if you are fine with both roles you can choose ‘Both roles are okay’. Depending on the balance of leaders and followers, you might end up leading or following.

We encourage everyone to try both roles at some point, as it’ll greatly improve your dancing and broaden your understanding of leading and following.

The beginners courses (level 1) always start from scratch. You don’t need any previous dancing experience.

All of our courses can be found in myClub under the ‘Registration’ tab. 

We let people without a partner from the queue in the registration order so that there are about equal number of followers and leaders (±2). Therefore the myClub might show that the course is full, but is not until [TÄYNNÄ] is added to the course name.

You will get a notification and a bill, when you get a spot in the course.

You can’t cancel a binding registration. Work trip, moving, motivation or being otherwise busy are not acceptable reasons to try to cancel course registration. 

In case of long-term illness, the course bill can be removed, if you get ill before course starts.

If you get ill during the course and you miss more than half of the classes, you can get 50% discount on the bill.

If you get ill after the midpoint of the course, no discounts will be given. 

Members belonging to discount groups can receive a € 10 discount on the price of courses coached by club coaches.

Students, pensioners and the unemployed are entitled to discounts.

Send your discount certificate to the e-mail address alennus@comets.fi.

We don’t accept sport benefit as payment method until further notice.

Courses are currently operating normally without restrictions. Currently we do not require a covid-19 certificate in our courses and events. We are constantly monitoring the situation and the decisions of the authorities. If the situation worsens, we will implement the required measures, i.e. informing about hygiene, restricting dance partners to a single partner or rotation within a small group, and possible breaks between classes. The covid-19 certificate will be introduced if the city of Helsinki requires it. Classes may have to be canceled if the situation worsens significantly and restrictions given by the authorities come into force. The club does not have the possibility to pay back course fees, especially if half of the course has already been taken when a possible closure occurs.