I feel like I should be writing "Hi mom and dad, having a great time at dance camp! Today I got a blue star in intermediate ribbon dancing." Seriously, it’s been an amazing time so far at the Herrang International Dance Camp in Sweden. Herrang is quite a special place with a strong sense of…
Category: Dancing / Music
Hey-ho, from Herrang
Just quick to post to say hi from Herrang Dance Camp in lovely Sweden. I’m here for the week of intensive dance classes, social dancing until the wee hours, and hanging out with an international community of lindy hoppers who converge here every year. So many amazing dancers in one camp-y space for a week!…
Off to Herrang, the Mecca of Lindy Hop
Above is a video of a dance jam at the Herrang Dance Camp from 2005. That’s where I’m headed tonight! My buddy Tomo and I are flying off to the Herrang International Dance Camp, a yearly gathering that brings together a 1,000 of the most die-hard lindy hop swing dancers from around the world to…
My birthday jam (video)
Click To Play My awesome friend Will posted this dimly lit footage of my birthday dance jam at our weekly lindy hop dance "Frim Fram." The dance jam is a traditional in the lindy hop and other social dance communities to celebrate birthdays, weddings, and other big events in people’s lives. The birthday boy/girl (or…
Nice article in Publishers Weekly on Frankie Manning viral marketing campaign
There’s a cool story in the trade publication Publisher’s Weekly about the viral marketing campaign that I coordinated for the launch of the book Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop. I got some nice quotes in this piece by Gayle Feldman, talking about how we managed to get Frankie’s book from #22,000 to #7 on…
“For Dancers Only”: Why Jelly Roll pwns my lindy hop @$$
Image by Swifty Every once in awhile I get a bit discouraged about the lindy hop scene in New York. As the fertile ground where swing jazz and swing dance was innovated and developed during the 1930s and 40s, today the modern swing musician and dancer has few places where they can get their groove…
Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2007 Winners: The Brooklyn Bombshells!
=Well, the powers that be at Coney Island’s official website seem to be taking their sweet time posting the official results on the main Mermaid Parade page. But one of the moderators managed to get this onto their discussion boards, so I’m assuming these results are official. I’m going to repost them here, in case…
Google ranks my Mermaid Parade post as #2?
For some reason my previous post “Mermaid Parade 2007: So Long and Thanks for the Fish” is #2 on Google search right now. And the Mermaid Parade flickr group started by my friend RubyMae is #6. Given the thousands of people who were there and taking pictures and blogging, it’s weird that we would be…
Mermaid Parade 2007: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
My friends Tomo, Sammy and Beckto So yet another, and possibly the last, Coney Island Mermaid Parade is history, and I have to say this was perhaps my favorite of all the ones I’ve ever been to. The weather was just perfect: breezy, cool, and sunny. The crowds were immense and incredibly positive and festive….
Cindy in a music video!
A couple of months ago, my girlfriend Cindy was asked to be a dancer in a music video for an indie band unpronouncably named "!!!" or "ChkChkChk." Finally, months later, the video has come out. Cindy, being the down-to-earth girl that she is, had pretty realistic expectations of her appearance, or lack thereof, in the…