Earlier this week at a staff meeting at the Cal Academy, we did this ice breaker activity called "Back Writes" that was surprisingly insightful. Basically everyone in my department had a piece of paper taped to their backs and you were tasked with walking around and writing some kind of affirmation on it, either about…
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Jazzawockeez performing next week in SF!
A group of dancer friends of mine and I — performing under the very tongue-in-cheek name the "Jazzawockeez" — will be performing a couple of times next week, and it would be great to see you there! We've got a new routine that we've been working on called "It Don't Mean a Thing…" that we…
Club House at World of Dance LA
So much to love: flawless group choreo, lots of dope little kids rocking it so hard, great music choices, and the electro-swing / house set at the end is the sickest.
SwingNation 53: Peter Strom’s Announcement, the Ethics of Copying Routines
This episode of SwingNation #53 is going gangbusters with only a couple of days being online. Must be that MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT by lindy master Peter Strom. Or maybe it's our fascinating conversation about lindy hoppers copying each other's routines and the ethics behind that. Whatever it is, we're glad people are watching!
No Kid Is More Baller than This Kid
Check out this awesome kid in this photo from a Wall Street Journal article on the "Edible Schoolyard" project. No, seriously, check him out! Awesome tee-shirt: CHECK. Attitude: CHECK. Chicken: CHECK.
“Re/Genesis” : a Year Later
It’s hard to believe it was a year ago that my dance crew Freeplay and our friends at Prince on Point put on the dance show “Re/Genesis.” What a crazy, thrilling ride that was, and the high point of my time with Freeplay. If anything, “Re/Genesis” was worth it for all of the dope pictures that…
SwingNation #50: Lindy Blinded Me with Science
It's the 50th episode of "SwingNation"! I can't believe we've made it this far, and this was one of my favorite shows ever. Topics for this show include : Dancers from Africa who want to attend Frankie100 Do dancers brains sync when they dance together? And an amputee dances again thanks to awesome…
Dance from A-Z (video)
I kind of want to re-do this video, but with just social dances.
Six Things I learned at House Dance Conference Bay Area
This weekend I went to House Dance Conference Bay Area, a three day celebration of the art of house dancing. Sponsored by MVMT Dance Studio in Berkeley, the event featured competitions, dance parties and dance classes. Best of all, it was completely free! I've been to a number of different kinds of dance weekends, from swing to…
Irish and Bay Area Kids Learn to Code Together at the Cal Academy
On Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences hosted a fun coding workshop for middle schoolers that I helped facilitate. The occasion was the visit of five young programmers from Cork, Ireland to the Bay Area, along with the Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork, and various other dignitaries from Ireland. The sponsoring organization was called CoderDojo,…