Category: Dancing / Music

I’m resting up today because tomorrow night my breakdance group performs at the PMT Spring Showcase. I haven’t been blogging (or doing much of anything else) lately because every free moment for the past couple of weeks has been spent on breakdance practice.  It’s been a lot of last-second choreographing and adjustments to get to…

Here’s some video of my breakdance performance class practice tonight. Dancers: Matt, Trevor, Eugene, Will and Rik.

The April 1st episode of the Yehoodi Talk Show is online, and it’s not a joke! Spuds and I talk about a cool new fund for aging lindy hoppers, we announce the first lindy hop exchange in China, and we preview our newest podcast for the ladies … "Beaver Lodge." (Insert groan here.) Oh, and more…

The Boston Tea Party this weekend was my first big swing dance event of the year.  For awhile I have been hearing about what a great party it is, with a thousand or so lindy hoppers and west coast swing dancers gathering from around the country for competitions and dance parties all night.  There’s something…

Click to Play This is a jam circle in the lindy hop room at the Boston Tea Party dance event that I’m at this weekend.  Really amazing dancers here from all over the United States from both the lindy hop and the west coast swing world. I’ll try and get some West Coast Swing footage…

Click to Play I’m up in lovely Danvers, Massachusetts for the “Boston Tea Party” — a weekend long bachannal of swing dancing competitions, performances, and social dancing.  The event is unique because it brings together the lindy hop and the West Coast flavors of the swing dance world, sub-genres which usually hold their own separate…

Click to Play I shot a little bit of video today of me and some other people in my breakdance group practicing some of our moves.  Above is a little solo that I am working on.  Also recorded: Trevor and Eli working on a really cool spinning move Trevor working on his swipes It’s super…