Category: Dancing / Music

So tonight is the first of two shows by the breakdance performance class that I’m in. It’s a complicated, six minute piece with difficult tricks and freezes throughout. The Thursday night show is sold out, and we’re first on the bill. We’re understandably concerned and nervous about executing it perfectly. So last night was not…

Just a quick reminder that tickets are almost sold out for several of the shows that are part of the  PMT Dance Studio‘s Fall Showcase. I’ll be performing a breakdance routine with six other b-boys and girls on Thursday, November 15 and Sunday, November 18,  choreographed by our awesome instructor and world-class B-boy Pavan Thimmaiah,…

Join Spuds and Rikomatic for another exciting Yehoodi Talk Show video podcast, recorded live from my lovely Fort Green apartment.  This month, we feature a bunch of cool clips, including lindy hoppers on "Dancing with the Stars," an adolescent jazz diva, some badass footage from the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, and Jojo Jackson’s new solo…

I just booked my tickets for the "Swing and Soul" dance weekend from December 7-9 in Atlanta Georgia. I love the event description: This will be a weekend dedicated to that energy that we call Soul. You’ll find it in the music we play, lots of classic 60’s soul from hitmakers like Motown and Stax,…

I have known from conversations with improvisers like Frankyboy and others that there was some implicit connection between improv and social dancing. But I never really got it until yesterday when I read, of all things, a 2006 commencement speech given by Stephen Cobert at Knox College: When I was starting out in Chicago, doing…

This gem of an graphic is from an early 1980s album entitled "20 Aerobic Dance Hits" put out by Parade Records. I found this two LP record set while perusing a thrift shop in the Adirondacks a couple of weeks ago and simply had to have it.  The set contains a 20 page aerobic instruction…

Although I dance A LOT, I don’t usually perform, which tends to confuse people who ask about my dancing. Most of my dance activity is confined to social dancing at swing music venues and the occasional party or club. So it’s rare to see me dancing in public ( with the exception of the Apollo…

Yehoodi Admins Rikomatic, Shorty Dave, LilieBlue and Effervescent. Pictures by our pal D-Rod. Last night, we had a modest but fun celebration to fete the ninth anniversary of Yehoodi.com, the lindy hop/ swing dance community website that I help run.  Instead of our usual blowout party weekends, we just expanded our regular Thursday night Frim…

Amazing photographer Laura Hanifin was kind enough to send along pictures of me dancing onstage at the Apollo Theater with Ms. Sharon Jones.  I guess it wasn’t a dream, it really happened! Thanks, so much, Laura!