I just got home from an amazing night of fine dining, music and dancing at the swellegant Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It all started a few weeks ago when my friend and fellow lindy hopper Lauren asked me if I wanted to volunteer to be a dancer for this classy fundraiser in November. I’m always happy…
Category: Dancing / Music
Reminder: My breakdance performance next week!
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,…
Yehoodi Talk Show #500: The Howling Monkey show
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’m headed to the “Swing and Soul” Weekend, December 7-9 in Atlanta!
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,…
Why social dancing is like improv (thanks, Stephen Cobert!)
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…
Charleston away those unsightly pounds with “20 Aerobic Dance Hits”
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…
Catch my breakdance performance November 15 and 18
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 celebrates nine years serving the global swing community!
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…
Pics of me dancing at the Apollo with Sharon Jones! (Thanks, Laura!)
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!
I danced at the Apollo with Sharon Jones!
I just got back from an incredible concert by the soul super-group Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. I had been looking forward to seeing Sharon Jones for awhile, after hearing my friend Zev talk about how amazing her concerts are. By chance, I managed to get front row seats…