Category: Dancing / Music

Holy smokes! This video of the lindy hop performance team 23 Skidoo really blows my mind. It’s from the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown in St Paul, Minnesota that took place last weekend.  I find it a near perfect blend of athleticism, musicality, great lines, and high energy.  In other words, totally bad ass.  The judges…

Kate Taylor interviewed me for an article that was published today in the New York Sun entitled "A New Generation of Swing Kids."  Nice to see the plug for the swing website I help run Yehoodi and our weekly dance the Frim Fram Jam.  I was pleasantly surprised that I got quoted as much as…

Image by Larry Kang Congratulations to my buddy Jesse Miner, whose swing music podcast "Hey Mister Jesse" was one of the featured ‘casts on Adam Curry’s Podfinder show this week.  For those that don’t know, Adam Curry basically invented the term podcasting and is still a leading figure in the podcast community.  So having him…

Spuds and I finished recording and uploading (a bit late) another episode of our bi-weekly swing podcast the Yehoodi Talk Show. In this show, Spuds and I talk about lots of cool Web2.0 sites that can enhance your swing experience, or maybe just keep you from work for a few minutes, including video aggregators, photo…

Check this amazing video of Dinah Washington singing "All of Me" at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.  From the incredible documentary "Jazz on a Summer’s Day."

   Here’s a brief teaser video I did for the Yehoodi Talk Show special edition from the Herrang Dance Camp. I chat with Italian lindy hop instructors Vincenzo and Isabella. Isabella recounts a painful / hilarious story about how she broke her nose while social dancing.  Head to http://www.yehoodi.com/talk if you’d like watch the entire…

So Spuds, the co-host of the Yehoodi Talk Show, has finished the herculean job of editing down the hours of footage we took at the Herrang Dance Camp into a 50 minute video podcast.  The show features everything from interviews with Herrang campers to a walk-through of notable Herrang sites to explicit blues dancing footage. …

As this season’s "So You Think You Can Dance" winds down to its conclusion, I’ve been thinking about how cool it is that I have a cohort of dancer friends from around the country who are watching it with me and commenting along on the discussion boards of Yehoodi, the swing dance website I help…

I love Billie Holiday, I love electronic music.  I should love, "Billie Holiday: Re-mixed and Re-imagined," right?  Well, not exactly. I met some lindy hop friends at the South Street Seaport last night to catch a performance by some of the DJs and musicians featured on the new Billie Holiday album.  It was a pretty…

Back in States now, getting ready to go back to "real life" after my adventures at the Herrang Dance Camp. It’s hard to sum up the experience of being crammed together with 800 crazy lindy hoppers for nine days in a tiny town in Sweden. On my last morning in Herrang, I strolled through the…