Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
Late last night, I returned from my second epic dance adventure at Lindy Focus in Asheville, North Carolina. There’s lots I can say about the event, but in this post I wanted to share what I learned by setting up a free coffee stand at this swing jazz / lindy hop event. By…
Here's a quick pictorial rundown of 2015. It's a good reminder to me of what a remarkable year it has been! Dancing and Music This has been a great year for dance. I did a lot of house dancing in 2015, including organizing semi-regular practice sessions in the Golden Gate Park , taking classes with…
This weekend is the 17th annual San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Festival, a raucous celebration of street dance held at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts. I saw "program A" of the show last night and it's one of the strongest years of the HHDF I've ever seen. Micaya the indefatigable organizer does an incredible…
Watch this awesome retrospective on sixty episodes of "SwingNation," the internet's only weekly talk show on swing and lindy hop. Lots of great moments in there, from "I Charleston" to chatting with Al Minn's son. Produced by the super talented Manu Smith.
I can take or leave Justin Bieber. But damn, that singer just gave his entire music video for his song "Sorry" over to Parris Goebel and her ReQuest Dance Crew. So mad props to him. I typically don't like this style of shake it and twerk it dancing. But damn if Parris and Request don't…
This is everything to me. Watch "Star Wars Cantina Band – Noize Tank Remix | Ray Basa Choreography".
So this awesome animated dancing gif has been making the rounds, for good reason. First off, it’s bad ass. Second off, it’s hilarious. The more and more I watch it, the more that I think it perfectly encapsulates some important life lessons that go way beyond dancing. Stay with me here! So what’s one of the…
I've been meaning to put together this list for awhile, since I get asked this on a regular basis. This is my own, non-exhaustive, curated list of places to learn and dance lindy hop in the San Francisco Bay Area. Basically, if I can recommend a venue or I go their regularly, they made the…
I stumbled across this dope dance video of several groups of dancers doing basically the same choreography created by Lia Kim. All the dancers are awesome, but what really struck me was how different each of the versions was from each other, even though they were doing essentially the same set of movements. Small…
Over the next days, we'll post more about how the live broadcast from the 2015 International Lindy Hop Championships went, thank all the folks involved, and share where you can find the archives and assets later. But I wanted to just write quickly about what we accomplished at ILHC this year, as a reminder of…