Speaking of electro-swing: check out this killer electro-swing dance routine by dancers Nikki and Bobby. There's everything I love in there: some house, some solo jazz, some lindy hop, and some popping, perfectly executed. Songs: "Allez Viens" by Bart and Baker and "Mambo Fever" by Lazy Flow
Category: Dancing / Music
Other Examples of Lindy Hoppers Dancing to Hip-hop / Electronica / Electro-swing
The now viral video from Montreal Swing Riot has gotten a lot of people excited about the potential for combining lindy hop with other street dances and more contemporary music. As a lindy hopper, b-boy and a house dancer, I'm always on the lookout for cool collaborations, competitions and performances that bring these different styles together. Here…
Montreal Swing Riot brings together Lindy Hop and Hip Hop
This video from the 2014 Montreal Swing Riot has been going viral, at nearly 50K views only a day after being published. It shows the invitational battle between some awesome lindy hoppers and a group of street dancers, including b-boys, krumpers, poppers, and lockers. You can see the mutual respect and admiration from all of…
B-boy Practice with Jeremy in Golden Gate Park (video)
I like the look of this video of Jeremy and I practicing a part of the "It Don't Mean a Thing" piece that we performed earlier this year. This was an ending to our piece that Jeremy and I were brainstorming and wanted to share with the rest of the crew. The framing of the…
Watch the International Lindy Hop Championships with Me This Weekend!
This weekend I'm going to be in DC for my favorite dance event of the year, the International Lindy Hop Championships. I'm inviting you to watch along with me the live broadcast of this global dance competition that I'm helping to produce along with some friends. Whether you know anything about lindy hop (swing dancing)…
Yehoodi’s 8-bit Gamer Take on the 2014 International Lindy Hop Championships
I've been chomping at the bit to share out these awesome screengrabs from our new animation open for the 2014 International Lindy Hop Championships this weekend. Manu, Jim and I conceived of this on the plane ride back from Frankie100 in April, and it's so awesome to see it finally getting to see the light…
“Step Up: All In” Review: Amazing Dancing, Meh Plot, Crappy Romance
Last night, I went with some friends to catch the opening weekend of the latest in the "Step Up" dance film franchise "Step Up: All In." I've been a fan of this series since the first "Step Up" in 2006. I enjoyed "Step Up 2: The Streets," fanatically love "Step Up 3D" and was…
Which “Step Up” Movie is Best? Only YOU Can Decide!
I'm throwing a "Step Up" movie marathon this weekend, in honor of the FIFTH installment coming out soon. Can you believe there are five of these things now? Anyway, I wanted to figure out which of the four existing "Step Up" films to show at my place. Help me decide by ranking them from…
Ichigeki at 2005 Battle of the Year: One of the Best B-boy Routines Ever (video)
One of the highlights of the documentary "Planet B-Boy" is an incredible group performance by the legendary Japanese b-boy crew Ichigeki. I've watched that routine roughly 100 times. Finally, the routine has been put (legally) on YouTube. Watch it below, and I've got a few comments after: There's so much that makes this outstanding…
Get Schooled on the A-Z of African Dance! (video)
Africa is an enormous and diverse continent. So it makes sense that there would be hundreds of different dance styles and sub-cultures. Here is one compilation of African dance forms demonstrated by "The Dance Hall" in Senegal. Really wonderful seeing all these kinds of movement, so many of which were unknown to me. I'm a…