Category: Dancing / Music

I'm intrigued by this blog / video project called "Road to BC-One."  It's a weekly chronicle of the preparation, training, and thoughts of one b-boy, Paranoid Android, as he gets closer to the BC-One world breaking competition in Russia on November 26. The filmmaking on these videos is gorgeous, and the posts are pretty interesting…

That's right, it's time again for our the semi-annual Yehoodi Video Talk Show, featuring your hosts Spuds and me, Rikomatic. We have a really fun show this time around, showcasing recent dance news, awesome performance footage from Dax and Sarah and Andrew and Karen, and of course our most popular segment: the best of "The…

  Thank you, Onion, from the bottom of my heart.

Here's something I have been thinking about off and on for literally years. How do we most effectively propagate knowledge about lindy hop in this era? Traditionally, lindy hop is a street / vernacular dance. It evolved and developed outside of a formal studio setting, largely in public or semi-public spaces (dance clubs, jazz clubs,…

One of my biggest hurdles as a dancer is the ability to learn and retain long sequences of choreography. I just seem to take much longer to learn even fairly short sequences of moves than other people in performance classes or workshops. It's super annoying. Am I doomed to always have this as a barrier…

  Ok this remix "The Charleston" by DJ Maurice & Daim Vega kind of bores me with it's fairly standard club beat and plinky-plinky classic swing sample. And those dancers only do like three actual charleston steps, plus the Roger Rabbit? WTH? But there's a lot to, um, appreciate about three lovely ladies rocking out…