On Sunday, 80-some lindy hoppers gathered for a "lindy bomb" of the Nostalgia Subway Train that runs during the holidays on the F Train line. It was an incredible day of dancing, great music, and random New York weirdness. At about 12:30, a bunch of us lindy hoppers were gathered at the 2nd Avenue Subway…
Category: Dancing / Music
Louis Armstrong Museum Launches Online Catalog of Satchmo’s Photos, Letters and More
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona Queens this weekend announced that they have begun releasing online some of the thousands of digitized archives about Louis Armstrong that they are the caretakers for. The online catalog will provide the public access to some of the "5,000 sound recordings, 15,000 photographs, 30 films, 100 scrapbooks, 20…
The LXD Season 2 Finale: Throwdown at the OK Corral
Season two of the epic dance web series "The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers" finished this week with a two part episode "The Good, The Bad and the Ra." Here are the direct links to the videos: Part I Part II This is the massive multi-dancer battle that we've all been waiting for, with each episode…
Vids & Photos of Swing Dancing on the Nostalgia Subway Train [UPDATED]
My buddy Voon shares with me a fun video of him and I (and later, Mafa and I) dancing on the "Nostalgia Subway Train" this past Sunday. Good times, good times. See my previous post for more about what this is all about. Thanks for filming this, Mafa, and sharing it, Voon! UPDATED 12/14/10: Lots…
New York Moments: Dancing on a moving subway train, then in a divey bar in Williamsburg
Today was one of those days when I love New York so much that it hurts to think of leaving. Where else could I be dancing on a classic 1940s subway train with a couple hundred other vintage attired revelers, while a hot jazz band plays? The occasion was the "Nostalgia Train" that the MTA…
Awesome Time Doing B-boy Piece “Ill Train” at Frim Fram!
My crew and I had a great time performing for the crowd at the Frim Fram Jam on Thursday. Fellow dancers Will, Eugene, and young Brooke got to do our b-boy piece "Ill Train" one last time for an appreciative audience of 150 lindy hoppers, which is always a blast. Our choreographer Pavan (in the…
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers on Conan Last Night (video)
Here's video of a very dark dance piece by the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers on the Conan O'Brian show last night. Seemed pretty subdued and moody for a live piece. The crowd hardly seemed hyped up at all. Odd choice. That said, last night's episode of the LXD was actually pretty good, if too short.
“Thought of You”: Amazing Animated Dance Short (video)
Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo. Animation artist Ryan Woodward created this gorgeous and moving animated short combining dance choreography with fantasy elements. I love how grounded the movement of the characters is, clearly based on the movement of real bodies. And the incorporation of wings, water, electricity and smoke add to…
How Ken Swift teaches improvisation and character in B-boying
I dropped in on Ken Swift's regular "breaking fundamentals" class that he has been running at PMT Studios for awhile now. It's always an enlightening experience, learning from one of the original innovators of this unique artform. Teaching breaking is enormously difficult, which I know from humbling personal experience. The dance demands so much from…
Videos are Up for the Red Bull BC-One B-boy Battle in Tokyo!
Wow, the videos from Saturday's epic b-boy battle Red Bull BC-One in Tokyo are already online, just one day later! And these aren't grainy, one angle, crappy audio cameraphone vids. This is a film-quality crew bringing the world's 16 best b-boys to the internet properly. And best part about the online videos — no annoying…