I've been busting my ass rehearsing for my b-boy performance at the PMT Dance Showcase this weekend. I, along with 3 other b-boys / b-girls, will be doing a fun subway-inspired piece that I'm very proud of. Here's a pic of most of my costume. Guess which archetypal New Yorker I am? Our shows are…
Category: Dancing / Music
Interview with Minn Vo about Lindy Hop and the LXD
Check out this neat interview Spuds and I did with lindy hopper / b-boy Minn Vo, who talks about how he got lindy (albeit briefly) onto the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers webseries. Minn is a champion lindy hop dancer, with a long history of 1st place titles in the dance competition circuit including American Lindy…
First Dancer’s Review of “Dance Central” and Kinect for Xbox 360
My buddy Spuds posts to Yehoodi.com his review of the new XBox 360 game "Dance Central," the flagship dancing game of the new "Kinect" controller system. It's the first dancer's perspective review of "Dance Central" that I've seen on the web so far. Kinect is what might be a paradigm-changing system for interfacing with your…
Evita and Michael dancing to “Singing in the Rain” in Central Park
Evita Arce and Michael Jagger in Singing in the Rain from Eileen O'Donnell on Vimeo. I am just in love with this video of Evita Arce and Mike Jaeger dancing to "Singing in the Rain" in Central Park. While they are both nationally-known lindy hoppers, Evita and Mike demonstrate a wide variety of dance styles…
See My Final B-boy Performance with PMT Studios November 19 and 20
So what will most likely be my final dance performance in NYC will be at PMT studios on November 19 and 20. I will be doing a fun b-boy piece with my friends Eugene, Will and Brooke, choreographed by Pavan Thimmaiah, as part of the PMT Fall Seasonal Showcase. The showcases always have an ecclectic…
Lynn’s Photo Shoot of Eugene and I Breaking
My friend and fantastic photographer Lynn has posted to Flickr a bunch of pics from the photoshoot of my friend Eugene and me breaking that we did last weekend. I'm super jazzed about how the pics came out! Catching exactly the right moment as we are hitting various b-boy freezes is no easy task. Honestly,…
Boilermakers Jazz Band Playing Live at Frim Fram this Thursday!
This Thursday, November 4, we are throwing a very special Frim Fram Jam swing dance. We are delighted to be showcasing the Boilermaker Jazz Band performing live, with DJ Swifty spinning during the breaks. Plus this is the beginning of the month, so we will have a beginner dance lesson taught by the talented Mr….
Breaking photo shoot with Lynn and Eugene
This morning I had a really fun time at a breaking photo shoot done by my friend Lynn, a talented photographer and fellow lindy hopper. She has a good eye for catching dancers in motion, as you can see from her recent shoot of the General Mischief Dance Theater group and awesome lindy hoppers Evita…
Cute Halloween Logo on Yehooooooooodi.com!
Thanks to awesome graphic designer Damien Fate for creating this adorable Halloween-themed logo variation for our website Yehoodi.com! See more about Damien and his design work on the Pixel Valley website. For Halloween weekend dance opportunities, see our New York event calendar at http://yehoodi.com/nyc. Who wants pumpkin pie?
“Toy Story 3” Dance Scene Copies Lindy Hop Viral Video
Captain Morgan on Yehoodi.com posted that there are some very telling similarities between a dance scene in "Toy Story 3" and a clip of dancers at the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown from 2006. The dancers in the ULHS clip are Todd Yannacone and Frida Segerdahl. Watching the two clips together, it's hard to imagine the…