FINALLY! The video of the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers presenting and performing at the TED conference earlier this year has been released. I've been eagerly anticipated the LXD webseries, and this looks like the first major public appearance by them online in 2010. So, super exciting to see this! Featured dancers: Madd Chadd: "Master of…
Category: Dancing / Music
America’s Best Dance Crew Episode 505: An Easy Challenge Let’s the Dancers Shine More
America's Best Dance Crew (Season 5) – MTV Shows I liked "America's Best Dance Crew: Episode 5", which focused on giving each crew different music videos to emulate. The challenge was pretty much a softball that seemed designed to let each team stretch out and show their strengths to the judges and the audience. Here's…
Cangelosi Cards perform “I Got Rhythm” (video)
Here's a sweet rendition of "I Got Rhythm" by the awesome NYC swing band the Cangelosi Cards. I caught them last night, of all places, at the Shambhala Meditation Center on West 22nd Street. Gotta love Andrew's awesome tapping, Tamar's crazy singing, Gordon Au on trumpet and the rest of the band just killing it. …
A Year of Traveling: Where to go and why
My friends Dave and Kim, after a couple of years of planning and saving, are doing what I'm sure you have fantasized about from your cubicle: a year of traveling around the world. Their itinerary is taking them to a ridiculous amount of cool places, from Macchu Picchu to Bali to Sweden to Uganda. For…
America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5: Jumprope, African, Plus-size dancers and more!
America's Best Dance Crew (Season 5) – MTV Shows My friend Dana told me that this season's America's Best Dance Crew was worth checking out, so I got caught up last night on Episode Four. ABDC's producers seem committed to bringing a diverse assortment of street dance to television, which I think is admirable and…
Heather Flock & Laura Jeffers’ new lindy hop program starting in March!
I'm excited to announce that my friends and fellow dancers Heather Flock and Laura Jeffers (along with Felix Pitre and Jessie Patz), are starting up a new lindy hop program at You Should Be Dancing Studios in Manhattan. Heather has been running our dance lessons at Yehoodi's weekly dance for the past couple of years…
Swing This Week: 7th Anniversary of Jelly Roll & Fundraiser for NYSDS!
I'm unfortunately travelling this week, so I'll be missing the celebrations of two great swing institutions in New York: Jelly Roll Productions and the New York Swing Dance Society. But you should go if you can! First up, on Friday, February 19, Jelly Roll Productions will be celebrating their seventh year of operations with a…
Breaking Practice Today (video)
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“Autorretrato”: Compania Maria Pages Breathtaking Flamenco Show at City Center
I and a friend had the pleasure of seeing Compania Maria Pages perform their ensemble flamenco show "Autorretrato" ("Self Portrait") last night at the New York City Center. The show was breathtaking, a fine example of how this ancient artform still has new life and power. Despite being staged at the enormous City Center, "Autorretrato"…
Flamenco photos and performance at Aperture Gallery
This week, I got an invite from my friend Leslie to the Aperture Gallery for the opening of flamenco photo exhibit called "No Singing Allowed." It's a really impressive retrospective of photography of the Spanish artform, told from both the outsider's eye and by Spaniards themselves. I found it very telling how this vernacular dance…