Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I’m drinking a V8 tomato juice for the first time in years while on a short flight. And a flood of food memories suddenly pour in. When I was in college, I didn’t do a great job at feeding myself. I was living on my own for the first time in an apartment close to…
I just got home from a long weekend at the Camp Hollywood lindy hop camp in Los Angeles. To be perfectly honest, I have not been a fan of Camp Hollywood. In the past, I found the vibe superficial, clique-ish, and borderline sexist. I felt isolated and inadequate as a dancer at the event. I remember…
Photo Credit : Maren Marien Henes Finally home after a fantastic trip to DC for the 10th annual International Lindy Hop Championships. I've been coming to ILHC for many, many years, and it never gets old for me. ILHC brings together lots of things I cherish — being around some of the most talented dancers…
Yesterday I competed with my team the Shimmy Shakers at the 10th annual International Lindy Hop Championships. I have a lot of feelings, but mostly just feeling grateful and blessed to be here and be a part of this global community. We were one of a slew of awesome competitors in the brand new solo…
Tomorrow morning I'm off to Washington DC to compete with my team the Shimmy Shakers at the International Lindy Hop Championships! I'm so excited to share our routine with the world, which is fun, dynamic, slick and weird. And I get to do it with a swell gaggle of shakers. More soon…
The New York Times has an inspired write up about Quaker activist Benjamin Lay, “You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf.” It really speaks to my condition, as Friends say: “Lay, a hunchback as well as a dwarf, was the world’s first revolutionary abolitionist. Against the common sense of the day, when slavery…
Spam musubi is one of my favorite guilty pleasures from the Islands. Carb-loaded, greasy, salty, and sticky, spam musubi just make me happy. I was invited to my friend Michael's annual birthday pie extravaganza, where the cost of entry is a homemade pie. It's a fantastic celebration of everything pie, with people going all out…
I won't always be dancing the way I dance now. I've been thinking about that in mostly a negative ways: My body won't let me b-boy anymore… I'm losing flexibility and power, so I have to make up for it in some other way….I won't be able to do the things I do now in ten…
Check out legendary waacker Princess Lockeroo doing a sick showcase to Ella Fitzgerald's "Air Mail Special." Love that mix of waacking and jazz movement!
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to put together a nicely produced video of me dancing, showcasing all of the fun dance styles I’ve been playing with over the past couple of years, including solo jazz, charleston, house, and waacking. Last Saturday, I finally got it together to do it, with the help of…