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  • What is this site about?

    Welcome to hamfats.ca, a social danceography blog site from aspiring dancer, dj, and dance photographer, Randy Panté. Other bloggers on this site include Tien Le (Vancouver) and most recently, Kevin Temple (Kingston). We cover topics that are relevant to our day to day lives as passionate social dancers.

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    Questions about dance or dance photography? Feel free to send me a shout! (Also, all Randy wants to do is dance with you).

    Email: randypante@gmail.com
    Phone: +1.647.330.9230

Monthly Archives: March 2009

Frankie Manning 95 Video for Housing

Frankie’s appeal for housing for out-of-towners coming in for his birthday in May. Not our video but it is so unique and so Frankie that I felt compelled to post it up.

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KLIX – Kingston Lindy Exchange

Kingston Exchange (KLIX) was the first time offering from those wily kids from Queens Swing Club. I was surprisingly pleased by how much fun I had at this event. So much fun that I actually broke the heel of my right Aris Allens during the Sunday dance.

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Toronto Shim Shams for Frankie

Toronto + Lindy Hop + <3 = Shim Sham for Frankie Manning.

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Ottawa LindyBomb 2009

I don’t really have anything to say besides that meeting new people who <3 dance as much as I do is one of the best feelings in the world.

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Steven and Virginie ‘Killer’ Workshops

BLAM! What a workshop weekend with Steven Mitchell and Virginie Jensen out here in Toronto. To put it lightly, it was a killer weekend, but oh so worth every moment.

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Social Butterfly (Dance Card) Event

United Salseros hosted an awesome event last night that involved the use of “dance cards” and an emphasis on making sure that beginner dancers have a good time.

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iFreestyle Training Session

As some of you might know, I dabble in various organizations to further my development as a dancer. The mambo dance team that I have had the fortunate opportunity to be a part of this this year is Caryl’s iFreestyle mambo training team.

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