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    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
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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Three 2010 Blues Dance Clips I Like

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Students Don’t Need Convincing

(Thanks Kevin Sue for the picture. Note: this picture is not a picture from the lindy hop class). Tomorrow will be the last class I will be filling in for Bees Knees beginner lindy hop class on Monday nights. Kathleen and I were temporarily filling in for May/June this summer and usually after the class...

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Tyler @ Dovercourt Blues

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Guest Blog Post: Brian Gottheil’s Ottawa Swing Experience

So after the University of Toronto’s swing dance club’s beer and chicken wings night out, I had a great discussion with Alex M, Kathleen, and Brian G from Ottawa (previously somewhere not Ottawa) about, what else, the dance scene in Toronto. I won’t bore you with the specifics of that conversation but I remembered that...

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Dancing at Seattle’s Camp Jitterbug

Seattle has been one of my favorite cities to visit ever since the first time I placed foot there in my university years. In fact, the Seattle Lindy Exchange 2006 was the first out of town experience and holds a place in my heart. Camp Jitterbug is an event held in Seattle with competitions, performances,...

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Let’s Pay Our Dance DJs

After conducting a survey around our dance scene, it seems that our awesome DJs are not actually being paid to provide music for “for-profit” events with the exception of the Toronto Swing Dance Society. That’s crazy.

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First Friday Blues Pictures

First Friday Blues Pictures. June 04, 2010.

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Up Jumped Swing!

Heard at Toronto’s Saturday night lindy hop dance at the Dovercourt House. Yeahhhhhhh.

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