Hamfats bio picture
  • 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.

  • Contact

    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

Category Archives: Toronto

Tyler @ Dovercourt Blues

View full Post »

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.

View full Post »

Up Jumped Swing!

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

View full Post »

Being a Taxi Dancer is kind of Awkward

Which picture doesn’t fit? I’ll give you one guess. Last Saturday, Toronto and Dovercourt House held a fundraiser for the Frankie Fund (or was it the Frankie headstone?) in celebration of the joy Frankie Manning left for the world. There were bake sales, raffle draws, silent auctions, performances, and taxi dancers for “rent”. Being not...

View full Post »

(re)Building a Blues Scene – Part 3

It took us half a year but I believe that the Yonge & Bloor blues community is starting to find its own footing in the overall social dance scene in Toronto.

View full Post »

People of Dovercourt

Pictures of Dovercourt dancers, Frankie celebration night, May 29, 2010.

View full Post »

Quick Poll 2: Action

Wow. The first poll definitely caught me by surprise in terms of how much everyone really cares about their respective scene. While I might not agree with some of the view points shared, the best thing about having a site like Hamfats is that people can share and convey ideas freely and without being moderated....

View full Post »

Quick Poll: If you could improve 1 thing…

I’ve been thinking about being a positive influence in my dance scene this past year. Quite honestly, it keeps me up at night and I wake up with all these ideas stirring in my head. So now my question to you guys/gals is: If you could improve one thing in your respective dance scene to...

View full Post »