One of the ways to “legitimize” the blues scene that is rapidly growing in Toronto is to have blues-centric dances as opposed to having “blues” music (and I use that loosely) at end of a swing night. Luckily for us, Toronto is going buck-wild like a prodigy child about blues dancing and there is a bunch of opportunities for dancing.
Had a great turn out at the first Yonge and Bloor Blues event and you could say it was a bit of success. We had about sixty to seventy people throughout the course of the event. This by itself is not a lot of people compared to our local lindy hop saturday night dance (which...
Forgot to post this – won a competition with Alcina Chiu at Toronto’s Inter-Regional Jack and Jills. :) More clips on the site’s Vimeo page (http://vimeo.com/channels/hamfats).
In the world of social dancing, learning and excelling on the dance floor is kind of a badge of honor. At first you are too shy to ask anyone better than you dance then a zillion hours later (only slight hyperbole), you are throwing down with the best of them. For a left side brain...
A few pictures from the Christmas/Yule Big Band Swing Ball at Dovercourt this Saturday.