Check out Jasper’s UT-Swing blog post about DJ’ing and training up newbies. This is something that is recently on my mind a lot so I’m glad to be throwing this re-blog up. This weekend UT-Swing hosted a DJ seminar to give some aspiring DJs a little head start and share some tips of the trade....
A few pictures from the Pirates of Dovercourt Night! A special edition of Saturday Night Swing hosted by Bees Knees Dance
Coming back from the lindy hop mini workshop that Alcina Chiu and I taught at UWO, we were treated to a FANTASMICAL band at Dovercourt, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm. Toronto dance organizers, take his name and band contact information down because that’s the SOUND that we want to HEAR so we can SWING. I...
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.
