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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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Tag Archives: Blues

Three 2010 Blues Dance Clips I Like

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First Friday Blues Pictures

First Friday Blues Pictures. June 04, 2010.

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BluesShout 2010 – Photos Preview

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Blues Inspiration

Inspiration is a magical thing, a productivity multiplier, a motivator. But it won’t wait for you. Inspiration is a now thing. If it grabs you, grab it right back and put it to work. Stop what you are doing right now and watch this clip. Don’t worry, I’ll wait until you’re finished watching. ;-)

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What I’ve Learned Teaching Intro to Blues

This quarter was the first time I have actually taught a continuous set of blues lessons in my life. There I’ve said it. The cat is out of the bag! I mean I have always been trying to figure out moves with my friends even before I even knew it was called “blues dancing”. I...

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8tracks – mmmmm chillin’ like a villain

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Upcoming Blues Dances in Toronto

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.

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(re)Building a Blues Scene – Part 2

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...

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