(Photo By: Bill Steber) Toronto’s blues dance for blues dancers holds its first event on Jan. 29, 2010. Epic. Website: http://yongebloorblues.com/
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Here’s the deal. Ever since I moved to Toronto, I have been asking, “why is there never any actual blues dances in the city?”. Sure every now and then we would get a fat dance from local events like the Toronto University Exchange (which btw, is coming up again in January), or late night at...
Here are the videos for the team cuttin’ competition contest finals (split into three parts) between Minneapolis’ “Team Planet” and our group, the “Toronto Cuttin’ Crew“. Representing for team Toronto, we had myself, Shannon Refvik, Tien Le, and Kim Dennill. Minneapolis’ team was led by the one and only Amanda. Northstar Blues – Team Cutting...
I found out that that someone already posted videos up of the solo cuttin’ contest. Thanks to FloridaDave for putting this up. I’m the guy in the brown jacket if you did not know :) For direct YouTube clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRSW-M3Ms_s&fmt=6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfoOzg9MkQ&fmt=6
This May I flew to Chicago for a popular blues event, Blues Shout. I met some really welcoming mid-western locals who were kind enough to truck me around for the weekend and got to dance with and gawk at some of the best blues dancers from the US. I ate an unhealthy amount of deep-dish...
Joe and Nelle, from Colorado, taught and performed this weekend at BluesShout in Chicago. Here is a quick clip of them doing a demo of “slow drag blues”.
*Updated* Now with video! Check it after the jump. After missing out on the Toronto Lindy Hop Homegrown Cabaret last year and hearing the post-excitement after, I was looking forward to participating in the event with the University of Toronto swing club as a performer, a photographer, and as a DJ. To top it off,...