My name is Sharon Davis

I am an Australian dancer, based in London.
I dance Lindy Hop, Charleston, Blues & Burlesque

email / me@sharondavis.com.au
phone / (+44) 0777 444 6100 (UK)

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New Orleans in Marie Claire Magazine

New Orleans in Marie Claire Magazine

The March 2011 edition of Marie Claire shot their editorial in New Orleans, and I recognise some faces! Fabulous shot of Uncle Lionel, isn’t he a charmer? Ahh, jazz and fashion together, heaven…...
VintageJazzArt.com

VintageJazzArt.com

My friend Mike Thibault just launched the new website for Vintage Jazz Art, which sells gorgeous prints of – yes, you guessed it – vintage jazz art. I’m so excited about this, I’m breaking my personal vow to stop blogging until after ESDC. But this is so g...
So, what’s a Killer Diller anyway?

So, what’s a Killer Diller anyway?

I got asked three times recently, where the name of our team The Killer Dillers comes from. The phrase “killer diller” is jazz slang, in common use in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. To be a “killer” or a “killer diller” meant you were red hot, back in...
DJ Set: Rockin’ in Rhythm, Dublin Ireland, April 2010

DJ Set: Rockin’ in Rhythm, Dublin Ireland, April 2010

Photos: Red Nichols (left), Bob Howard (right) At The Clambake Carnival, Cab Calloway, 186 bpm Nice Work If You Can Get It, Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra with Billie Holiday, 1937, 165 bpm You’ve Got To Give Me Some, Clarence Williams, 185 bpm Ballin’ The Jack, Red...
London Girls-Only Jazz Classes

London Girls-Only Jazz Classes

As promised to my gorgeous London students tonight, here are the songs for the two choreographies I am teaching in London over the next three weeks. These are the whole songs, and I may edit them down to be shorter for the next two lessons, but you can practice to these in the me...
Harvest Moon Ball

Harvest Moon Ball

This weekend in Munich for the Rock That Swing Festival, Juan and I taught a class of moves from the Harvest Moon Ball. As promised, here is the footage I showed at the beginning of class. It’s a compilation I put together of a bunch of the surviving footage, overlaid with ...
Jazz Manouche & the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival

Jazz Manouche & the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival

So I had the good fortune of arriving in Argentina a few weeks ago, in time for the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival! That never happens! Whenever I arrive in a new country, I’m always greeted by “Oh, if only you had been here last weekend! What a shame!“  But not thi...
New footage of Frankie Manning

New footage of Frankie Manning

I just got pointed towards a snippet of footage of the late great Frank Manning, social dancing in the Savoy Ballroom in 1937!  I have so much vintage footage in my collection (over 2,000 short clips on my laptop alone), that sometimes it seems impossible that I could ever stumbl...
Get your Nagasaki on!

Get your Nagasaki on!

Well, the lyrics may be wildly politically incorrect these days, but Nagasaki is in my opinion a slammin’ little jazz tune. I’ve got renditions I love by Django Reinhardt, Adrian Rollini, Gene Krupa, Benny Carter, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, Putney Dandridge, Will...
Hot Jazz in Hell

Hot Jazz in Hell

From its very inception, jazz and the devil were thrown into the same basket (like this 1921 article and this 1938 news story).  Well, I’m not a religious person, and quite frankly hell for me would be a world without jazz, but anyway, the imagery linking hot jazz and that ...