Here’s the flyer for the workshop here in Buenos Aires that Juan and I are teaching (with our lovely friends Maxi Prado & Agustina Zero) on 11th December 2011. For more information on the workshop click here....
My Facebook friend Frida Häggström Gerdt just posted up an amazing photo of Juan and I, competing at the 2010 Stockholm Jazz Jam in the finals of the Lindy Hop battle. This photo alone is worth posting. It really captures how crazed we were in the contest – we were all exha...
On that topic, watch Andrew & Karen doing some wholehearted embracing of their own in the Camp Jitterbug 2010 couples final, a few weeks ago: It’s easy to see why Andrew and Karen are the most popular couple in swing dancing. You guys rock, love your work! (Oh, and did ...
Anyone who’s taken my jazz classes recently knows I’m on a huge Bob Fosse kick (it all started when I began looking for inspiration for my new Beatnik routines, my current pet project). Nah, not 1970s “Spirit Fingers” Fosse, but the way cooler 1950s Fosse....
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...
A few flashbacks from the late 90′s, that made me smile…. A jam at the 1998 American Lindy Hop Championships, recognise anyone? The Flying Lindy Hoppers from California circa 1997:...
As promised, I’m posting up all the video clips that I referenced during Stompology 2010. Ballin’ The Jack, choreographed by Gene Kelly for a television special (with Donald O’Connor) in 1960: And here are the numbers that inspired my Beatnik Routine! Firstly...
Stompology 2010 is this weekend! I just arrived in Rochester, New York for the event, and I’m resting up a few days so I’ll have all my energy for the weekend. Stompology is an all-jazz weekend, and this year the instructors are myself, Juan Villafane, Bethany Powell...
The Killer Dillers performed live with the Nine Penny Big Band in Bologna Italy for the Swing Brother Swing Festival, May 2010. It was an epic show, with ALL LIVE MUSIC! Many thanks to the Nine Pennies for learning our arrangements, it was a real pleasure! In case you don’t...
Here is colour 16mm footage (no sound) from the 1939 production of The Hot Mikado, at the New York World’s Fair. The musical was an all-black adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, with jazzy tunes, big-name performers and famous dancers, including Bill Bo...
