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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// on November 2009
Shorty George

Shorty George

I just stumbled across this clip of Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire dancing ‘The Shorty George’ in the movie You Were Never Lovelier (1942). A nice, if slightly odd, little tribute to one of our legends, George “Shorty” Snowden. George was a first generatio...
Western Swing

Western Swing

My buddy Dax just gave me a few cool tracks from an album called Western Swing: Everybody’s Truckin’, by the Modern Mountaineers Panhandle Shuffle, by the Sons of the West Sundown Blues, by the Texas Wanderers All thoroughly danceable, nice strong rhythm and plenty of...
ABC Magazine Cover 1927 with a gorgeous Charleston Illustration

ABC Magazine Cover 1927 with a gorgeous Charleston Illustration

ABC, No. 342, Emmérico Nunes, February 3 1927, originally uploaded by Gatochy. The Charleston at the Bristol Club Dancing....