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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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...
Jumpin’ Jive: The Girls vs The Nicholas Brothers

Jumpin’ Jive: The Girls vs The Nicholas Brothers

If you ask ‘Who was the greatest flash act of the 1940s?’, a lot of people might suggest The Nicholas Brothers. Ok, fair enough. But I stumbled across a pretty wild clip of some high-kicking, full-splitting and fast-flipping ladies who show that it wasn’t just t...
Judging a Book By Its Cover: Tales of the Jazz Age

Judging a Book By Its Cover: Tales of the Jazz Age

Maybe the fact that F. Scott Fitzgerald has been one of my favorite authors since long before I discovered jazz dancing, goes to show that it was always in me, even if I didn’t know it yet. I don’t know if many of you know it, but I actually have a bachelor’s de...
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 ...
DJ Set List: Blues Dance, Buenos Aires Argentina, December 2009

DJ Set List: Blues Dance, Buenos Aires Argentina, December 2009

A short set I played at a cozy little Buenos Aires blues dance last week… Too Tight Blues, The New Orleans Wanderers, 1926 (106bpm) Mobile Blues, Duke Ellington, 1938 (80bpm) Feeling Good, Nina Simone (78bpm) Blues in the Dark, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, 1938 (86bpm) B...