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 October 2011
Show in Bologna Italy, June 2010

Show in Bologna Italy, June 2010

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Girl Jam DVD

Instructor: Sharon Davis Total Length: 1 hour 15 minutes DVD Format: DVD-R NTSC (no country or region code restrictions) Join international Lindy Hop and solo charleston sensation Sharon Davis (and her dashing assistant, Kevin St. Laurent!) for girls-only lessons that every Lindy...
1920s Charleston & Other Vintage Jazz Dances DVD

1920s Charleston & Other Vintage Jazz Dances DVD

Instructor: Sharon Davis Total Length: 1 hour 30 minutes DVD Format: PAL (no country code or region restrictions) Please be aware that this DVD is in the Australian standard PAL format (not NTSC), but has no country code or region restrictions. Therefore it will play on ALL compu...
Stompology Stompoff!

Stompology Stompoff!

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...
Barswingona 2010 Jazz Choreography

Barswingona 2010 Jazz Choreography

Well done to all the ladies in my jazz classes at Barswingona 2010 in Barcelona a few weeks ago. I had such fun, you were absolute troopers learning so much choreography in such a tinsy tiny amount of time, and then getting up in front of hundreds of other dancers and performing!...
London Girls Jazz Classes: Edited Songs

London Girls Jazz Classes: Edited Songs

As promised, here are the final song edits for both the Josephine Baker routine (Golden Wedding, by Woody Herman), and the jazz routine (Lucy Brown, by The Larks), for those lovely London ladies to download: Josephine Baker Routine Song Edit Jazz Routine Song Edit (Lucy Brown) Ja...
Lonestar Championships, Austin Texas

Lonestar Championships, Austin Texas

Just had to share a few of these wonderful photographs that David Holmes took this past weekend in Austin, Texas for the Lonestar Championships. It was one of those mad and magical dance weekends, that sometimes can’t be captured in photos, but actually David has really man...
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...
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....
1920s Charleston

1920s Charleston

My new enormous 1920s Charleston compilation, with more vintage footage of the Charleston than you can shake a stick at (as we would say in Australia). See if you can spot these dancers: Joan Crawford, Leon James, Josephine Baker, Al Minns, Frankie Manning, Ginger Rogers, Pepsi B...