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...
Here’s that snippet of a black couple dancing in the 1944 film Go Down Death that I mentioned to some people recently. Juan stumbled across a compilation clip someone had thrown together on YouTube, and the first half of it was all vintage burlesque from Harlem, so he was s...
And what a pretty face! Oh dear me! Anyway, very proud to be on this year’s Camp Jitterbug flyer and on the website header: www.campjitterbug.com The photo on the flyer was taken during my tribute act to Josephine Baker in last year’s Jump Session show. Josephine is, ...
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...
I’m recovering now from the charming Provence Swing Festival, in France. Here’s two videos – first, of our brand new Lindy Classic routine, and second, of a short feather fan dance I did. The classic routine is to Scram, by Fats Waller. Enjoy!...
Damn, I just realized how lame I am. I didn’t blog about the International Lindy Hop Championships at all!! Well, actually I did post up some photos over at SwingFashionista.com, but that’s not what I’m talking about… I’m talking about The Killer Dil...
1939 New York World’s Fair Savoy Ballroom Exhibit Souvenir Program My boyfriend was in a vintage clothing store recently, and bought himself an antique souvenir tie clip from the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933 (aka The Century of Progress Exposition). It reminded me tha...
Maybe I’m just the last swing dancer in the world to have seen this little Herrang creation from way back in 2004, but it’s just adorable, I had to post it: Recorded at the Herrang Dance Camp in 2004. Nikolas “Lloyd” Lloyd and Mindi “Mindi” Lun...
My burlesque company in Australia, Sugar Blue Burlesque, has just released a series of five instructional DVDs, including a 3-volume Burlesque series (featuring myself, plus the other Sugar Blue Burlesque instructors!), as well as my very own “1920s Charleston & Other Vintage...
As promised, here’s that list of Top 10 Leader Pet Peeves (as per a survey I took recently) that we worked on in my Following Technique Clinic this weekend at Southern Belle Swing Bash in Atlanta. We worked through some drills, tests and exercises to see if we were perpetra...
