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 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...
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, ...
Near-death end of song almost-collision with our buddies Nick & Nina in the Invitational Strictly Lindy at Lonestar Championships 2010, beautifully captured by Igor Roshchin. Sometimes hitting the end of a song is more important than floorcraft…...
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...
