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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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...
Face of Camp Jitterbug 2010!

Face of Camp Jitterbug 2010!

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, ...
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...
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...
Holiday in Paris!

Holiday in Paris!

My mum and I just decided to have a holiday in Paris, a few weeks from now! Woopee! After the Provence Swing Festival in a few weeks time, I’m going to abandon Juan and flit off to gay Paree to meet ma mere and trip the light fantastic for a week, before heading on to [...]...
The Berry Brothers

The Berry Brothers

Rusty Frank has written a short, but truly lovely biography of The Berry Brothers, for the American National Biography Online.  The Killer Dillers might just be The Berry Brothers’ biggest fans, as you may have figured out. So what a nice excuse to post a few videos. Here&#...
My DVDs are finally available!

My DVDs are finally available!

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...
SwingFashionista.com

SwingFashionista.com

I have a new blog, collaboratively with a group of other swing dancing ladies, called SwingFashionista.com It’s a blog and look book, about swing fashion – both swing era vintage (1920s, 30s & 40s), and also those special fashions that sweep through the swing comm...