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I’ve blogged in the past about my appreciation for dance in advertising, and now along comes one of the best yet. I confess I don’t really get what this has to do with Guinness, but more power to them. It’s pretty wonderful all on it’s own so I’m happy to spread it around. The dancing […]
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Swing dancing has a wide range of styles because it’s a street dance, constantly changing with the creativity of the dancers. Slides are tricky steps. They’re not that common, due to the difficulty in executing them properly. You’ll only see them performed by advanced dancers, and they’re always show stoppers. If you’re a bay area […]
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A relatively new dance venue for the Swing crowd has opened in SF. It’s in a Market Street bar called “Local Edition. Only half a block from BART, it’s easy to get to from Oakland, and the music starts at 8:00 on Tuesday nights. I can dance for a couple of hours, leave at 10, […]
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Ever notice how when you notice something, you seem to see it everywhere? A while back I wrote a series of posts about fusion dance, a phenomena in which two different dance styles are “fused” together. Last week on my facebook page I added recent example of Swango that was particularly beautiful. No sooner did […]
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Today my friend and mentor Frankie Manning would have turned 102. If you’re a dancer, you would have been delighted if you used google and noticed the google doodle honoring Frankie’s birthday. Several people brought this to my attention, which is all to the good, because although I missed the pleasure of seeing it by […]
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My Lindy History Last week I got to be on a panel at an event at City College in SF called “Bay Area Lindy Legends”. More than a couple of decades ago, few people in the bay area had heard of Lindy Hop and you certainly couldn’t go Lindy Hopping if you were the rare […]
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Until now this blog has been focused on anything having to do with dance, and it will continue to do so. However, it will also have a local focus on the San Francisco Bay Area where I live and what’s happening in my own community. Swing Dance in Oakland Today’s entry is about Swing Dancing […]
Continue readingI’ve blogged in the past about tap dancers, and I’ve also written about dancing on skates, but a recent facebook post of Gene Kelly tap dancing on skates inspired me to write this post. I’ve also written about fusion, the blending of two dance styles. This has got to be the mother of all fusion. […]
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My friend Stu Sweetow, videographer extraordinaire, sent me the picture at the right with the excellent phrase, “Real men take dance lessons, because you can’t learn connection on youtube!” This inspired me to once again take up my blog, which my many fans have no doubt noticed I have let slip for several months due […]
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