DANCE
Many years ago now, I started to learn how to dance properly. I could thrash around on the dance floor better than most, but I wanted to be able to dance with people instead of just near them. For three years I enjoyed modern jive at my local Ceroc® club, but I felt that there was more that could be done with dance. I noticed that the better keener dancers were sneaking off to do some mysterious other dance called "Lindy hop". I joined them, and after a while became a convert, body and soul. Now I teach swing dance and do what I can to spread the joy of hep cat ways.
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You may like to know about where I teach swing dance, and how you can contact me and get me to come and teach you. Now with added CV! |
I've uploaded a few videos I made on dance subjects to YouTube. Find them here. |
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| Here I have set out some of my views of partner dancing. These include the Ten Commandments of Social Dance. Golly. |
You may be wondering what "Lindy hop" actually is. Many of the terms in swing dancing are used rather vaguely, including "swing" itself. This should make things a bit less unclear. | |
Again and again I spend my summers in a tiny village in Sweden which for four weeks each year becomes the world's centre for swing dance. Read all about it. | |
| A page with a quick history of the music, plus a discussion of what makes swing music swing, and some recommended listening. | |
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| Here you can read a page I've put together about my modern jiving past with the people of the Ceroc® franchises. It includes a few of my better photographs of dancers dancing. |
How can a dancer such as I, plagued as I am of course with hordes of adorers, keep cool? |
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Of interest only to people who know me. Weird, though. | |
Lloydian modesty finally defeated. |
Because I was asked ever so nicely, I now present a link to a young site listing swing dance events in Britain: Swing Junction.
And now for a link to the site of another Lindy hopper from Newcastle: swingjive.co.uk
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