lindyboi

Harry & Svetlana babysat for our Friday night Lindy dancing this week. The 'watch the birdie' choreography looked fantastic so I'm pretty sorry I missed out.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 10:29

Me, Vix, CB & Rob travelled down to Sheffield for Sue's Aerials workshop. Plenty of footage here.
     
counter-balance dip          Floor Lift                               Tricks sequence

   
Shoulder balance drop     with Rob & CB                     Whole lot by Sue & Tim

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 00:26

This week at our regular Leeds Friday night Lindy dance classes we had...

our 1st Friday rehearsal for this year's LUU Dance Show 'Americano' routine. Lucy and Al looking fantastic here.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 01:13

    Gosh it was fantastic! 21 of the LUU Swingsoc went down to Joe & Trisha's camp near Hertford this year. Even us seasoned camp go-ers thought it was the best camp we'd been to.
   Plenty of big names like Bill Borgida & Peter Loggins, this years US Lindy Champs Todd & Naomi, last years 2nd place Olivier & Carole & crazy Dax Hock (of scuba lindy fame) from Japan to name but a few.
   CB danced with just about every advanced teacher and Ranj got asked for a 2nd dance with the Belgian performance champ. I wasn't jealous.

   It had some romance, some bitchiness, spot of drama. Cars broke down, folks got lost, we all slept late, ate big breakfasts and someone even got a snog. There was A LOT of hair-straightening, some uncomfortably close blues dancing, and a bloke in a skirt., The boys trying to get into the girls rooms and the girls resisting (but not so hard as to put them off). A fantastic time had by all I reckon. We did the occasional bit of dancing.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 22:24 | Comments (4294967294) | Trackbacks (2)

    It's all been fairly hectic on the Leeds Lindy Dance scene of late!

    We had our biggest ever turn out for Sue Freeman's visit to LindyFridays last week. Hope we're doing something right. Some excellent dances with all the new follows. I was fair knackered by half time & I forgot my camera so couldn't get their moves captured for here on the blog, darn-it-all!

    A break from Fridays this week for the Goodnight Sweetheart dance camp in Hertford with all the Uni kids.

    There's been a ruck on the forum! Out of the positive responses to the Dark Town Strutters Ball we got some open and frank feedback from some of the out-of-town Lindy folks. It's been quiet enough on there since Lindy@theLight, but there's been some  fair action over the last week. For the history books I reckon Al fired the first shot  ;o) and then people kind of just reacted...quite strongly...right there on a public forum. I hadn't realised there was any bad feeling in our scene but at least now it's getting said.

    It's really made us think about our contribution to the Lindy scene and we're still hopeful of some common ground with the rest of Leeds Lindy. I just hope they keep talking to us so we get a chance to figure it all out.

    We're hatching a plan to get a couple of our favourite teachers up for a workshop. Never run one of these before so it'll be all learning. Teachers we currently fancy for this is Hasse & Marie. They taught us at Herrang last year and we loved 'em! Do hope we can make it happen.

    At the moment I'm cast in the LUU Dance Show coming up (8th-10th March). Not available for many rehearsals and have to pick up some new aerials for it but excited nonetheless. Love those kids.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 23:41 | Comments (4294967295) | Trackback (1)