Steve and little Helen visit from Sheffield to teach our Leeds Friday night Swing dance classes this week. Lovely aerobics style warm-up and beginners and intermediate class packed full of moves we don't often see in Leeds.
Beginners Routine Intermediates Routine
The gang from Hull who regularly visit our Leeds Fridays night Lindy classes have been getting together in the park back in Hull each Sunday afternoon to Lindy for all the ducks.
They're showing pretty good form too in a video they sent us.
A visit from the University Swing Kids this week before our regular Leeds Friday night Swing Dance Classes, to practice on their Aerials and run through the Americano routine for next weeks LUU DanceShow.
Followed by some lovely classes with Al & Fiona
Beginners Intermediates
and a first visit from some blues dancers from Huddersfield.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Not the new fella at Lindy but the comedian from back in the 80's. Gotta love him
What an excellent night. The Mike Booth Big Band were just fantastic to dance to and the turn out was a veritable who's-who of Lindy in the North with more Lindy dancers in the same place than I think Leeds has ever seen in recent years. Saw this on Digg. Thought I saw through the 1st illusion but the 2nd is proper good.
This week at our regular Leeds Friday night Lindy dance classes we had...
Jo & CB with some 8 beat Beginners and Intermediate classes focussing on lateral frame for the follow. Even a little drop for the lead at the end.
and as ever some mucking about. This time it's breakdancing from Pat & CB
So Al claims to be trying to train herself to sneeze "Ka-Pow" (presumably for something to do) which tickled me. Surely it's not possible?! A workmate says their mom sneezes god's name each time and was taught to do this since a kid. 
I'm sure it's some elaborate hoax but I'm pretty fascinated. We could all use a cooler sneeze!
Vix has started having a go at this, managing only 'Ha-Koo' .Already I'm envious. I'll be gutted if Al cracks this and I'm not in even in training, so I've had a go but sneeze so rarely it's tricky.
One chance I had today , I made a slightly different sound but felt like I'd dislocated my face. Worried that it's dangerous to mess with that much pressure. A sneeze comes out at up 120mph I'm reliably informed. I hope Al & Vix are taking care.
The old cat-in-a-washing-machine gag which you'll enjoy if you're a bit cruel like me
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