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   Those of you who attend our Friday night dance classes will know them well, but this Sunday they branching out from their Leeds base and teaching a Beginners Lindy Workshop (arranged in conjuction with Team Hull) out in the sunny port of Hull by the sea. More about it all here.

   I can't reccommend them more highly. The most fun you can have without a bouncy castle. Tuition so good it could even save lives and bring world peace. Guaranteed to increase your sex appeal, career prospects, cures most common ailments and even removes stubborn stains. Bring your laundry along. £3 the lot!

Northern Academy of Performing Arts, Anlaby Rd (town end), Hull

1pm-4pm

For further info contact Jane on 07968 787865

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 15:49

Finished at last. Several edits until I'd remembered everyone who should have been in it and included all my favourite footage. Apologies it's taken until April this year. We had computer problems since we were so ambitious with it this year. Do hope you enjoy it and big thanks again to all those who made it happen. Hope it's brings back some good memories for you. Did for me! Looking forward to it all again in another 8 months ;o)

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 01:31

   The Future Sounds of Swing 

     Another exciting first for Leeds. Al & CB have master-minded a fantastic Lindy dance camp right here in Leeds for folks from Leeds and all over  the country with some world class teachers and a big Satrurday night dance in the middle of it all. It's got Joe & Trisha from GNSH in Hertford, Daniel & Sandra all the way from Sweden. You'd be crazy not to!
   Plenty news being added all the time on their futuresoundsofswing site. If you are a student make sure you book soon. This size of  event has never come to Leeds before and it's an opportunity not to be missed.
   Bookings open up to non-students as of Easter Sunday! £20 for students, £30 for non-students.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 21:48

Good send off for our last Friday night swing dance for this term. Fun and challenging routines from Al & Tim
 
Slow number                      Faster number

Another visit from Team Hull. We're hoping for a trip over there soon for some Lindy.
Al showed off her new birthday present.


...and a birthday Jam circle for Danni and a very blushing Ella.


Start back again for another 10 weeks on 27th April

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 13:24

A very different Friday night at the Swarthmore centre with a rare visit from one of America's freshest new Lindy talents, Andrew Sutton.
 
with special one off performance of 'Americano' by the LUU SwingSoc kids (where I manage to throw Lucy on the floor. Sorry Lucy).

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 12:41

each night @ 7.30pm at the Lupton School for girls

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 14:21

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

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 12:40

   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.
 

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 10:21

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.

Posted by josephcasey in Lindy at 01:48

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.

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    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.

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     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.
    We had our Leeds Friday night Lindy Dance crowd, folks from Joyce's Thursday night Woodhouse classes, Jenny & Stuart's gang from out in Menston, the Sheffield lot, Keith from Manchester, Andy Mooney & Liz and plenty of others I'd never seen before.
    All credit to Harry & Svetlana for getting all these folks in the same room. We just can't wait for the next one.

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