Things I don’t have time to write about, but want to:
1. Creating your own personal flava flave as a dancer. Not in the sense of ‘finding your own style’, but in the sense of finding your unique body part/shape/movement/whatever, refining and exaggerating it. I want to talk about this in terms of gender and [...]
Dance is like a block of chocolate
I have some things I want to say about the intersection of dance and audio-visual media, but I don’t have time to make a whole, proper argument. Fuck, I took 100 000 words to talk about these issues in my phd dissertation, so I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to write about this succinctly.
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The influence of Frankie Manning on my lindy hop history
As I mentioned in the Frankie Fest post the other day, we’re teaching Frankie Manning themed classes this month at our weekly class. That means Frankie Manning themed lindy hop in the first class, and then Frankie Manning themed solo dance in the second class. Although making the distinction between the two seems [...]
‘New’ music for lindy hopping from dogpossum on 8tracks.
This is (part of) a set I did last week. I wanted to combine some new stuff (the New Sheiks in particular) with some very familiar stuff (Now You Has Jazz), [...]
We’re teaching a heap of Frankie stuff in classes this month, in the lead up to his birthday on the 26th May. Last night it was pecks in promenade, points and other important things. Teaching these steps I was struck by just how complex and wonderful they are for new dancers. Pecking gets a lot [...]
Blues sampler from dogpossum on 8tracks.
I did some blues DJing last night. Here are some songs from that set. Not entirely in order. It’s really just a bunch of women singing. That’s ok by me.
Hear Me Talking [...]
Make your charleston look like this:
(Frankie Manning — Charleston — Spirit Moves (1950))
or like this:
(Charleston — Original Al & Leon Style!!)
Yeah, you’re actually kicking there. The kicks are cool.
I am going to write a proper review of this CD, and was going to wait til I got back from Jumptown Jam (imma leaving in a few hours) to write it, but I couldn’t wait. I’ve listened to the first half of this album, and I know I’ll be playing the shit out [...]
Morning reminder: be more orsm
(The Snowball 2011 – Performances – Two Cousins)
A performancing referencing
Which is of course referencing
