Women dancing together
Lots of women dancing together.
At some point I’ll put together all the stuff from the 1939 World Fair.
low level crankiness
(A 1940 photo by Lucien Aigner from the corbis collection)
You know, photos of women dancing together are so common, I’m certain women dancing with women was far more common in the 30s and 40s (and 20s too I’d guess) than it is today. Y U SO BORING MODERN DANCERS?!
I bless the [...]
A bunch of Sydney peeps have just left for Korea. Because that is where the lindy hop is at. So this nice little drawing from a Korean kid is appropriate:
Image from inseduck.
And I liked this one:
It captures the feel of one of the best bits of this ‘RTSF [...]
Women’s History Month: *facepalm*
So you might have noticed a lack of WHM posts lately. Here is my litany of excuses:
- Hayfever has put me down for the last few days. Big time.
- We discovered a leak into the concrete slab of our flat last week, and have spent a week moving our ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF [...]
Sarah wrote this post Dance Teachers Shape the Lindy Hop Community in August last year, and it’s getting quite a bit of linky at the moment (mostly c/o Jerry’s FB page). I can’t believe I missed it when she posted it, but then I’m not really that surprised as I wasn’t exactly in the [...]
Women’s History Month: Maxine Sullivan!
Geez, these posts are becoming a real trial. I am just too busy. No, actually, I’m just too can’t be bothered to do one of these every day. I just feel as though I’m listing all the big name vocalists of the swing era. Boooring. I had intended to do lots of [...]
I’ve been interested in William H Whyte’s ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces for a while, mostly because it provides a nice jumping off place for talking about dancers and DJing, but also because there are some flaws in the work which make it worth revisiting occasionally. But I hadn’t realised there was [...]
This story about nameless creators and recipes reminds me so much of contemporary jazz and swing dance.
Recipes With No Name (Fabio Parasecoli Mar 09, 2012).
Another version of this really great, fun routine by a couple of arse kicking Canadian women.
BAM ALL UR JAZZ DANCE R BLEONG US!!11!
