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The influence of Frankie Manning on my lindy hop history
By dogpossum On 6th May, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In brisbane, djing, lindy hop and other dances, lolfrankie, melbourne, sydney, teaching
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 [...]
Women’s History Month: some thoughts at day 6
By dogpossum On 6th March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In djing, learning, lindy hop and other dances, lolfrankie, melbourne, menz, music, people i know, research, same sex dancing, wimminz, Women in History 2012
It’s women’s history month again, and I’m listing a different woman musician from the first half of the century every day (as I explain here). Last year I did a different woman dancer every day, and that was super great fun. I’m enjoying the women musicians, but I haven’t really had [...]
Bizarrely, they came from this Preservation Hall Jazz Band album: “Preservation: An album benefitting Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program”. It’s a great album, and I had it on my ‘must play’ list for the weekend. I was pretty sure no one else would be DJing from it – [...]
is this your cat?, originally uploaded by dogpossum.
We saw this piece of A4 paper sticky taped to a pole in Balmain. There were hundreds of them. It’s a very Balmain type of poster. I couldn’t quite believe what I was reading. At the top [...]
On the blues
By dogpossum On 6th December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In herrang, lindy hop and other dances, music
Bwaahahahahahahahahaah!
This is gold. I can’t explain all the levels of humour and piss-taking, because it’s all a bit complicated. But you can just watch this ‘straight’, as though it were a serious documentary. Because it is.
My favourite part: “[that music] was very racey. We called ‘em race records”
MLX squee
By dogpossum On 4th December, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, lindy hop and other dances, melbourne, music
I’m trying and trying to think of a way to talk about MLX. But I can’t. I’m sorry, I’m getting emotional. Mostly because you can’t hug every DJ. No matter how much you love them.
Right here, I need to make clear my association with the Melbourne Lindy Exchange. I was involved [...]
IMGP6151_rainbow-lorikeet, originally uploaded by RaeAllen.
It’s spring here in Sydney (well, summer, technically), and that means flowers and pollen and snot. We’re in a temperate/subtropical zone, near the coast, and we get masses and masses of rain in the spring and autumn months. The European seasons [...]
Just as I finished posting that last ranty mcrantington rant about DJing (NEEDS MOAR DJS ? (part 2) (Thursday, November 17th, 2011)) there was a flurry of emailing and suddenly, DJing in Sydney gets very interesting. This is a post about getting into DJing in Sydney. Which is suddenly, thanks to the generosity of [...]
NEEDS MOAR DJS ? (part 2)
By dogpossum On 17th November, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, lindy hop and other dances, melbourne, music, sydney
(photo of Trev and I ‘DJing’ at MLX8 by scott_aus)
This post is the second of two. In the first part (NEEDS MOAR DJS ? (part 1)) I rambled on about Sydney’s DJing culture at the moment, particularly in reference to its social dancing culture and [...]
NEEDS MOAR DJS ? (part 1)
By dogpossum On 17th November, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In djing, lindy hop and other dances, melbourne, music, sydney
In this post I ramble on about Sydney’s DJing culture at the moment, particularly in reference to its social dancing culture and basic demographics. It began as a huge post, but has split into two. The second one (NEEDS MOAR DJS ? (part 2)) spends a bit of time talking about why DJing sucks [...]
