A Typical Modern Jive Social Freestyle Evening. Lots of great dances from 8pm till 2am!
Workshop - Scarborough Weekend Oct - 2011
If memory serves me correctly the main part of the 1 hour workshop has finished. Jo & Mark are repeating the routine the dancers have just taught so that it can be practiced & put into the 'moves' memory bank!! There are a lot more moves than what you would learn in a typical weekly class. The group are mostly at an Intermediate level who know the basic beginner moves.
DANCE WORKSHOPS - GROUP
Grease (the film) dance routine 1 taught by Sheena. A fun workshop of 3 hours - we learnt 2 routines.
Modern Jive Intermediate Class - Smartdanceworks - 19th Feb 2011
Teacher Harry Cartwright with Viv showing some great variations that can be made to Beginner moves.
INFORMAL DEMO - March 20th 2011
This was a fun & informal demonstration of Modern Jive done to show how easy it is to put together a few moves. Modern Jive is very forgiving of 'mistakes' which can generally be made to look like you intended to do them. The secret for the 'lead' is never look surprised, go with what the follower does & for both of you ..... keep smiling & continue dancing!!
LINDY HOP
Below are a series of Lindy clips - don't be scared! Many of the wonderful clips below are of very high level dancers. I included them as they are just amazing to watch.
The clip directly below is one of my favourites - a competition showdown for who of the 5 couples is going to be 1st, 2nd & 3rd. They are all darned good as far as I'm concerned.
The Shim Sham demonstrated by Frankie Manning - a wonderful man I had the pleasure to meet many years ago. His enthusiasm for dance just shone out of him & is dancing was awesome - hope I'm still like that in my 80's!!
FUN STUFF
Here is a video clip of Tracey and the the girls doing their Thriller routine for the evening cabaret. Scarborough weekender Oct '10
SALSA
The gorgeous Rasa & Nicolai dancing some freestyle at The Cubana (Sheffield) - Saturday 26th Feb 2010.
Video clip of the 3 classes with some freestyle - The Cubana (Sheffield). Nicolai kindly did this demo specially for me & my reluctant memory cells!
WEST COAST SWING
When I saw this video clip i went a lovely shade of GREEN. Wonderful dancers - enjoy.
FUNNY STUFF
Evolution of Dance
Very clever, fun & seamlessly put together routine showing the evolution of dancing by comedian Judson Laipply.
This is an unbelievably cute clip of a toddler ballet dancer. In the words of Theresa McKeon "Oh for the love of God someone give this dancer a TAG point!" For info of an amazing teaching methodology called TAGteach visit www.tagteach.com
