http://fasca.net teachers and researchers of traditional jazz dance Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:31:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh Canada! I'll be flying north soon to Toronto for a weekend of Peabody, Charleston and Lindy Hop workshops. Easily one of our favorite places to dance (and perhaps the coldest locale we've ever taught in—New Year's weekend a few years back), Toronto is diverse, has a lot of good ... http://fasca.net/2008/09/15/toronto-dance-weekend/ For those interested in historical texts related to the Big Apple, here's one of two pamphlets that I know of about the dance. You'll really need to zoom in to read.[ipaper id="2269797" accesskey="key-2abjhncct8ml9dpxkvjp" secret_password="2ffgwn7yy4qrdcle5n1" height="765" width="500"/] http://fasca.net/2008/03/13/how-to-dance-the-big-apple/ Jam Cellar has invited us back to Washington, D.C. for their Big, Big Event (BBE) to teach a little Peabody. We are absolutely thrilled, particularly because the dance is in June. When we traveled there to teach in March, last year, we drove in near blizzard conditions (4.5 hour drive=11 ... http://fasca.net/2008/02/10/peabody-at-dcs-big-big-event/ Another piece of dance history will face the wrecking ball: Fazil's has closed Thursday to make way for another luxury hotel in New York. (We really need another one?) I called to book the space for a private lesson and learned the terrible news. Personally, Midori and I have great ... http://fasca.net/2008/02/09/fazils-closinghopefully-not-for-good/ Looking to get your groove on? Join me for some swinging good and hot jazz music and more at Yehoodi's Frim Fram. Thanks to the good folks at New York's venerable swing dance webiste (David Jacoby in particular), I'll be DJing on February 21! I'll have a little something for ... http://fasca.net/2008/02/06/djing-at-frim-fram/ Thanks to the lovely Cara, I've found a great place in Brooklyn to screen rare dance film clips from old Hollywood movies, newsreels, and Vitaphone shorts spanning the Jazz Age through the Rock n' Roll era. The place is Monkeytown. It's located in Williamsburg. I plan on showing rare footage of Vernon ... http://fasca.net/2007/12/31/dance-mad-film-clip-screening-from-jazz-age-to-rock-n-roll-era/ More than a year after the Savoy 80th anniversary celebration at the Alhambra Ballroom, I have finally managed to post (thanks to iMovie '08) the video tribute I put together as part of the festivities. The music video features Ella Fitzgerald (probably the Savoy's most famous musical export) and Louis ... http://fasca.net/2007/10/19/savoy-80-tribute-video/ In April 1999, American Movie Classics (AMC) aired an hour long special featuring neo-swing music and Lindy Hop. The Cherry Poppin' Daddies headlined the event, which was a concert given at the Supper Club in Midtown Manhattan. We were one of six couples invited to dance during the hour long ... http://fasca.net/2007/10/12/amc-swings-live-with-the-cherry-poppin-daddies/ Finally, we got around to sprucing up our video section. While we have wanted to update the formats and sizes of our clips and add a few more, we just didn't have the time. Luckily, Apple came out with iMovie '08, which made it substantially easier to pull together the ... http://fasca.net/2007/10/12/improved-and-new-video-section/ Hard to believe that American Lindy Hop Championships (ALHC) will celebrate a decade of great dancing this year. Then again, it's hard to believe our son Indy is 15 months old. That's a lot of 5-6-7-8s. Anyway, we are thrilled to be back at ALHC this year and are excited ... http://fasca.net/2007/10/04/teaching-peabody-at-the-american-lindy-hop-championships/