teachers and researchers of traditional jazz dance
Slow, slow, quick, quick may be the modern rhythm of the foxtrot, but the dances roots in the Twenties suggest a looser, more improvisational approach to syncopation and style. While era dance manuals do not present a complete record of the dance, they do provide a window to the dance. What era dance manuals suggest is a dance much different than one done today. We teach steps drawn from our collection of era dance manuals.
Posted on January 21st, 2005 by chad
We perform and teach popular and historical social dances of the Jazz Age and Swing Era and have appeared on stage, independent film, and local and national television. Known for our performance and our research of social dancing, we also consult and choreograph for period productions, particularly those set in the Roaring Twenties. Though we do not regularly compete, we have placed in a number of competitions, including 1st in the 2004 American Lindy Hop Championships Fast Dance division.