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 dancers, and is home to Tim Hudson (as in Timothy’s donuts and coffee). 

For full details about the workshops, visit OddSocks.org.

Posted on September 15th, 2008 by chad

What do you get when you mix the movements and partnership of Lindy Hop with the syncopations of Rhythm Tap? We call it LindyHoofin’. At times, it’s Lindy Hop infused with Tap. At times, it’s Tap enriched with Lindy. The hoof/hop blend grew out of our rehearsals and tap practices. We had been working on each dance in separate rehearsals; however, gradually these rehearsals began to intermingle and so did the dances. At first, Tap steps and syncopation would drop into our Lindy Hop quite accidentally. Then the music began to drive the dropped heels, flaps, slaps, shuffles and stomps, until they became an integral part of our dancing.

Posted on January 21st, 2005 by chad