teachers and researchers of traditional jazz dance
At the 2000 American Lindy Hop Championships, we performed our blend of Lindy Hop and Rhythm Tap, what we call LindyHoofin’ to Slam Stewarts’ rendition of Moten Swing. While we were disqualified from the Cabaret division, the performance earned us a DQ award from Yehoodi.com, the website of New York’s Lindy Hop community.
Posted on February 12th, 2005 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
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.