This weekend was an incredible warmup for Blues Masquerade next weekend! Everyone had such an incredible time!
The weekend started out with Rocket City Jazz Orchestra and the Four Star Orchestra battling it out at Bridge Street. A bunch of dancers came out and we couldn't have asked for better music or a more beautiful night! There is nothing quite like dancing to a big band under the stars!
Congratulations to all the HSDS dancers who competed at Jubilee Jazz. I don't think Huntsville has ever competed so much in a swing event. Tabitha Bassett, Gabriel Bassett, Huy Huynh, Briana Austin McIntire, Paul Fryer, and Rob Murphy all competed. Huy placed in everything he entered (well, finals in invitational J&J), Tabitha took first in Open J&J with Paul taking third, and Huy and Briana took first in the blues comp. What an incredible showing and hopefully a preview of whats to come in HSDS competing!
Saturday Beginner Lesson: Beginning Lindy Hop
Lindy Hop is a dance based on a fantastic single move: the swingout. This class is designed to get you swinging out comfortably as soon as possible! Breanna and Huy will teach you all you need to know about triple steps, the swingout pattern, leading and following, and even a few simple moves to throw into your dance. This is where the fun all starts!
Breanna Perry
Breanna loves pretty much everything about pretty much every vintage jazz/vernacular folk/really old/swing-era dance there is, ever. Goofy animal dances? She loves 'em. Swingin' out hard and fast? Just try and stop her. Messing around with chuggy charleston patterns? She can't get enough. Melty and stretchy blues dances, long-legged peabody, fancy-footed balboa, she enjoys all of it. And one of her favorite things is when she gets the chance to share all of those favorite things with other people! In classes, she's known to focus on technique in a nerdy way, such as comparing dancers' arms to triangles' hypotenuses or trying to air-graph movement intensities. Breanna's absolute favorite, though, is when everyone just gets together to thrown down and have fun!
Swing Dancers, too long have we ignored the plight of those who cannot swing. Now is our chance to do something about it! I give you, ZERO TO SWING! We will bring swing to those who do not have it! Help us find the yearning, the willing! We will show them the joy that is swing dance!
Event Date and Time:
July 16, 2011 - 10:00am - July 17, 2011 - 11:00pm
Location:
Flying Monkey Arts Center, Lowe Mill, 2211 Seminole Drive, Huntsville, AL
It may have taken a whole weekend but May even topped the outstanding April Smith dance! What an incredibly mash-up of dancing. We started on Miss Tess at the Monkey, worked our way through JoHo, the Knights, Christa, a Barron, and landed on the mountain with Rob Murphy.
Huy's starting lessons back up with the new year. January will be a chance shore up your solid 6 count swing along with some new moves. February is time to add in lindy hop. In March we'll look back at the two months and compare the 6 count vs the 8 count swing. This will be the month that puts it all together!
Huy may be the best lindy lead in town. His rock solid basics, wonderful musicality, and great moves make him the perfect place to improve your dance!
Event Date and Time:
Repeats every week until Mon May 02 2011 .
January 3, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
January 10, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
January 17, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
January 24, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
January 31, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
February 7, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
February 14, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
February 21, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
February 28, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
March 7, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
March 14, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
March 21, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
March 28, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
April 4, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
April 11, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
April 18, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
April 25, 2011 - 7:50pm - 8:50pm
Location:
UAH Fitness Center, Corner of Holmes Ave and Loop Rd
The Auburn University Swing Dance Association is hosting our second swing dancing workshop! This workshop is going to be focusing on Lindy Hop and partner Charleston but there will also be intro classes in Blues and solo Charleston. The levels will range from beginner to intermediate. If you know how to swing out, or you don't, come out and we'll show you what to do with your dancing shoes.
Event Date and Time:
January 14, 2011 - 7:00pm - January 15, 2011 - 6:00pm
Chapter 1
The Huntsville Swing Dance Society started swinging in 1995 when Paul Wieland and a few friends began meeting at Gorin’s Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop on the corner of Washington and Clinton Streets in Huntsville. Free dances to recorded music, of classic and neo-swing bands, were held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.
You know, we normally expect the DJ dances to be a bit more low key. More so for a summer dance. More so for a dance not on our normal day
Swing Dancers, too long have we ignored the plight of those who cannot swing. Now is our chance to do something about it! I give you, ZERO TO SWING! We will bring swing to those who do not have it! Help us find the yearning, the willing! We will show them the joy that is swing dance!
It may have taken a whole weekend but May even topped the outstanding April Smith dance! What an incredibly mash-up of dancing. We started on Miss Tess at the Monkey, worked our way through JoHo, the Knights, Christa, a Barron, and landed on the mountain with Rob Murphy.