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Swing Toronto (a.k.a. Odd Socks) Homepage! We are friendly and experienced producers of
dance events in Toronto, including
Saturday Night Swing and special event dance weekends with
some of the world's best partner dance teachers. |
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Come to
Saturday Night Swing every Saturday Night featuring a great line-up of swing bands,
plus beginner dance classes before the dance party!
Come to
Mostly Waltz - a new Toronto dance series
one Friday Night a month featuring excellent live music
great for waltzes and other partner dances!
Frankie Manning Celebration Night Saturday May 9,
details at the Swing Schedule.
Frankie Manning obituary in New York Times May 26, 1914 -
April 27, 2009
Kevin St.
Laurent & Emily "Jo" Hoffberg Lindy Hop Weekend June 5-6-7, 2009,
Toronto!!! Kevin and Jo are amazing world renowned Lindy Hop teachers, dancers, champions
and performers. They are invited to teach and perform around the world.
Click the Kevin & Emily button to your left for details.
Videos of Kevin and of Jo:
Kevin St.
Laurent &
Emily
Hoffberg |
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Kevin St. Laurent & Emily "Jo" Hoffberg the world renowned
Lindy Hop teachers, dancers, performers and champions coming to
Toronto June 5-6-7!!! |
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Kevin & Emily ("Jo") |
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| Saturday Night
Swing |
Mostly Waltz -
Dances & Lessons |
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Saturday Night Live Band Swing at Dovercourt House
featuring some of the best live swing bands anywhere, excellent beginner
dance lessons, and more! Everyone welcome. Big sprung wood dance
floors, charming dance halls, licensed!
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Come to
Mostly Waltz
held
usually
on the first Fridays of the month. We teach and do what we consider to be the
best and most fun Waltz styles in history from the early 1800s to new
developments happening today. Contact us for private lessons in waltz. |
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| Film clips of Lindy Hop, Charleston and
Peabody:
Let's Make
Music featuring Dean Collins & Jewel McGowan 1939/40 (Lindy Hop),
Ghost
Catchers 1944 (Lindy Hop), Caitlin & Peter 2005
(Lindy Hop),
Chad &
Midori 2004 (Peabody & Charleston),
Swing Me
Brother Swing with Natalie & Yuval 2004 (Lindy Hop),
Hot
Chocolate featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and Duke Ellington 1941 (Lindy
Hop),
Mulholland
Drive 2001 (Lindy Hop scene at the start of the movie),
Hellzapoppin' 1942 featuring Whitey's Lindy
Hoppers (Lindy Hop),
Groovie Movie 1943/1944 (Lindy Hop),
Rip It Up
1956 (Lindy Hop),
Candyman
music video 2006 (Lindy Hop),
Savoy Ballroom Tribute put together 2006 (slow to load),
Camp
Jitterbug Lindy Hop finals 2008,
Natalie
& Yuval 2006 (Lindy Hop),
Natalie & Yuval Clowns Routine 2006 (Lindy Hop),
Kevin &
Emily 2008. For more film and video footage of Lindy Hop and related dances
from 1914 to the present see Lindy Hop Film and Video Footage at the Dance Links page. (Click on
the Dance Links button to your left.) Film footage
of waltz and polka social dancing: Social dancing at Gaskells Balls in
Oakland, California -
Polka
(October 2005),
Waltz (October 2005),
Waltz (December 2006);
Social
Dance Irregulars Ball in 2003 in Pasdena, California;
Viennese
Waltz outdoors in front of Stanford Memorial Church, California (2006). |
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