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Swing Toronto
email list. Sign up for our elist and we will send you our weekly
newsletter about upcoming Swing Toronto events, and the latest news about
Saturday Night Swing, Friday Blues, Rock'n Roll Fridays, and special events in
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mostlyw@gmail.ca and ask to be put on
the Mostly Waltz elist. We will keep you updated about Waltz Dance Parties,
Courses and Workshops |
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Contact
Swing Toronto
(Odd Socks)
re Dance Lessons, Dance Workshops, Dance Performances,
Special Events, Presentations,
Shows, Wedding dance lessons.
Performances and shows: We (Swing Toronto, Odd
Socks, Mostly Waltz) do dance shows - Swing, Lindy Hop and Rock'n Roll
dancing with swing dance acrobatics (air steps), Waltz and 19th century partner
dancing, Ragtime dance, 1920s and Swing Era Dance!
Recommended Swing Dance (Lindy Hop) schools in Toronto offering
progressive weeknight dance classes:
| Bees Knees Dance
Study (Mandi Gould, Caitlin, Phil, Jasper, Arthur, Heather, Glen, et al) (Lindy Hop, Charleston, Blues Dance, Swing Era and 20s Jazz, Rock'n Roll, performance groups,
weeknight classes, private lessons) |
| Arthur Lulu (Luluhop) (Lindy
Hop, Charleston, Blues) Affiliated with Bees Knees Dance Study |
| Sugar Shaker
(Joanna and Lawrence) (Lindy Hop, Charleston, 20s and Swing Era
Jazz, Blues, Balboa, Monday night classes, private lessons |
| Swingin'OUT (Toronto's
Queer Lindy Hop and Swing Dance Club, classes and more) |
Waltz Instructors in Toronto (with a broad historical and contemporary
perspective)
| Mostly Waltz
mostlyw@gmail.ca (Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Cross-step Waltz, 19th
century partner dancing, Ragtime partner dancing, One Step, Peabody). |
The umbrella community organization for Lindy Hop in Toronto
Other swing groups in Toronto
Lindy Hop film and video footage
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Vintage Lindy footage (the Groovie Movie, Jive, Jitterbug and Hellzapoppin'
film footage is Lindy Hop, and the other film footage shows dances related to
Lindy Hop, click on full screen to enlarge) |
| Nathalie &
Yuval (recent, contemporary),
Swing Me
Brother Swing 2004 |
| Midori & Chad
(recent, contemporary - Lindy Hop, Peabody, Charleston) |
| Kevin
& Carla (recent, contemporary),
Dance
Fever 2005,
Bei Mir
Bist du Schoen 2003 |
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Caitlin & Peter 2006 |
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Savoy Ballroom Tribute put together 2006 (slow to load). |
| Candyman
music video 2006. |
| Texas
Tommy Swing circa 1914 (Earliest known film footage of swing dancing - a
silent film showing Afro-Americans doing the Texas Tommy or Texas Tommy Swing
circa 1914 in California. They do the Texas Tommy in the second half
of the film clip (the partner dance with two people) - there is more to this
film but the rest is not online as far as we know. Texas Tommy is believed to be the first swing dance.
There is a direct line of development from 1911 Texas Tommy in California to
1927 Lindy Hop in New York City. |
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After Seben 1928 (with Shorty George, sometimes called the father of Lindy
Hop, and other Lindy Hoppers - earliest
known film footage of Lindy Hop, other than a 1927 film clip not publicly
available as far as we know) |
| A Bundle
of Blues early 1930s (Florence Hill & Bessie Dudley dance in last two
minutes of the film) -just the
Florence
& Bessie dance sequence from the film clip |
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Shorty George & Big Bea 1937 (Shorty's other main dance partner was
Little Bea) |
| Day at
the Races 1937 (Marx Brothers & Whitey's Lindy Hoppers) |
| Let's
Make Music 1939/40 (Dean Collins & Jewel McGowan, Lindy Hop) |
| Hot
Chocolates 1941 (Whitey's Lindy Hoppers) |
| Pot O
Gold 1941 (Jewel & other Lindy Hoppers) |
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Hellzapoppin' 1942 (Whitey's Lindy Hoppers)
Hellzapoppin'
(shorter) |
| Chool
Song 1942 (Dean & Jewel, some Lindy Hop) |
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Roll Em 1942 (Dean & Jewel, and other Lindy Hoppers) |
| The Power
Girl (1942?) |
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Boy What a Girl 1943 |
| Swing
Fever 1943 Dean Collins & Jewel M. (and one other dancer) |
| Groovie
Movie 1943/1944 (Lindy Hoppers) |
| The Baby
Boogie (1943/44, Dean & Jewel, and other Lindy Hoppers) |
| Ghost
Catchers 1944 (Lindy Hop) |
| Jammin
The Blues 1944 (Marie Bryant sings and Lindy Hops) |
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Sensations of 1945 (Lindy Hop scene) |
| Al Minns
& Leon James Charleston demo in 1950s documentary,
How to Suzie Cue |
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Rip It Up 1956 (Lindy Hoppers and Bill Haley in 1956 movie Don't Knock the
Rock) |
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Your My Honey 1956 (Lindy Hoppers and furniture in Don't Knock the Rock) |
| Lindy Hop at the
Imperial Club in St. Louis 1959 (St. Louis "Imperial" style) |
| Rhythm
Hot Shots 1994 - the great Lindy Hop troupe from Stockholm, Sweden
performing at Can't Top The Lindy Hop in New York City (the poor quality of
the video posted here does not do justice to the performance) |
| Gap Lindy
Hop Commercial ("Khaki Swing") 1998 |
| Blast
from the Past 1999 - the Swing (Lindy Hop) scene from the movie |
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Mulholland Drive 2001 (Lindy Hop scene at the start of the movie) |
| Rock
Rebels Roll 2006? (Lindy Hop dancing with the Rockabilly band The Rebels) |
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Idlewild 2006 (movie trailer - the air steps where the women go up in the
air are among the Lindy Hop dancing shown in the film) |
Richard Powers
| Richard
Powers the internationally known historian and teacher of American
and European social dance at Stanford University in California |
Websites with dance calendars for Toronto
Some out of town Lindy Hop groups and instructors
Some out of town Waltz groups
Radio we like
| Jazz fm 91.1 Toronto |
Other Toronto dance websites
Miscellaneous
Non-dance recommendation:
Noam Chomsky, the world renowned American political analyst and linguist,
who's writings and lectures are excellent if you wish to understand what is
happening in the world and to see through the misrepresentations and propaganda
commonly presented by the mainstream media and governments.
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