Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the swing category.

Weekend of Swing

This weekend Swing Dance Calgary hosted a workshop with Lucy and Leo from Vancouver. It was great to spend an entire 2 days dancing and getting inspired. Also exhausting, and I can feel it in my right shoulder and legs. Happy that underemployment also means getting to spend Monday at home recovering.


SDC Performance Shoot

On Monday Swing Dance Calgary decided to do an informal photo shoot of the performance team.  SDC is in need of some new promotional material, and therefore is in need of some new and inspirational photos.  I took 500 photos and have slowly been going through deleting the obviously bad ones.  After one run through, [...]


Herräng

2 weeks in Herräng, Sweden and: I have learned cool new lindy hop moves from a variety of amazing (and sometimes not amazing) instructors I have met fun people from all over the world I have stayed in an amazingly placed accommodation, right in the middle of everything, and have a convenient couch on my [...]


Moo!

My Moo mini cards arrived today!  All 100 for my handing out pleasure.  My dad figures I’ll use them up in Sweden at Herrang.  This is a definite possibility, but if it leads to connections to free accommodation for the rest of the trip then I’d say they were well used *crosses fingers*.


Louis Tribute

We drove up to Carstairs to listen and dance to a Louis Armstrong Tribute band. Three of the musicians are part of the Polyjesters, a local “ka-chunk” band that we had the opportunity to see during JunoFest, and who we saw as much as possible during last years Folk Fest. It was a super fun [...]