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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, [...]


Cross Club

Last night Robin and I went to the Cross Club for some swing dancing.  Due to some inconveniences and poor planning we didn’t make it there until 10:30, which apparently was too late as all but two of the swing dancers had left already.  The club was awesome though.  It has two floors with a [...]


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 [...]


Burlesque

Weekends of Swing are quite fantastic. This time I went in feeling fairly tired and wanting more solo Jo-time, but as soon as I was around the energy and excitement I was happy to be there. Our instructors, Sharon & Juan, were fabulous. Full of charisma, dancing skill, and entertaining anecdotes. On the Sunday Sharon [...]