Dance Teaching

In this post, I’d like to take a break from talking about the routines and move toward talking about how I approach organizing a team. While there is no right or wrong way, I’ll share a few anecdotes and approaches…

In the last 4 installments, we’ve talked about some big, flashy routines, where we develop our extension, our vocabulary, and our stage usage. There are other sides to dancing that we should be working on as well… namely control, accuracy,…

In our next installment, I’d like to talk about the California Routine. So named because it was invented at the time Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers were in California, this has been one of the most learned and performed Lindy Hop routines…

In this installment, I’d like to do two things. First, I’d like to introduce a bit of solid, simple choreography done by Frankie Manning, known as the “Lindy Chorus”, and second I’d like to introduce some of the key concepts…

For the next installment of my series on running a swing dance team, I’d like to cover The Big Apple. The Big Apple is a standard among Lindy Hop dancers world-wide and is another routine choreographed by Frankie Manning. Although…

So you want to run a swing dance team? Speaking from almost 10 years of running dance teams, I’m going to try to offer a little advice and guidance for those of you who are new to the team concept….