Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown 2012: 1st Place!

Phew, Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown 2012 is over! What an amazing festival and championship, with all live New Orleans jazz, so good you want to dance your feet off! Congratulations to Amy Johnson for running another great festival. The competitions were hard work, but...

I’m a collector’s card!

Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown has commissioned Baseball-style collectors cards, featuring the winners from the 2011 championships. So I’m a collector’s card! How...

Swingin’ Festival Buenos Aires

Congratulations to my wonderful dance partner Juan Villafane, for his amazing festival this week in Buenos Aires. It was the inaugural Swingin’ Festival in Buenos Aires, and was a non-stop program of concerts, master classes and a spectacular theatre show...

National Jitterbug Championships 2012: 1st Place!

Here is our new Classic Lindy Hop routine, to Buddy Johnson’s song Shufflin’ & Rollin’! We performed it for the first time at Camp Hollywood in Los Angeles on 28th July 2012 in the Showcase division at the National Jitterbug Championships, and...

World Burlesque Games: 2nd Place in the World Female Crown!

Well, the World Burlesque Games are over, and what a spectacular week of burlesque. I really enjoyed all the shows I attended, and also loved meeting the lovely burlesque ladies from around the globe backstage. The results are in, and I didn’t quite take out the...