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Learn Swing dancing with Patrick and Natasha

Natasha performed with the Ninjammerz at the Caravan Palace concert during the Montreal International Jazz Festival !

It was pretty amazing to see 50.000 people in front of the stage :)

Yes, that’s right, we’re done filming and uploading to Youtube the full routine with the counts and the individual instructional videos of the Big Apple routine :)

As usual, you can access the individual instructional videos from the full routine by clicking on the annotations.

You can also check out the Big Apple routine danced by the Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in the movie “Keep Punching”

Enjoy and feel free to leave comments and rate the videos…

Patrick & Natasha

Résumé des cours d’acrobaties du stage à Grenoble en avril 2010

“petit” résumé du cours d’introduction au Balboa du stage à Grenoble en avril 2010.

Ceci est la vidéo récapitulative du cours d’introduction au Collegiate Shag du stage à grenoble en avril 2010.

Voici la vidéo récapitulative du cours de Jazz Roots du stage à Grenoble le 24 avril 2010.

La musique est “Jump Through The Window” par Roy Eldridge

Since so many people asked us for instructionnal videos of the Shim Sham filmed from the back, we’ve decided to make them :)

The Shim Sham danced to the music (T’aint What You Do by Jimmie Lunceford).

The Shim Sham danced to the music (Tuxedo Junction by Erskine Hawkins) with the counts.

The Shim Sham danced to the music (Tuxedo Junction by Erskine Hawkins) with the steps.

Enjoy and please leave us comments and rating if you like our videos.

Patrick & Natasha

This is the video recap of the Swingo class we gave at Lindy Focus VIII.

This is the video recap of the Collegiate Shag Crash Course Natasha and I gave at Lindy Focus VIII.

No, the California Routine is not just 3 Swing Outs and a Cirle :)

Once again, we’ve decided to go with a real classic piece of the Swing community.

The California Routine was choreographed by Frankie Manning for the Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. You can see an early version of the routine in the video Spirit Moves

We present here a version that we most often use when the occasion arises. It might vary from other versions that you may come across.

You’ll find individual instructional videos of the moves by clicking on the names during the video

What do you think of this video? Do you dance it differently? Feel free to send us feedback and to comment on the videos.

Patrick & Natasha