Swing by the Esplanade come Nov 1 for their annual da:ns Festival, where JAZZ INC will perform some Frankie Manning choreographies – Big Apple from “Keep Punching”, little seen Frankie’s “Tranky Doo” with a twist, the original tap and Frankie’s Shim sham – and inspired moves to Frankie’s favourite tune “Shiny Stockings”. The main programme is from 8pm onwards, including free classes and screening of some video clips. So come on down with your friends, and party to a live jazz band as well, as there will be social dancing opportunities
Do check out the other programmes in the flyer below!
It was an awesome camp, to say the least. Classes and dances at a beautiful venue in the middle of Bali, with nature all around, as well as parties to live bands in Ubud, representation from Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, UK, Sweden, USA, Switzerland, Canada, and the largest contingent – Singapore! If you missed out this year’s inaugural camp, you missed out on a milestone in the Asian Swing Scene. It was a great pleasure to teach and DJ at this great camp – thanks Cat, you did an amazing job organising everything, for the great classes and company of my fellow teachers, Hasse, Marie, Tim & Malou, and to all who showed up and supported the event to make it possible!
Here are some clips of the parites, 1st at the Lotus Cafe, with the amazing stage/backdrop, and then at the Jazz Cafe.
They filmed this in stockholm in 2006, over 2 nights from midnight till dawn, sometime in the summer. I was leaving stockholm on the night they started filming so I missed the chance to get on it! It’s one of my favourite songs by Koop, and I am glad they had swing dancing on it! Many familiar Stockholm swing dancers in the video including some of the ex- and current members from the Harlem Hot Shots, and of course many Swedish dancers. And was lucky enough to catch them spin a set in Singapore, I think, 2 years ago, at an outdoor event, and it was fab… of course, I swung out to the song.
