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ULHS 2009 Videos: The Fun Stuff

Here are some random miscellaneous various clips that people have put up to give you a little flavor of the sights and sounds of ULHS 2009. Baseball game between Musicians and Dancers

Chazz Young leads the Shim Sham at House of Blues

Tap & Craziness at the Wax museum

Meschiya Lake sings Backyard Blues with Luke Winslow King

Sister Kate & Friends

This Little Light of Mine - Preservation Hall Jazz Band

The Loose Marbles

Street Swing Dance Contest

Preliminary Round

Finals

tags: ULHS, lindy hop
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Sunday 11.01.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
Comments: 1
 

ALHC Results & Other Contest Notes

Many people will be suprised to discover that The American Lindy Hop Championships took place last weekend.  In case the suspense was killing you, results are online.

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tags: ALHC, Camp Hollywood, ILHC, ULHS, lindy hop
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Saturday 10.31.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
 

ULHS 2009 Videos: Sunday Evening Competitions

Solo Blues Music played by:  The Loose Marbles

Preliminary Round

Final

Dancers in order of appearance:

  1. Dax Hock
  2. Nikki Marvin
  3. Sara Deckard
  4. ???  (Anyone know?)

Slow Swing and Blues

Music played by:  The Washboard Chazz Blue Trio

Preliminary Round Heat 1

Preliminary Round Heat 2

Final

Dancers in order of appearance

  1. Michale Darigol & Sara Deckard
  2. Giselle Anguizola & Chance Bushman
  3. Tommy Blacharz & Annie Trudeau
  4. Todd Yannacone & Alice Mei
  5. Ramona Staffeld & Peter Strom

Winners:  Ramona Staffeld & Peter Strom

tags: ULHS
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Saturday 10.31.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
 

ULHS 2009 Videos: Saturday Evening Competitions-Solo Jazz and J & J

All contests music by Uncle Jack's New Orleans Dance Orchestra. Solo Jazz

Preliminary Round

Final

Dancers in order of appearance

  1. Hurley François
  2. Vincenzo Fesi
  3. Sarah Decker
  4. Jana Grulichova
  5. Bobby Bonsey
  6. Ramona Staffeld

Winner:  Ramona Staffeld

Jack n Jill: A Social Dance Contest

Semi-finals

Heat 1

Heat 2

Alternate angles of both songs from heat 2 can be found here and here.

Final

Dancers in order of appearance:

  1. Todd Yannacone & Annie Trudeau
  2. Vincenzo Fesi & Alice Mei
  3. Sarah Decker & Dax Hock
  4. Ramona Staffeld & Chance Bushman
  5. Ria DiBiase & Tommy Blacharz

Winners:   Vincenzo Fesi & Alice Mei

tags: ULHS
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Monday 10.26.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
 

ULHS 2009 Videos-Friday Choreography Showcase

The Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown Choreography Showcase Live music for all performance provided by a special band put together for ULHS, appropriately known as the Ultimate Lindy Hop Combo.

All performers had to submit a sample of their music and a video of their performance about a month before the event to give the musicians time to create and rehearse a complimentary arrangement. All performers were given time to rehearse with the musicians on Thursday and Friday of the event.

Winners:  Groove Juice Special

Cats In The Corner

Laura Glaess & Mike Roberts

Sister Kate

Alain Wong & Marie N'diaye

Philly Bloomers

tags: ULHS, lindy hop
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Monday 10.26.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
 

ULHS 2009 Videos: Battle Footage

Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown: A Lindy Hop Battle This year The Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown lived up to its name by adopting a tournament style format, whittling down couples until there was only one left.

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tags: ULHS, lindy hop
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Friday 10.23.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
 

ULHS 2009 Round Up

Still no official results posted on the ULHS website, but Breanna Perry was kind enough to post what she could remember in the comments of my previous post.

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tags: Blues Dance, Charleston, ULHS, lindy hop
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Wednesday 10.21.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
Comments: 1
 

Random Videos: Non-ULHS French Dancing and All Girl Bal music

Still no word on official ULHS results.  Some more videos are making it online.  I'll post the better quality ones together later this week or next. While we're  waiting on that stuff, apparently not all the action was in New Orleans this past weekend.  Here's a quick round up of performance videos from Provence Swing Festival in France.

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tags: balboa, Carla Heiney, ILHC, Jeremy Otth, Juan Villafane, Laura Keat, Maryse Lebeau, Nick Williams, ULHS, Zack, Zack Richard, lindy hop
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Wednesday 10.14.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
Comments: 3
 

Random News, Bboy Videos & a note about AIR

I know quite a few people heading down to New Orleans for the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown this weekend.  For those of us who can't go, Slick Rik posted news on his blog that NOLA.com will be streaming live video of the Saturday night dance and contests on their website.   If we're lucky, they'll also have it available for viewing afterwards too.  Don't worry, I'll keep an eye out for you. For those of you wondering when the next installment of "Artistry in Rhythm" is going up, you may have to wait a little longer.   As you may know, I wrote it two years ago, and up until this point I've been posting it with minor edits.   A little over half of it has been posted, but now I've hit a point that needs to be updated and re-written.   I'm going to try to get it up by Friday, but if not, I'll work on it during the long weekend while everyone else I know is partying it up at ULHS.

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tags: JabbaWockeeZ, Phillipine All Stars, ULHS
categories: Video and Link Highlights
Thursday 10.08.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
Comments: 3
 

Frankie Manning Soul Session at Lindyfest 2009

This is a pretty nice set of clips from one of Frankie Manning's last public appearances.  It's the Soul Session at Lindyfest which was held last March in Houston, TX, and hosted by the Houston Swing Dance Society.  He would pass away a little over a month later. Here, Frankie shares a few tid bits and jokes about some of his favorite dance clips.

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categories: Video and Link Highlights
Thursday 09.24.09
Posted by Jerry Almonte
Comments: 1
 
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