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
Solo Blues Music played by: The Loose Marbles
Preliminary Round
Final
Dancers in order of appearance:
Preliminary Round Heat 2
Final
Dancers in order of appearance
Winners: Ramona Staffeld & Peter Strom
All contests music by Uncle Jack's New Orleans Dance Orchestra. Solo Jazz
Preliminary Round
Final
Dancers in order of appearance
Heat 2
Winners: Vincenzo Fesi & Alice Mei
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
