Pet Peeve: Mediocre Dancers
What makes a great dancer great is their constant quest for self-improvement, their desire to push the limits of their dancing. I believe that awareness of or searches for weakness and a constant...
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Quick Poll: If you could improve 1 thing…
I’ve been thinking about being a positive influence in my dance scene this past year. Quite honestly, it keeps me up at night and I wake up with all these ideas stirring in my head. So now my question...
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Quick Poll 2: Action
Wow. The first poll definitely caught me by surprise in terms of how much everyone really cares about their respective scene. While I might not agree with some of the view points shared, the best...
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Celebrating Small Wins
Something I am trying to work on for myself this year is to continually celebrate small wins when it comes to dance, dance organization, and dance photography. Sometimes when I think of the monumental...
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Being a Taxi Dancer is kind of Awkward
Which picture doesn’t fit? I’ll give you one guess. Last Saturday, Toronto and Dovercourt House held a fundraiser for the Frankie Fund (or was it the Frankie headstone?) in celebration of the joy...
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Guest Blog Post: Brian Gottheil’s Ottawa Swing Experience
So after the University of Toronto’s swing dance club’s beer and chicken wings night out, I had a great discussion with Alex M, Kathleen, and Brian G from Ottawa (previously somewhere not Ottawa)...
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Students Don’t Need Convincing
(Thanks Kevin Sue for the picture. Note: this picture is not a picture from the lindy hop class). Tomorrow will be the last class I will be filling in for Bees Knees beginner lindy hop class on Monday...
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Things to Work on After BluesShout 2011
Big dance events, especially big competition dance events have drama all their own, and while BluesShout 2011 at times seemed to be a whirlwind exercise of mental fortitude, I came out of BluesShout...
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Last Week I Worked On
I’m trying this new thing where instead of saying to myself that I will be working on dance/photography/life related things, I will just recap things I have actually done. I find that listing out...
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Two Years On…
Me and the famous Caroline Rossi during an invitational jack and jill at the rialto. I tripped her. haha oops :( I just realized the other day it has been two full years since I moved to Montréal!...
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