Sylvia Sykes (USA)

Lindy hop, Balboa.
www.sylviasykes.com

 

SKYE (USA)

Lindy hop.
Skye Humphries

ULHS 2007 -
Couples Performance - Skye & Frida

 

Hanna (Sweden)

Mattias (Sweden)

Lindy hop, Original Jazz.

Lindy hop
Hanna Zetterman  MattMattias Lundmark

Hanna and Mattias Lindy Hop in Christchurch

 

Naomi (usa)

Original Jazz, Lindy hop.
Naomi Uyama Naomi didn't realize swing dancing still existed until one night in late 1997, she attended a dance in her hometown of Washington DC, witnessed her first jam, and was instantly hooked. Over the past nine years she has studied vernacular jazz dance as an historic treasure while pursuing it as a living art form.
She has taught workshops around the world, and performed for dance and music legends alike. She is also one of the co-founders of the Jam Cellar, one of the most popular swing dance venues in Washington, DC and a member of the international dance team 'the Silver Shadows'.
Most recently Naomi won champion titles at the American Lindy Hop Championships and US Open Swing Dance Championships with her partner Todd Yannacone for the second year in a row (check the list below).

 

Competition Awards

(ALHC stands for American Lindy Hop Championships and ULHS stands for Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown).

Solo Awards

Couple Awards

  • 2007 ALHC: Showcase - 2nd place (with Todd).
  • 2007 Rhythmic Arts Festival: Lindy Hop Champion (with Todd).
  • 2007 Rhythmic Arts Festival: Slow Dance/Blues - Champion (with Peter Strom).
  • 2006 ALHC: Showcase - Champion (with Todd).
  • 2006 ULHS: Revolution (Mid Tempo) - 2nd Place (with Todd).
  • 2006 ULHS: Lindy Hop Performance - 2nd Place (with Todd).
  • 2006 US Open: Strictly Lindy - Champion (with Todd).
  • 2006 Rhythmic Arts Festival: Lindy Hop - Champion (with Todd).
  • 2006 Rhythmic Arts Festival: Slow Dance/Blues - 2nd place (with Skye).
  • 2005 ALHC: Showcase Champion (with Todd).
  • 2005 ULHS Liberation (Fast Division) - 1st (with Todd).
  • 2005 ULHS: Freedom (Slow Division) - 1st (with Skye).
  • 2005 ULHS: Mid-Tempo - 1st (with Todd).
  • 2005 ULHS: Lindy Hop Performance - 2nd (with Todd).
  • 2005 US Open: Strictly Lindy - Champion (with Todd).

Team Awards

  • 2006 ULHS Team Champion (with Silver Shadows).
  • 2005 ULHS Team - Champion (as part of  Silver Shadows).

Check this performance.

 

Teaching experience

Naomi has taught in Sweden, France, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Norway, Russia, England, and all over the United States for the past 10 years.

Particularly relevant is her teaching experience for few years at Stompology (an entire solo weekend) in USA and her classes in the Authentic Jazz track in Herrang 2007.

In barSWINGona'08 Naomi will teach "Basics", "Body Isolations", "Solo blues", "Improvisation skills" and a "Hot Club Chorus Girls". See the WORKSHOPS section for a detailed description of these topics.

 

Els temes dels tallers d'ORIGINAL JAZZ la Naomi.
"Revisa el teu Basic" Els lindy hoppers sovint aprenen passos com a part d'una coreografia. Agafa els passos bàsics i personalitzals a base d'afegir/canviar el "timing i estil.
"Body Isolations" Desperta muscles que ni savies que tenies. Ens agafarem el temps per treballar pas a pas cada moviment individual i així millorar el moviment del general.
Coreografia de "blues" individual. Es treballarà una coreografia plena de moviments que funcionene de maravella quan la música és lenta i sexy.
Habilitats per Improvitzar. Pots saver molts passos però de que serveixen si no els pots fer servir per ballar a les festes. En aquesta classe ballarem a través d'exercicis i "truquis" que aguditzen les teves capacitats d'improvització.

"Hot Club Chorus Girls"

 En aquest tallers es treballarà, en vàries classes, una coreografia divertida i energètica inspirada en els cossos de ball de noies dels clubs dels primeres dècades del segle XX.  Femenina i canyera al mateix temps, aquesta coreografia es mostrarà com a show en la festa final del festival.

 

 

Carolene (United Kingdom)

Original Jazz for Followers.
Carolene Hinds

Durant els darrers 21 anys com a ballarina i coreògrafa professional la Carolene ha viatjat per tot el món donant classes i fent exhibicions amb la companyia Jiving Lindy Hoppers (London, UK).
Her performance work has taken her on tours of Japan, Europe and 2 coast-to-coast tours of the U.S.A. with literally 1000’s of performances under her belt.  Her educational work has taken her throughout the UK and as far a field as Brazil.  She has worked with many of the greats from the world of Lindy Hop and Jazz Dance including Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, George & Sugar Sullivan, Mama Lou Parks, Pepsi Bethel and Chazz Young to name but a few.

Since stepping down as artistic director of JLH she has had the opportunity to rediscover other elements of her dance background which include training in contemporary dance and Dunham technique and has explored the many aspects of dance that fall within the Authentic Jazz Dance tradition training with original artists. Theatre choreography includes Ain’t Misbehavin ( Sheffield Crucible) and Carmen Jones (Old Vic) A Little Simply Heavenly (Young Vic) and Kismet (Arcola Theatre) in the UK. Her choreography has seen her venture into the world of pop videos and film credits include ‘Chicago Joe and The Showgirl’ and ‘Wondrous Oblivion’ which feature dance sequences.

She has presented for the BBC Television and also on Radio.

Carolene's ORIGINAL JAZZ for Followers workshops
Ets una "follower" fantàstica ?
Segueixes super be però sembla que siguis invisible ?
Agafa el comandament i posa-hi teca. Des del "Shorty George" al "Suzi Q" aprofita cada oportunitat per mostar el que pots fer, el que saps ballar.

Vine i descobreix els ritmes i el moviment en el swing posant-hi passos dins la tradició del Authentic Jazz Dance i descobreix com incorporar aquests passos en els teus balls de lindy.

 

 

Nick (usa)

Lindy hop, Balboa.
Nick Williams

Instructor Jam -
Nick Williams and Sylvia Sykes

 

 

Laia (Catalonia)

Lindy hop.
Laia Fauró

 

ANNE-HELENE AND BERNARD (FRance)

Balboa.

ANNE-HELENE AND BERNARD

 

Lluís (Catalonia)

Balboa.
Lluís Vila