alain’s dance blog

Google ran a contest last month in order to build a collaborative video through Youtube for Gmail. The idea was to pass the Gmail logo (an M envelope) in a creative way through video. Ann and I submitted a video of us swinging out with the envelope, and guess what? We made it onto the final cut!

Gmail: Behind the Scenes (Final Cut)
A compilation of clips submitted by Gmail fans as part of our collaborative video project. Selected from over 1,100 clips from fans in more than 65 countries. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/mvideoThank you to Etienne for filming it!

From Season 2 of So you think you can dance. Dmitry & Donyelle learning and dancing the Lindy Hop.

A lot of students have asked me about the different dances, so I’ll let the videos speak for themselves. Here are some solo jazz dances: Black Bottom, Charleston, Blues.

Josephine Baker

Jojo Jackson dancing the Black Bottom at Rocky Mountain Girl Jam 2007 Sharon Davies and Max Pitruzzella battling in a solo Charleston dance-off at Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown 2006 Mike Faltesek performing solo Blues at SoCal Blues 2006

Class review for our 4th week of Intro to Swing at Cat’s Corner. The slower song is “I’ve heard that song before” by Harry James on Trumpet Blues and the second/faster song is “Viper’s Moan” by Willie Bryant.

The Swing ConneXion team (with dancers from Cat’s Corner) doing a routine to Bugle Call Rag at the Canadian Swing Championships in May 2007. We won first place.

Dancers: Zack Richard and Maryse Lebeau, Carl Nelson and Geneviève Doyon, Eric Bertrand and Sylwia Bielec, Benoît Laforest and Ann Mony, Alain Wong and Mélanie Huot-Lavoie

You can buy the official CSC 2007 dvd at http://www.swinginmontreal.com/csc/