alain’s dance blog

This week is Frankie Week. People from around the world are celebrating.

Marie N’Diaye and I are organizing two massive Shim Shams in Montreal. One on Friday night at the Cat’s Corner Downtown Stomp, and another on Sunday noon-time at Place Jacques-Cartier in Vieux Montreal. We will be bringing a banner and camera to film. If you have any questions, call me at 514-575-9025 or Marie at 514-995-3021. Rain or shine, we’ll be out to dance!

Check out the blog post by Fabienne Cabado from VOIR about our event.

You can also view some of the Shim Shams already posted on youtube:

Shimsham with Korean traditional song ‘Arirang’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcjNPMAqjs

Facultad de Derecho, Recoleta, Buenes Aires, Argentina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin_g4Lle8w

Dovercourt in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAmpTkr5YSE

Toronto in front of CN Tower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDV9WAMRhI

Kiev Swing Dance Club in Ukraine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKnKiuhJ1I

San Francisco in front of the Golden Gate bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7vvhFC1AqI

Shim Sham Seattle for Frankie’s 95th Birthday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNROkQHBK58

Shim Sham - Frankie Manning’s 95 Birthday - Seattle 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbObsFFlHU

at Cumberland Shuffle in Nashville/Murfreesboro, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwJy8svCM8

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMhmJpTq6Q

Fairfax, Virginia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Eb432NVfo

Mélanie Huot-Lavoie and I appear in the new book “The Festival Under the Stars” (Le Festival sous les étoiles) commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

We also show up alongside Zack Richard and Maryse Lebeau on the website as well. Very cool!

My dance partner Mélanie Huot-Lavoie is traveling to Seattle this summer. Stolen by Mike Faltesek and the cool Lindy Hoppers of the Emerald City.  Although I heard she’ll be back soon from her travels, I miss her!

We had some great times together, from performing at QSRV, CSC, ULHS and ALHC, to coming up with the initial draft of Stomp Stomp for our team the Northern Lights at ILHC. Mumu je t’aime!

This past May, Max Pitruzzella and I danced a showcase routine at CSC 2008. It was fun and interesting to work with him. Here’s the video.

Carl and I have been super busy at Lindybloggers and also traveling for dance events all around (the Albany Chill this weekend was sweet!), but I also wanted to note that I’ve been hard at work at Standout Jobs and Cat’s Corner as well. Version 2 at SOJ is shipping in early October, and we’re officially moved into our brand spanking new studio at Cat’s. And of course, I cannot miss mentioning the tenth anniversary.