Here are links to instructional videos and local and national dance calendars. Start dancing and soon you'll have friends all over the country!
Go to Lilli Ann's YouTube Channel for Dance for Joy! Dance Instruction Videos!
Dance in Seattle
- Century Ballroom
- Ron Bolin Dance Calendar (once there, scroll down for calendar)
Other Dance Instruction in Seattle
- Educated Feet — Dance instruction on Bainbridge Island with Sheila Phillips
- Left Foot Boogie — Dance instruction in Swing, Salsa and Waltz with Jodi Fleischman
- Northwest Dance Network — Quality social dance instruction and dance events
Swing
- HepCat Productions — Swing dance classes with former American Lindy Hop champion Chris Chapman
- HepJen.com — Former Seattle-ite turned San Francisco-ite HepJen's short list of Seattle Swing dances
- Savoy Swing Club — Non-profit dedicated to Lindyhop and Balboa dances and instruction
- Seattle Swing Dance Club — West Coast Swing dances, classes and workshops
Tango and Salsa
- Michelle Badion — Tango and Salsa
- Sueños de Salsa — Salsa & Bachata calendar
- Tango Calendar
- And if you want to know more about Tango, here's a Tango overview link supplied by students in Rachel Martin's class.
Cajun & Zydeco
- Sean Donovan’s Seattle ZEN Calendar — sign up for his weekly e-mail calendar
- Cascade Zydeco, Portland — Dances, workshops, an excellent annual Zydeco dance camp and coordinators of the Zydeco stage at the Safeway Blues Fest in Portland
Waltz on the West Coast
- Waltz Etcetera — Monday night dances in north Seattle.
- PortlandDanceEclectic.com — Sunday brunch dances in Portland
- Friday Night Waltz — Waltzing in Alameda/San Francisco
- Social Dance at Stanford University — Dancing in Palo Alto, including Waltz Week and Waltz Weekend
Dance on the East Coast
Events
- Safeway Blues Festival, Portland, Oregon — tons of Blues, and a Zydeco stage hosted by Cascade Zydeco
- Folklife Festival, Seattle — Every kind of music for every kind of taste
- Jazzfest, New Orleans, Louisiana — Better music per square inch than anywhere else, and great food, too
Dance for Joy! Dance Instruction Videos
Swing History and Videos
- What they were saying — slang of the 1920s
ocal.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm - History
streetswing.com/histmain/z3ecs1.htm — "East-Coast Swing" vs. "Lindy/Jitterbug"
mixedpickles.org/20cdance.html — early 20th Century dance
mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html — Jazz-age dancing
- Fun video with vintage style Swing
Ondřej Havelka — Beat me, daddy - Balboa
Alex & Julia dance Balboa 2006 Russia - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers play Vernon and Irene Castle
Castle Walk - Sugar Sullivan and Lindy Hop
Sugar Sullivan dancing at the Savoy Ballroom - 1920's Charleston
1920's The Charleston
The Charleston from "It's a Wonderful Life" - 30's Lindy Hop
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the Big Apple - 40's Lindy Dance
Lindy dance from the movie "Hellapoppin'" (1941) - Astaire and Rogers
Ginger Rogers — Charleston Scene from Roxie Hart (1942)
Swing Time — Rogers & Astaire
Too Hot to Handle — Astaire & Rogers - 50's Lindy Hoppers
Bill Haley & the Comets (with aerials, which we don't teach...)