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Socks (a.k.a. Swing Toronto) Homepage! We are friendly and experienced producers of
dance events in Toronto, including
Saturday Night Live Band Swing and special event dance weekends with
some of the world's best partner dance teachers. |
Midori & Chad of New York City doing 1920s style
Charleston - they are coming to Toronto September 19-20-21, 2008 to teach Lindy Hop,
Charleston, Peabody, Blues, and Tango meets Blues & Lindy Hop!!! |
Saturday Night Live Band Swing
Come to
Mostly Waltz
- a new Toronto dance series featuring excellent live and DJ'd music
great for waltzes and other partner dances!
Midori & Chad Lindy Hop, Peabody, Charleston & Blues
Weekend September 19-20-21, 2008, Toronto!!! Based in New
York City Midori & Chad are two of the best teachers anywhere.
They won the Fast Dance Division of the American Lindy Hop
Championships in 2004 with a Peabody and Charleston performance, and
are the directors of the Swing Dance Program at New York City's Sandra
Cameron Dance School (the same school where Frankie Manning teaches).
Ramona Staffeld LIndy Hop Weekend November 21-22-23,
2008, Toronto!!! Former World Lindy Hop Champion Ramona
Staffeld is one of the most highly regarded Lindy Hop teachers and
follows in the world.
Stay tuned for more upcoming dance weekends and
special dance workshops. In particular, we hope that Mike
Faltesek, Andy Reid, and Natalie Gomes, three of the world's most
remarkable Lindy Hop teachers and dancers will be giving weekends in
Toronto within the next year or so. |
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Swing |
Waltz
Lessons |
Richard Powers & Angela Amarillas. Based in
California, Richard is an internationally renowned
Stanford University teacher and historian of American and European social
dance.
He is coming to Toronto April 4-5-6, 2008!!! |
Come to
Saturday Night Live Band Swing at Dovercourt House
featuring some of the best live swing bands anywhere, excellent beginner
dance lessons, and more! Everyone welcome. Big sprung wood dance
floors, charming dance halls, licensed! |
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We teach and do what we consider to be the
best and most fun Waltz styles in history from the early 1800s to new
developments happening today. Contact us for private lessons in waltz. |
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| Film clips of Lindy Hop, Charleston and
Peabody:
Let's Make
Music featuring Dean Collins & Jewel McGowan 1939/40 (Lindy Hop),
Ghost
Catchers 1944 (Lindy Hop), Caitlin & Peter 2005
(Lindy Hop),
Chad &
Midori 2004 (Peabody & Charleston),
Swing Me
Brother Swing with Natalie & Yuval 2004 (Lindy Hop),
Hot
Chocolates featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and Duke Ellington 1941 (Lindy
Hop),
Mulholland
Drive 2001 (Lindy Hop scene at the start of the movie),
Hellzapoppin' 1942 featuring Whitey's Lindy
Hoppers (Lindy Hop),
Groovie Movie 1943/1944 (Lindy Hop),
Rip It Up
1956 (Lindy Hop),
Candyman
music video 2006 (Lindy Hop),
Savoy Ballroom Tribute put together 2006 (slow to load). For more film and video footage of Lindy Hop and related dances
from 1914 to the present see Lindy Hop Film and Video Footage at the Dance Links page. (Click on
the Dance Links button to your left.) Film footage
of waltz and polka social dancing: Social dancing at Gaskells Balls in
Oakland, California -
Polka
(October 2005),
Waltz (October 2005),
Waltz (December 2006);
Social
Dance Irregulars Ball in 2003 in Pasdena, California;
Viennese
Waltz outdoors in front of Stanford Memorial Church, California (2006). |
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