All the Dancing

Eastside Stomp, Suzie Q's, and the Rocket Butts. Other than work, that's what consumes all of my time and I'm not complaining! Along with that come's lots of shenanigans and weird photos. And we're getting weirder all the time. It's great. 

I honestly don't have much else to say right this moment, so enjoy the photo dump!

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I tried to get a normal photo with my new jumpsuit, but I don't think these guys know how to do "normal". ;)

Pre performance shenanigans.

This past Friday I was tired and wanted to go home, but these people surrounded me and wouldn't let me leave, so I did the next best thing.

Sunday practice schenanagans.

Kaleb got the new iPhone XS. Gotta break in that new camera with my classic pose.

Unexplainable things happen at Mox.

This is what happens when Katie isn't around: all of our water glasses are empty

I couldn't dance any more because my legs were killing me (I went bowling the day before and I was really feeling it on Friday), so Katie helped me out.

 Kaleb's foot vs my foot. There's a little bit of a size difference....

This is one of my favorite photos ever.

Instant photos with the Rocket Butts is always a good idea.

Eastside with these people is kinda the best.

Karen had the wonderful idea of welcoming Katie back from Paris with mustaches and French accents. 

Dancing with Blary

Power pose.

I don't know how I get my face to do these things, they just happen.

Go Get It || Greg Ruby & the Rhythm Runners

Do remember back in May that I got to be a part of the latest video for Greg Ruby and the Rhythm Runners during Camp Jitterbug? Well the video was released recently and I can't believe I haven't shared it until now! Talented musicians from across the country and lots of awesome Seattle dancers. What's not to love?!?

Camp Jitterbug 2017

This past weekend I got to attend my first Camp Jitterbug. Talk about exciting! Even though I only went to a few of the dances, I had such a fun time, and can't wait till next year when I can go for the whole weekend.

The event kicked off Friday night at Century Ballroom with Close Shave, which were awesome. One of the songs they played was Blue Skies, which is one of my all time favorites, so I was just standing at the edge of the room, watching everyone dance, and a huge grin on my face. 

That day was also the birthday of Frankie Manning, so during the first band break everyone did the shim-sham and later The Big Apple happened; that's a routine I wanna learn some time! The balboa finals happened that night, which were fun to watch.

I ended up staying till about 1am; I would had loved to stay till 2am, when the band ended, but I had been up since six that morning, so my body definitely wanted to go to bed at that point. 

Saturday afternoon they were filming some scenes with dancers for the upcoming Greg Ruby & the Rhythm Runners music video, which I got to be a part of. They filmed at Washington Hall, where they would be performing later that evening, and after getting shots of the band they had us do some social dancing and filmed us. I also ended up with a cool little part with Gordon, the trumpet player, which I'm not going to say more about so I don't spoil it! It was really warm out that day, in the low 80's, so between that, the lights for filming, and the dancing it was way to warm in that building! Totally worth it though.

Photo via Stefan Huynh

Photo via Jason Warner

A few hours later was the main dance with Greg Ruby & the Rhythm Runners. It. Was Awesome! So much great dancing, some amazing competition finals, the band killin' it, and just an all around awesome time. The Lindy Hop Social Finals were also on Saturday and oh. my. gosh. Everyone was killing it out on that floor! Especially Ariel. So dang good. And highly inspirational!

One of the coolest parts though was that the music the band was playing was originally written by Frank Waldron. Back in the 20's and 30's he wrote a music book, Syncopated Classics, which Greg Ruby arranged into the songs on the album of the same name and Washington Hall Stomp. And Frank Waldron wrote those songs just blocks away from Washington hall, so being able to dance to those songs in that venue was such a unique experience!

Seriously though. I didn't want the night to end.