About me: What we do
The Project's goal is to give people the joy of Lindy Hop by providing quality instruction to everyone we can get our hands on (well, whose hands we can get to hold the hands of a partner).
Lindy Hop is truly a community, in every sense of the word. Our classes are an effective way to become connected to a group of passionate, diverse friends in your town and across the globe. In fact, Austin is one of the healthiest, happiest, and friendliest Lindy Hop communities in the United States.
What is Lindy Hop?
Lindy Hop, a dance that evolved from the Charleston, is the originally swing dance, first popular in the 1930's. At first glance, it is an 8-count partnered dance. Upon closer examination, it is visually articulate, constantly evolving dance that gives back as much as you put into it. It offers dancers infinite flexibility in personal and musical expression.
Does anyone live in the Round Rock area (near the Dell Diamond) who'd like some company/gas money for the ride down to Austin this Thursday? I'm nice! I can banter on a number of subjects... like knees!
April 1 our record "Strange Invitation" is released nationally! We have an instore at Waterloo on April 1 @ 5pm, and the record release party is at Threadgills South on April 4. Hope you can make it out!
First, Will from Lamberts, the restaurant where The Jitterbug Vipers play every Tuesday (good dance floor), wants us to find out if there is an interest in dancers coming out on Tuesday if we star at 9:30 or 10:00 PM instead of 7 PM. If you are interested, let me know and I’ll tell Will and we’ll try it once on February 5 (Fat Tuesday). It will be posted on our Myspace site (http://www.myspace.com/jitterbugviper) or in my e-mails if it’s a go.
Second, a local video camera man and a local light man want to do a short, MTV type (sort of) video on The Jitterbug Vipers. They want to do it mainly to show what they can do. We’re not paying or getting paid. Time and place are still up in the air, but they definitely want some dancers in the video. It will be fun. The down side might be that you’ll be dancing over and over to the same tune and we’ll be lip-syncing it. The up side of course is that we’ll all be minor-stars in a darn good video and have a lot of fun making it happen. And we will probably keep going with some hot dace stuff after they get all the shots they want. If you are interested in being part of this, let me know. Please say yes.
Best wishes,
Slim Richey, guitarist for The Jitterbug Vipers. slim@slimrichey.com.
Anyone out there leaving for the houston fusion on that friday, or want to go with someone hit me up. Im still looking for someone to accompany me on the drive.
Heya Lindyproject-ers! I had my very first lesson (from you guys) on Wednesday and it was superfantastic!! Alllmost as fun as hoola-hoops and pixie stix. Lookin' forward to more dancin' with ya.
i used to swing back in the day pretty big but i never had a chance to get into Lindy. hit me up with the 411 and i'll come check it out sometime, thanks ...
