No age limits and no SHOES while in Europe!!

Michael Jagger and I taught at Glenmont Elementary School this entire week, teaching students from Kindergarden all through 5th grade, how to do the "Big Apple" and the "Shim Sham."  We are thrilled that kids so young are getting to learn about Frankie Manning, Lindy Hop and the history behind this important American art form.

Tap Dancing is the hardest thing I have ever performed, well that and singing.

Both require audible expressions of the "SELF".  I never thought of myself as a particularly eloquent speaker.  Maybe this is why the two art forms scare me so much.  Maybe I'm afraid of what I might say.

The New York Swing Dance Society
Nathan and I perform our very popular routine
"That's How Rhythm Was Born"

Photos from the International Lindy Hop Championships 2009

Photos from the International Lindy Hop Championships 2009

Photos taken of the competitions and performances at the International Lindy Hop Championships in Washington DC, in August 2009:







 



The Killer Dillers did really well in the competitions. Here are all the prizes we won:

1st Place Team Division
1st place Charleston: Juan Villafane
2nd place Charleston: Nathan Bugh (that's me)
3rd place Charleston: Jo Hoffberg
Filling out the rest of the Charleston finals: Evita Arce, Kevin St Laurent & Sharon Davis (ie: all the rest of the Killer Dillers)
1st place Cabaret: Evita Arce & Mike Jagger
3rd place Cabaret: Kevin St Laurent, Juan Villafane & myself