Lindy Hop Swing Dancing

    ... in Hampton Roads Virginia

shoes

Ya put your right foot in...


My Richmond friends put their best feet forward at a fine swing soirée in the capitol city. I got my start in swing and lindy up in Richmond and I'm so happy to see it catching on down here in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Newport News etc area. We've had a solid swing scene for some time, but now lindy's catching on as well and there are a lot more dancing opportunities here than there have ever been (even during the swing "boom"). We've got a little hollywood, we've got a little savoy, and today I'm watching Steven Mitchell jazz style tapes so who knows what's next ;)

Links:

keithnrobin

Local Info:

So, there's so much cool stuff going on that I'm too lazy to update it all the time on this website. Just go directly to our mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Swing_HamptonRoads/ You can read all the archived messages without joining the group. If you'd like to post, or receive the messages automatically, get a yahoo ID and follow the directions to join the group. You can also email me directly at mwsmith2@erols.com and I can add you instantly thru my magical divine powers as group owner :)


Info for Cities within Driving Distance:

For Richmond check out:
http://www.capitolswing.com/ (where I stole all the images for this site, thanks Heath!) and,
http://www.thedancespace.com/

For DC (ya gotta go at least once, the dancing is amazing!) try:
http://www.jitterbuzz.com/ and
http://www.gottaswing.com/
...both have schedules of happenin' events and lots of good reference material on "lindy hop"

And, oh yeah, if you were wondering about me, Mike, here's a picture of my good side at the Richmond Indigo Swing show... I gotta start taking my own pictures. Also, you can read a brief and slighty outdated autobiographical tidbit here.

...remember, "'tain't whatcha do..." (It's the way that ya do it!)

Complaints or comments? mwsmith2@erols.com