Tribute Dances by Lindy Hoppers
The Lindy Hop world tends to favor dancers creating their own choreography, but sometimes it’s appropriate to honor our forebears with a tribute dance. A few of these have caught …
Favorite Pics from Rocktober 2009
It was so fun taking pictures at Rocktober 2009. I smiled so hard my cheeks hurt. We have tons of pictures of people in deep thought, people laughing at Kevin …
Dancers + Hot Jazzers = Stayin’ Alive!
When swing dancing came back into vogue in the late 1990s, it grew in great part out of the popularity of ska and rockabilly, which was on the rise nationally …
May 25 is National Tap Dance Day!
May 25 is National TapDance Day in the US, and the date is significant because it’s the birthday of Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson. You can read more about this on Dance …
Using Dance to Teach Kids Healthy Living
Balletmet Columbus’s blog, ‘A Tutu For You’ featured their Momentum program they present in area elementary schools that uses dance to teach concepts of healthy living and culminates in a …
Ready for SMACKDOWN?
Tonight’s the last night of preparations for two Columbus dance teams in preparation for the big Midwest swing dance team competition, Dayton Swing SMACKDOWN! It all goes down this Saturday, …
Gift Ideas for Lindy Hoppers
When I started swing dancing in 2001, it was quite hard to find much in the way of products for swing dancers. Now there are tons of things out there …
Getting ready for Fall Quarter!
For those of you who do not know me, allow me to introduce myself: I’m Rob, the President of Swing Dance Club. Swing Dance Club is an awesome little group …
Team SwingColumbus’ 1st place performance Smackdown
Thanks to Travis in Dayton we were finally able to get a hold of the video from our 1st place performance at the Dayton Swing Smackdown competition in Feb. 2009. …
Adventurers in Website Design – Introduction
Well, it was a very, very, very long time coming but the new SwingColumbus.com is up and viewable to every corner of the interweb. There had been talk about updating …